Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
May
3, 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
Processional with everyone singing: #278 “Hosanna, Loud
Hosanna”
Choir
processing at head of the people.
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: “Shepherd Me, O God”
#2058 In The Faith We Sing
songbook
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Almighty God, through your only Son you
overcame death
And opened to
us the gate of everlasting life.
People: Grant that we
who celebrate our Lord’s resurrection,
By the
renewing of your Spirit.
Leader: Arise from the death of sin to the life of
righteousness;
People: Through the
same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL 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
Glorious God, we know
that your capacity to love is
infinitely greater than our own ability. Indeed, you call us to love one another
in truth and in action. We yearn to be active disciples, so that our hearts
truly abide with you. Use these gifts to increase our ability to be your
followers. In the name of the One who laid down his life for us, Jesus Christ,
we pray. Amen
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READING FROM THE BIBLE: John 10:11-18
MESSAGE: “NOW HIRING: One Good Shepherd”
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
Song
during Communion: “The Lord Is My
Shepherd” Allen
Pote
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: ”Precious Lord, Take
My Hand”
# 2220 In The Faith We Sing songbook
*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 Pete & Marianne Lukas
Reader
Pete Lukas
Communion Assistant
Robert Dixon
Dates
to Remember
May 3 Sounds of Spring
Concert for
May 4 Items due for Bulletin
UMW Evening Group 6:30
– 8:00 PM
May 6 Shared Minisry Staff Meeting
UMW Day Group Noon
Nuture,
Membership Meeting @Muk. Library 6:30
PM - 7:30 PM
Trustees 6:30
PM - 7:30 PM
Finance Committee 7:30
PM - 8:30 PM
May 7 National Day of Prayer
Church Office Hours 9:00
AM – 12:00 PM
Choir Rehersal 6:00
PM – 7:15 PM
Adult Bible Study 7:15
PM – 8:45 PM
May 8 Pastor’s at school and Pastor’s Day
Off
May 9 Free Breakfast, Spring Prairie UMC
NEXT SUNDAY, FOR
MOTHER’S DAY: Everyone should bring…
a picture of a woman who has been important to you. It may be your
birthmother and/or another significant woman (or two or three). Feel free to
draw or paint their picture, too!
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Don & Barb Foster
Reader Lucia Janke
John 10:11-18
‘I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays
down his life for the sheep. 12The hired hand,
who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and
leaves the sheep and runs away—and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. The hired hand runs away because a hired hand does not
care for the sheep. I am the good
shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just
as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the
sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I
must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one
flock, one shepherd. For this reason the
Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it
down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
up again. I have received this command from my Father.’
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May 10 is your last chance to get your family picture
in the photo directory. Contact Barbara Stark ˆ 262-642-7210 or email ˆ
jabastark@wi.rr.com or Peg Handy-myrodmystaff@gmail.com
Your address, phone number and email will be included
in the new directory, even if you do not care to have the photo displayed.
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 Richard Wolf Today I will Pray
For: Joys Anna & Ally Bob Richardson May 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