Caldwell United
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:
“Be Thou My Vision” #451 in your
Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader:
O Lord our God,
People: You are always more ready to bestow your good gifts
On us than we are to seek them and
are willing to give
more
than we desire or deserve.
Leader: Help us to seek that we may truly find, so to ask that we may
Joyfully receive, so to knock the
door of your mercy may be
Opened to us;
People: Through Jesus
Christ our Savior. Amen.
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
O Lord of
Hosts, we are so happy to offer you these monetary gifts. We recognize that we
are able to worship here because of the generous giving of this congregation.
Yet, our giving and our prayer extend beyond us. We pray that these offerings
and tithes will be used to reach out to others in the community and around the
world who need to find a joyful trust in you. "Happy is everyone who
trusts in you." All praise and glory to you! Amen.
A
MESSAGE: “Fed By
Christ-Called to Share"
By Pastor Joyce Rich
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Let Us
Break Bread Together ”
#618 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
Joyce Rich
Pianist Jane
Spires
Greeters & Ushers Janet Scholbe & Pat Tomczyk
Reader
Lucia Janke
Dates
to Remember
August 24 Items due for Bulletin
August
24-29 Pastor Grace on Vacation
August 26 Shared Ministry Staff Meeting
August
27 Choir Rehearsal
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Bob & Avis Weeks
Reader Steve Lohr
Exodus
16:1-5 The Message
On the fifteenth day of the second month
after they had left
God
said to Moses, “I’m going to rain bread down from the skies for you. The people
will go out and gather each day’s ration. I’m going to test them to see if
they’ll live according to my Teaching or not. On the sixth day, when they
prepare what they have gathered, it will turn out to be twice as much as their
daily ration.”
John
6:35-51 The Message
Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life. The
person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have
told you this explicitly because even though you have seen me in action, you don’t
really believe me. Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to
me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don’t let go. I came down
from heaven not to follow my own whim but to accomplish the will of the One who
sent me.
‘This, in a nutshell, is that will: that
everything handed over to me by the Father be completed — not a single detail
missed — and at the wrap-up of time I have everything and everyone put
together, upright and whole. This is what my Father wants: that anyone who sees
the Son and trusts who he is and what he does and then aligns with him will
enter real life, eternal life. My part is to put them on their feet alive and whole
at the completion of time.”
At this, because he said, “I am the Bread
that came down from heaven,” the Jews started arguing over him: “Isn’t this the
son of Joseph? Don’t we know his father? Don’t we know his mother? How can he
now say, ‘I came down out of heaven’ and expect anyone to believe him?”
Jesus said, “Don’t bicker among yourselves over
me. You’re not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws
people to me — that’s the only way you’ll ever come. Only then do I do my work,
putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End. This is
what the prophets meant when they wrote, ‘And then they will all be personally
taught by God.’ Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father,
really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally —
to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have
it firsthand from the Father. No one has seen the Father except the One who has
his Being alongside the Father — and you can see me.
“I’m telling you the most solemn and sober
truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread
of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now
here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread
will not die, ever. I am the Bread — living Bread! — who
came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live — and forever!
The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself,
this flesh-and-blood self.”
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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