Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
January 4,
2009 Epiphany 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.
*MORNING GREETINGS: Greet
those around you with handshakes or hugs and words of greeting or
joy.
*OPENING SONG:
“We Three Kings” #254 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Everlasting God, the radiance of faithful
souls, you brought us
Your light, and kings to the
brightness of your rising.
People: Fill the world with your glory, and show
yourself to all
The nations;
Leader: Through him who is the true light and the
bright and morning star,
People: Jesus Christ your Son our Lord, 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
Holy One, your light has come. Your
light shines
brightly in our humble lives. We place this offering upon your altar as an outpouring
of your light within us. Glory halleluiah! Amen.
A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Matthew 2:1-12
MESSAGE: Marilee Gloe
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: ”There’s a Song In The Air” #249 in your Hymnal
*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
Pianist Jane
Spires
Greeters & Ushers Steve and Carol Lohr
Reader Lucia Janke
Dates
to Remember
January 4
Special guest speaker: Marilee Gloe
No communion this Sunday
January
5 Evening Group UMW 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
January 7
UMW Noon Meeting
Finance Committee
Meeting 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Nurture and Membership
@
Mukwonago Library 6:30
PM
Trustees 7:30
PM - 8:30 PM
January
8 Church
Office Hours
Choir Rehearsal 6:00 PM -
7:15PM
January 10 Food
Pantry 8AM
-10:00 AM
Metro South District
UMW team
Meeting Wesley UMC
Kenosha 9 AM – 12:00 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Bob & Avy Weeks
Reader Bob Weeks
Matthew
2:1-12
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of
Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who
has been born king of the Jews? For we observed his star at its rising,
and have come to pay him homage.’ When
King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all
“And you, Bethlehem, in
the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who is to shepherd my people Israel.” ’
Then Herod secretly called for the wise men
and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared. Then he sent them to Bethlehem,
saying, ‘Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him,
bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.’ When they had heard the king,
they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its
rising, until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw that the star had
stopped, they were overwhelmed with joy. On entering the house, they saw
the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage. Then,
opening their treasure-chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense,
and myrrh. And having been warned
in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another
road.
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 This Christmas Season 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
Other Concerns
.
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