Caldwell United Methodist Church
Bring
Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
May 24,
Ascension Sunday
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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: Congregational
Sing-Along “Sanctuary” TFWS #2164
“More Like You” TFWS #2167 “We Are
Called” TFWS #2172, #2218 TFWS “You Are
Mine”
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: “Open My Eyes, that I May See” #454 In your Hymnal
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
Pastor:
On difficult days, when nothing goes well
People: And life crushes and squeezes
and hurts
Pastor: On difficult days, when you can't find your voice
People: And it feels like our options
are taken away
Pastor: On difficult days, when courage fails
People: And we clamor to take the front
seat
All: Remind yourself that we are all waiting for the Wind.
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
Holy Father, we
desire to be sanctified in your grace like the disciples whom Jesus
commissioned with your word. We do not want to squander our lives and resources
on meaningless consumption. Open our hearts and our hands to respond to giving
appeals in a generous manner. Give us the courage to embrace a lifestyle
centered in your teaching, rather
than one dictated by marketing trends or unhealthy spending habits. We offer you
these gifts as an act of responding to you in faith. Amen
A
ANTHEM: “We Will Dance” David Ruis
MESSAGE: “Holy Spirit: Understood Beyond Understanding (1 of 3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “I'll
Fly Away” #2282 in The Faith We Sing
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG “Trees
of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
(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 Janke Family
Reader
Steve
Lohr
Dates
to Remember
May 24 Worship Committee Meeting 9:00
AM-10:00 AM
May 25 Items due for Bulletin
May 27 Shared Ministry Staff Meeting 11:00
AM
May 28 Church Office Hours 9:00
AM – 12:00 PM
Choir Rehearsal 6:00
PM – 7:15 PM
May 30 SHARE 8:00
AM – 10:00 AM
Metro South District UMW Team
Meeting
First UMC, Racine 9:00
AM -12:00 PM
Trustees Clean up day 9:00
AM – 12:00 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Brian
Bayley
Reader Replacement Needed
Luke 24:44-53
Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you
while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be
fulfilled.’ Then he opened their minds to understand
the scriptures, and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written,
that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the
third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins
is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from
The
Ascension of Jesus
Then he led them out as far as
Eunice Drought Stewart Mary Alice Rubach People of Carol Denise Traveling to see Family Bev Squires Janet Heather Bonnie Jill 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 Chuck Herman 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 Bartholomew
Family Suzi and
twins
Other Concerns
.
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