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December
13, 2009
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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 “A Time Will Come for
Singing” Dan Schutte, S.J.
See
insert
“Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness” #2120 in The Faith
We Sing
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
LIGHTING
OF THE ADVENT CANDLE
CHILDREN’S
MOMENTS
*MORNING
GREETINGS: Greet those around you with handshakes or
hugs and words of greeting or joy.
*OPENING SONG: “Word of God, Come
Down on Earth”
#182
in Your Hymnal
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
One:
In the advent seasons, when the past has fled, unasked, away
and there is nothing left to do but wait,
All: God, shelter us.
One: Be
our surrounding darkness;
All: be the fertile soil out of which hope springs
in due time.
One: In uncertain times, help us to greet the dawn and labor on,
love on, in faith awaiting your purpose hid in you
All: waiting to be born in due time. Amen
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS “Roof, Roof” (NPUMC
Roof Fund)
*OFFERING RESPONSE Praise God from whom all blessings flow;
praise God, all creatures high and low; Give thanks to God in love made known;
creator, Word and spirit, One.
*PRAYER
OF THANKSGIVING
Ever present God, you
taught us that night is far spent and the day is at hand. Grant that we may ever be found watching for
the coming of your Son. Save us from
undue love of the world, that we may wait with patient
hope for the day of the Lord, and so abide in him, that when he shall appear,
we may not be ashamed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
A
ANTHEM: “Tomorrow Shall Be My
Dancing Day”
Traditional English carol
1833, arr. Howard Helvey
MESSAGE: “Rethink Christmas, Part 3”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “The Spirit Sends Us Forth to Serve”
#2241
in The Faith We Sing
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG “King of
Kings” #2075 in The
Faith We Sing
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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 Janke family
Reader
Robert Dixon
Dates
to Remember
TODAY Shared Ministry Meeting, North Prairie
UMC 1:30 – 2:00 PM
Dec . 15 January newsletter
deadline
Dec. 16 Shared Ministry Staff meeting
11:00 AM
Dec. 17 Choir
rehearsal 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Dec. 18 Pastor’s Day off
Dec. 19 SHARE 8:00 – 10:00 AM
United Methodist Men 9:00 –
10:00 AM
Volunteers for next Sunday
Greeters Don & Diane Herron
Reader Diane Herron
Luke
3:7-18
John said to the crowds that came out to be
baptized by him, “You brood of vipers!
Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have
Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. Even now the ax is lying at the root of the
trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and
thrown into the fire.”
And the crowds asked him, “What then shoulf we
do?” In reply he said to them, “Whoever
has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do
likewise.” Even tax collectors came to
be baptized, and they asked him, “Teacher, what should we do?” He said to them, “Collect no more than the
amount prescribed for you.” Soldiers
also asked him, “And we, what should we do?”
He said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false
accusation, and be satisfied with your wages.”
As the people
were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts
concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, John answered all of them by
saying,”I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is
coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and
fire. His winnowing fork is in his hand,
to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the
chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
So, with many
other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people.
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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