Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

June 7, 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 Congregational Sing-Along 

 “Walk with Me”  TFWS #2242, “Blest Are They”  #2155 TFWS

                          

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.

 

*OPENING SONG: “Here I Am, Lord (I, the Lord of Sea and Sky)”

                                 # 593 in your Hymnal

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP: 

Leader:  From self-righteousness that will not compromise and from

              Selfishness that gains by the oppression of others,

People: O Lord, deliver us.

Leader:  From the lust for money or power that drives to kill.

People: From trusting in the weapons of war, and mistrusting

               The councils of peace.

Leader:  From hearing, believing, and speaking lies about other nations.

              From suspicions and fears that stand in the way of reconciliations.

People:  From words and deeds that encourage discord, prejudice,

               And hatred; from everything that prevents on from fulfilling

               Your promise of peace. Amen.

 

 

 

PREPARATION FOR PRAYER: “Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal

SILENT PRAYER                                

PASTORAL PRAYER   

 

SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS (Anti malaria campaign of UMC...insecticide-treated sleeping nets.)

 

 

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

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Almighty God, you created us in your own image.  Grant us grace fearlessly to contend against evil, and to make no peace with oppression.  And, that we may reverently use our freedom, help us to employ it in the maintenance of justice to the glory of your holy name; through Jesus Christ our Savior.  Amen.

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE:  John  3:1-17

 

ANTHEM:  “We Are the Hands of Christ”   John Parker, Joel Raney

 

MESSAGE:  “Holy Spirit: Surrounded By Peace” (3 of 3)

 

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

Choir song during communion:“Make Me A Channel of Your Peace”      Prayer of St. Francis, music by Sebastian Temple, arranged by Mark Hayes

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

*CLOSING SONG: ”We Are God’s People”

                                # 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                                                     Don & Diane Herron                     

Reader                                                                                    Don Herron

Communion Assistant                                                           

Dates to Remember

 

  June 7   Outreach Committee                                                             9:00 AM 10:00 AM

                SPRC                                                                                         11:45 AM -1:30 PM

                Shared Covenant Ministry Meeting

                North Prairie UMC                                                                  1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

  June 8   Items due for Bulletin                                                                                             

  June 9   Administrative Council                                                         7:00 PM- 8:45 PM

  June 10  Shared Min. Staff Meeting                                                           11:00 AM 

  June 11  Office Hours                                                                9:00 AM – 12:00 PM

                 Choir Practice                                                                6:00 PM – 7:15 PM

  June 12  Pastor’s Day off

  June 13  Free Breakfast @ Spring Prairie UMC                        7:00 AM – 10:00 AM                                                                                                                                                        

 

Volunteers for Next Sunday

 

Greeters & Ushers          Randy & Jane Craig                 

Reader                            Jane Craig

                                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John 3:1-17

Nicodemus Visits Jesus

3Now there was a Pharisee named Nicodemus, a leader of the Jews. 2He came to Jesus* by night and said to him, ‘Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God; for no one can do these signs that you do apart from the presence of God.’ 3Jesus answered him, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born from above.’* 4Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can anyone be born after having grown old? Can one enter a second time into the mother’s womb and be born?’ 5Jesus answered, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. 6What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.* 7Do not be astonished that I said to you, “You* must be born from above.”* 8The wind* blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.’ 9Nicodemus said to him, ‘How can these things be?’ 10Jesus answered him, ‘Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

11 ‘Very truly, I tell you, we speak of what we know and testify to what we have seen; yet you* do not receive our testimony. 12If I have told you about earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you about heavenly things? 13No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.* 14And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.*

16 ‘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.

17 ‘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.

 

 

 

 

 

 


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