Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
January
18, 2009
HUMAN
RELATIONS SUNDAY
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(Please sign the attendance sheet in the pew pad. Please tear the
sheets out and place them in the offering plate after everyone in your pew has
signed in)
PRELUDE: Lighting of the Candles
WORDS OF GREETING:
God is Good – All the time
All the time- God is Good
SHARING OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS: Including birthdays and
Anniversaries
Following each joy, please respond:
For These gifts, We
thank you, God.
Following each concern, please
respond:
God, in your mercy,
Hear our prayer.
CHILDREN’S MOMENTS
*MORNING GREETINGS: Greet
those around you with handshakes or hugs and words of greeting or
joy.
*OPENING SONG: “We Are Climbing
Jacob's Ladder”
# 418 in your
Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on
us. As we gather in this place
Allow your Spirit to fill our
very being.
People: As we worship today, we remember our brothers
and sisters
Who are worshiping elsewhere
throughout the world.
Leader: Inspire each of us to work more faithfully
for Justice and dignity of
Life everywhere.
People: Awake in us the desire to seek you way of
serving you in the
World. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
tHE lORD’S PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS (Loose change for:
Caldwell Food Pantry)
*OFFERING
RESPONSE “Praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow” # 95 in your Hymnal
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Merciful God, you
provide us with so many opportunities to follow Jesus' teaching and to live as
modern-day disciples. We sometimes respond to your call with enumerable excuses
or unfounded worries. We confuse our spiritual longing with the need for
worldly objects. Yet these things provide only a false sense of security. As we
offer these financial resources, transform us so that we are stirred to hear
your call on our lives. We pray in the name of the Redeeming One, Jesus the
Christ. Amen.
A READING FROM THE BIBLE: John 1:43-51
ANTHEM: “I Will Lean into the
Potter’s Hand” Douglas Nolan
MESSAGE: “Figs For Thought”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: ”Make Me a
Servant”
#2176 in The
Faith We Sing songbook
*WORDS OF
PARTING
*PARTING
SONG: “Trees of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
8504 Caldwell Road,
Mukwonago, WI 53149
(800) 570-4440
www.CaldwellUMC.org
CaldwellUMC@earthlink.net
Pastor Grace
Baldridge’s Cell Phone (262) 751-0955
Secretary’s
Phone: (262) 662-0264
Ministers
All of us
Pastor Pastor
Grace Baldridge
Choir Director
Deanna Shimko-Herman
Greeters & Ushers Pete & Mariann Lukas
Reader Elouise
Benner
Dates
to Remember
January 19
Items due for bulletin
Pastor’s Day Off
January
20 2008 Annual Statistical Reports due
to Pastor
January 22 Church
Office Hours 9
AM- 12 PM
Choir Rehearsal 6:00 PM - 7:15PM
Bible Study
January 24
SHARE
Metro Districts United
Methodist Women’s Day Apart
First UMC, Waukesha 8:30 AM – 2:30 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Johnny & Sheryl
Hutchison
Reader Johnny
Hutchison
John
1:43-51
Jesus
Calls Philip and Nathanael
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found
Philip and said to him, ‘Follow me.’ Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of
Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, ‘We
have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus
son of Joseph from Nazareth.’ Nathanael said to him, ‘Can anything good
come out of Nazareth?’ Philip said to him, ‘Come and see.’ When
Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said of him, ‘Here is truly an Israelite
in whom there is no deceit!’ Nathanael asked him, ‘Where did you come to
know me?’ Jesus answered, ‘I saw you under the fig tree before Philip called
you.’ Nathanael replied, ‘Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the
King of Israel!’ Jesus answered, ‘Do you believe because I
told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than
these.’ And he said to him, ‘Very truly, I tell you,
you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending upon
the Son of Man.’
Eunice Drought Betty Sheady Stewart Mary Alice Rubach People of Cambodia Family of Dennis O. Carol Denise Traveling to see Family Bev Squires Tracy Bonnie Jill Mission efforts Eugene Saltzman Family Taylor and Family Family of Samantha People of India All Those Looking for Work Business and Economy Jolie Family of Mark All Who Are Grieving Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Bob Richardson January Birthdays & Anniversaries Julie Children’s Church Al Handy’s Aunt Helen New Job for Marilee Shut Ins Mabel Byron Elizabeth Stark Lois, Pastor’s Grandma Other Concerns Alverne Our troops overseas Family of Dorothy Schroeder David Hempen Lucille Craig Jaris Heidi Tracey Kevin Mattson Stewardship Bridget and Tom Reiter Bill Spires Chuck Herman
Other Concerns
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Daily Prayer
Please
use this guided prayer as a way to pray daily for the whole world.
Together,
let us pray
For the
people of this congregation…
For
those who suffer and those in trouble…
For the
concerns of this local community…
For the
world, it’s peoples, and it’s leaders…
For the
Church universal – it’s leaders, it’s members, and it’s mission
In communion with the saints…Amen