Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
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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
Gathering songs: "We Are
Called" #2172 TFWS
"More LIke You" #2167 TFWS #2077
You Alone Are Holy
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:
“Be Thou My
Vision" #451 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Trust in the Lord and do good.
People: May the Lord give
strength in the people!
Leader: O taste and see the Lord is good!
People: God is our refuge and strength. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS: Operation Christmas Child
*OFFERING RESPONSE "Now
Thank We All Our God"
verse 1 #102 in
your Hymnal
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Heavenly
Father, we often hear that children are a gift from God. Knowing that each
person is created with unique fingerprints and DNA, we are reminded that we,
too, are your gift to others. You have given us this gift of life and our many
possessions. During these offertory moments, we joyfully and faithfully return
this money that ultimately belongs to you. In the name of your son, Jesus
Christ, we pray. Amen.
A
ANTHEM: "We Are the Hands of Christ" John Parker, Joel Raney
MESSAGE: "Human
Family Values"
A SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION (Ushers
will alert the children that it is time for communion. The children will
receive communion together and then sit in the front pew)
Musical Setting
B Page #18
in your Hymnal
The Lord’s
Prayer # 895 in your Hymnal
Breaking the Bread
Giving the Bread and Cup
Communion
song [congregation and choir]: "One Bread, One
Body"
#620 in your Hymnal
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: "Together We Serve" #2175 in The Faith We Sing
*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 Replacement Needed
Reader Elouise Benner
Dates
to Remember
October
4, Bishop Lee
in
Shared Ministry Combined
Choirs Cantata
@ St. James UMC
October 5 Items due for
Bulletin
UMW Evening Meeting Group
October 7 UMW Meeting Day
Group
SPRC Meeting
C.A.R.E. Committee Meeting @
Mukwonago Library
Trustees Meeting
“Harry Potter & The Hallowed Word, adult study
@ Our Lord’s UMC
$10 registration fee
Finance Committee Meeting
October 8 Choir Rehearsal
October 9 Pastors Day off
Algoma UMC
October
10 Free Breakfast
Spring Prairie UMC
Annual
Holy Spirit Conference Kenwood UMC Milw.
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Steve and Carol Lohr
Reader Jane Craig
Mark
10:2-16
Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it
lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ He
answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ They said, ‘Moses allowed a man
to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ But Jesus said to them,
‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. But from the beginning of
creation, “God made them male and female.” “For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the
two shall become one flesh.” So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined
together, let no one separate.’
Then in the house the disciples asked him again about this
matter. He said to them,
‘Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits
adultery against her; and if
she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.’
Jesus
Blesses Little Children
People were bringing little children to him in order that
he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. But when Jesus saw this, he was
indignant and said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me; do not stop
them; for it is to such as these that the
.
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