Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
July
5, 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
“I’m
Gonna Live So God Can Use Me” #2153, “Cry of My Heart” #2165
Both
songs in The Faith We Sing songbook
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 #2214 “Lead Me, Guide
Me” in The Faith We Sing songbook
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Here is our ordinary community made of
Peculiarities
and imperfections.
People: Come let us
draw near to one another in spirit.
Leader:
And recognize the holy presence
People: That makes us an extraordinary people of
justice
And good work. 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
O
God, in our time of need, your love surrounds us. In our brokenness, you are
ever near. Use this offering to bring healing and wholeness to others who are
in need. Amen.
A
READING FROM THE BIBLE: Second Corinthians
12:2-10
ANTHEM: “Take Now My Voice” Douglas Nolan
MESSAGE: “Freedom
to Change” (2 of 3)
A SERVICE OF HOLY
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 “Open the Eyes of My Heart”
Paul
Baloche, Jack Schrader
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go”
#480 in your Hymnal
*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 Steve and Carol Lohr
Reader
John Steib
Communion Assistant
Dates
to Remember
July 5
4th of July parade on the lawn at St. James UMC, East Troy 1:00 PM
July 6
Items due for Bulletin
UMW Evening Group 6:30
PM- 8:00 PM
July 8 August Newsletter
Deadline
Shared Min. Staff Meeting 11:00 AM
Trustees
Meeting 6:30-
7:09 PM
Finance Committee 7:30
PM- 8:45 PM The Way of Pilgrimage:The Bible
Pilfrimage Travel Guide
Pastor
Kris Androsky, First UMC Waukesha Weekly series
The Bible Pilgrimage Travel Guide
6
sessions 7:00
PM
July 9 Office Hours
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Choir in Recess until August 27
July 10 Pastor’s Day off
July 11 Free Breakfast @
Spring Prairie UMC
7:00 AM – 10:00 AM Caldwell Food Pantry 8:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers
Ken and Nancy Pugh
Reader Bob Weeks
Second
Corinthians 12:2-10
I know
a person in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third
heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows. And I know that such a
person—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know; God knows— was caught up into Paradise and
heard things that are not to be told, that no mortal is permitted to repeat. On behalf of such a one I will
boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. But if I wish to boast, I will
not be a fool, for I will be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that
no one may think better of me than what is seen in me or heard from me, even considering the
exceptional character of the revelations. Therefore, to keep
me from being too elated, a thorn was given to me in the flesh, a messenger of
Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated.
Three times I appealed
to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, ‘My grace is
sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in
weakness.’ So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the
power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore
I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities
for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I
am strong.
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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