Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
March
22, 2009 Fourth Sunday in Lent
One
Great Hour of Sharing
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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. During
this time the children leave the sanctuary with the Children’s Church Leaders. Nursery is also available.
*OPENING SONG: “Breathe on Me,
Breath of God”
#420 in your
Hymnal
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
Leader: O God, you so loved the world as to give your
only begotten
Son, that whosoever believes in
him should not perish, but have
Everlasting life.
People: Grant to us
the precious gift of faith that we may know that the
Son of God is come,
Leader: And may have power to overcome the world and
gain a blessed
Immortality,
People: Through Jesus
Christ 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: School room Medicine
Cabinet Africa/Haiti)
*OFFERING RESPONSE “Praise God from Whom All Blessings
Flow” # 95 in your Hymnal
*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
God of Light, you gave
us your only son so that we may experience eternal life. We humbly give these
offerings as a faithful response to this gift.
Money seems so insignificant when compared to your gift of life. Yet we place
this money before you as a sacrificial gesture of our gratitude. We pray in
Jesus' name. Amen.
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READING FROM THE BIBLE: John 3:14-21
MESSAGE: Stay In Love With God (2 of 3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: ”Lord, I Want to Be a Christian”
#402 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 Randy and Jane Craig
Reader
Jenny
Hensgen
Dates to Remember
March 23
Items due for March 29 bulletin
March 24
Interfaith Conf. Global Economy $10 12:00
PM- 1:30PM
1342 N. Astor St. Milwaukee
March
25 Babes with Bibles @Fork in the
Road
Ecumenical Lent Service,
Troy Center UMC 7:00 PM
March 26
Church Office Hours
Choir Rehearsal 6:00
PM-7:15 PM
Adult Bible Study 7:15
PM-8:45 PM
March 27
Pastor at school and Pastor’s Day Off
Basketball Practice 5:30
-7:00 PM
March 28
SHARE
Shared Ministry Dialogue,
@ St. James UC, East Troy 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Mens Night Out-Cards sponsored by UMM
@ Caldwell UMC-- Bring a friend! 7:00 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Ken
& Nancy Pugh
Reader Bob Weeks
John 3:14-21
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have
eternal life.
‘For God so loved the world that
he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but
may have eternal life.
‘Indeed, God did not send the Son
into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved
through him. Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not
believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of
the only Son of God. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the
world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were
evil. For
all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their
deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may
be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.’
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 Marilee traveling Marilyn Today I will Pray For: Joys Anna & Ally Bob Richardson March Birthdays & Anniversaries Julie Children’s Church Al Handy’s Aunt Helen 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
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