Caldwell Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
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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.
OPENING SONG: “Child of
Blessing, Child of Promise”
#611 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader:
This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad
In it.
People: This is none other
than the house of God, and this is the
Gate of heaven.
Leader: The hour is coming, and now is, when true worshipers will
Worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks
To worship him.
People: Enter the gates with thanksgiving, and his
courts with praise!
Give thanks to him, bless his
name!
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER: “Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S 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
Blessed
One, you offer a redemptive inheritance sometimes beyond our imagination. You
graciously bestow each of us with your wisdom, grace, forgiveness, and love. Joyously,
we share these tithes and offerings. As you call us to give, you remind us to
place our hopes and dreams in your love and grace. Thank you, God, for giving
us your Son and our Savior, Jesus Christ. We pray in His name. Amen
A
MESSAGE: "Freedom to Change" (3 of 3)
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING SONG: “This Is My
Father's World” #144 in your Hymnal
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING SONG “Trees of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith We Sing
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Pastor
Grace Baldridge’s Cell Phone
(262) 751-0955
Secretary’s
Phone: (262) 662-0264
Ministers
All of us
Pastor
Rev. Sue Leih
Pianist Jane
Spires
Greeters & Ushers
Ken & Nancy Pugh
Reader
Bob Weeks
Dates to Remember
July 12 SPRC Meeting
July 13 Items due for Bulletin
July 14
Mukwonago Area Ministers Association
Administrative Council
July 15 The Way of
Pilgrimage: The Bible Pilgrimage Travel Guide
Pastor
Kris Androsky, First UMC
6 sessions
July 16 Church Office Hours
Choir in
Recess until 8-27
Shared
Ministry Staff Meeting
July 17-18 Pastor out of town
Volunteers
for Next Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Need Volunteers
Reader Need Volunteers
This was totally spontaneous, entirely their own idea, and caught
us completely off guard. What explains it was that they had first given
themselves unreservedly to God and to us. The other giving simply flowed out of
the purposes of God working in their lives. That's what prompted us to ask
Titus to bring the relief offering to your attention, so that what was so well
begun could be finished up. You do so well in so many things—you trust God,
you're articulate, you're insightful, you're passionate, you love us—now, do
your best in this, too.
I'm
not trying to order you around against your will. But by bringing in the
Macedonians' enthusiasm as a stimulus to your love, I am hoping to bring the
best out of you. You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus
Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us—in one stroke he became poor
and we became rich.
So here's what I think: The
best thing you can do right now is to finish what you started last year and not
let those good intentions grow stale. Your heart's been in the right place all
along. You've got what it takes to finish it up, so go to it. Once the
commitment is clear, you do what you can, not what you can't. The heart regulates
the hands. This isn't so others can take it easy while you sweat it out. No,
you're shoulder to shoulder with them all the way, your surplus matching their
deficit, their surplus matching your deficit. In the end you come out even.
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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