Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

March 15, 2009 Third Sunday in Lent

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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

                       Prelude song:  “Ma Navu (How Beautiful)” arr Audrey Snyder

 

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. During this time the children leave the sanctuary with the Children’s Church Leaders.  Nursery is also available.

 

 

*OPENING SONG: “Change My Heart, O God”  #2152 in the Faith

                                                                             We Sing Songbook

*CALL TO WORSHIP: 

Leader:  O God, Our Guide and Guardian, you have led us apart

               From the busy world into the quiet of your house.

People: Grant us grace to worship you in Spirit and in truth,

               To the comfort of our souls. And the upbuilding of every

               Good purpose and holy desire.

Leader:  Enable up to do more perfectly the work to which you have called

              Us,that we may not fear the coming of night, when we shall resign

              Into your hands the tasks which you have committed to us.

People: So may we worship you not with our lips at this hour, but in

              Word and deed all the days of our lives; through Jesus Christ

              Our Savior.  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: School room Medicine

                                                                  Cabinet  Africa/Haiti)

 

*OFFERING RESPONSE   “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”  # 95 in your Hymnal

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

God of Grace, multiply these tithes and offerings so that this church's ministry and mission radically change lives and create new evangelism opportunities. We pray that these gifts may help all your children build a temple within their own body that brings honor and praise to you. In the name of Jesus who went to Calvary, we pray. Amen.

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE:  John 2:13-22

 

ANTHEM:  “More Love” arr Sid Davis

 

MESSAGE:  Stay In Love With God (1 of 3)

                                                                                                                                                 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

*CLOSING SONG:” Old Rugged Cross”

                                 #504 in your Hymnal

 

*WORDS OF PARTING

 

*PARTING SONG:  “Trees of the Field”

                                   #2279 in The Faith We Sing songbook 

 

 

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                                                                Dixon Family                     

Reader                                                                                 Robert Dixon                    

Dates to Remember

 

 March 15  Worship Committee Meeting                                                           9:00-10:00 AM

       

 March 16   Items due for March 22 bulletin

 

                    Meditation Labyrinth open from March 16-21st                    6:00 AM- 12:00 PM

 

 March 17  Interfaith Conf. Great Lakes Water Woes $10                         12:00 PM- 1:30PM

                  1342 N.  Astor St. Milwaukee

                                                                                                                                                       

 March 18  Babes with Bibles                                                                                      11:30 AM

                   Ecumenical Taize Service Caldwell UMC

                                                                                                                                          7:00 PM                     

 March 19  Church Office Hours                                                               9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

                   Choir Rehearsal                                                                            6:00 PM-7:15 PM

                   Adult Bible Study                                                                         7:15 PM-8:45 PM

 

 March 20  Pastor’s at school and Pastor’s Day Off

                   ELCC Ethnic Retreat, Hilton Milw. River Hotel                         3:00 PM-9:00 PM

 

 March 21  Wisconsin Conf.  UMW Social ActionDay, First UMC Madison

                   ELCC Ethnic Retreat, Hilton Milw. River HoteL                      8:00 AM-12:00 PM

 

Volunteers for Next Sunday

Greeters & Ushers            Randy and Jane Craig

Reader                              Jenny Hensgen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John 2:13-22

Jesus Cleanses the Temple

13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money-changers seated at their tables. 15Making a whip of cords, he drove all of them out of the temple, both the sheep and the cattle. He also poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16He told those who were selling the doves, ‘Take these things out of here! Stop making my Father’s house a market-place!’ 17His disciples remembered that it was written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’ 18The Jews then said to him, ‘What sign can you show us for doing this?’ 19Jesus answered them, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.’ 20The Jews then said, ‘This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?’ 21But he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Concerns

Eunice Drought

Stewart

Mary Alice Rubach

People of Cambodia

Carol

Denise

Traveling to see Family

Bev Squires

Janet

Heather

Tracy

Bonnie

Jill

Mission efforts

Taylor and Family

Family of Samantha

All Those Looking for Work

Business and Economy

Jolie

Family of Mark

All Who Are Grieving

Jerry Beitz Family

 
 

Today I will Pray For:

Joys

Anna & Ally

Bob Richardson

March 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

Tracey

Kevin Mattson

Stewardship

Bridget and Tom Reiter

Bill Spires

Doug Janke & Family

 
 
In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

 

 

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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