Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
April 19, 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:
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:
The Gift
of Love (Though I May Speak with
Bravest Fire)
#408 in your Hymnal
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
Leader: O Lord, your wondrous birth means nothing
unless we are born
Again, your death and sacrifice
mean nothing unless we die to
Sin, your resurrection means
nothing if you be risen alone.
People: Raise and exalt us,
O Savior, both now to the estate of
Grace and hereafter to the state
of glory,
Leader: Where with the Father and the Holy Spirit
People: You live and
reign; God for ever and ever. 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
O God, just as the
disciples heard Christ’s words of promise and began to eat the bread and drink
the wine in the suffering of a long remembrance and in the joy of a hope, grant
that we may hear your words, spoken in each thing of everyday affairs; Coffee, on our table in the morning; the
simples gesture of opening a door to go out, free; the shouts of children in
the parks; a familiar song, sung by an unfamiliar face; a friendly tree that
has not yet been cut down. May simple
things speak to us of your mercy, and tell us that life can be good.
A
READING FROM THE BIBLE: John 20:19-31
MESSAGE: “Survival Skills: Doubt”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: ”Because He Lives” # 364 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 Steve & Carol
Lohr
Reader
Teri Steib
Dates
to Remember
April 21 Ad Council inc.
Meet and Greet” with Dr. Pienkos,
Principal, Washington Caldwell
School 7:00
PM-8:45 PM
April 23 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
April 24 Pastor’s at school and Pastor’s Day
Off
Metro South District Annual
Retreat, Dekoven Center, Racine 5-9
PM
April 25 Metro South Dist, Annual Retreat,
Dekoven Center, Racine 8AM-3 PM
SHARE inc. “Meet and Greet” visit with Dr. Pienkos, Principal
Washington Caldwell School 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Johnny & Sheryl Hutchison
Reader Johnny Hutchison
John
20:19-31
Jesus
Appears to the Disciples
When it was evening on that day, the first day of the
week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for
fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with
you.’ After he said this, he showed
them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the
Lord. Jesus said to them
again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me,
so I send you.’ When he had said this,
he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any,
they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.’
Jesus
and Thomas
But Thomas (who was called the Twin),
one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. So the other disciples told
him, ‘We have seen the Lord.’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the mark of
the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand
in his side, I will not believe.’
A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were
shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ Then he said to Thomas, ‘Put
your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side.
Do not doubt but believe.’ Thomas
answered him, ‘My Lord and my God!’ Jesus
said to him, ‘Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who
have not seen and yet have come to believe.’
The
Purpose of This Book
Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his
disciples, which are not written in this book. But these are written so that
you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah,
the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
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 Patty Jolie Family of Mark All Who Are Grieving Jerry Beitz Family Today I will Pray
For: Joys Anna & Ally Bob Richardson April 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 Elise 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