Caldwell United
Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
August
30, 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
Gathering songs: #2025 As the Deer
#2088 Lord, I Lift
Your Name on High
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:
“Jesus, Joy of Our Desiring”
#644 in your Hymnal
*CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: O God, our Guide and Guardian, you have led
us apart
From the busy
world into the quiet of your house.
People: Grant us grace to worship you in Spirit and in truth, to
The comfort of our souls and the
up building of every
Good purpose and holy desire.
Leader: Enable us to do more perfectly the work to
which you have
Called us, that we may not fear
the coming of night, when we
Shall resign in to your hands the
tasks which you have
Committed to
us.
People: So may we
worship you not with our lips at this hour,
But in word and deed all the days
of our lives; 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
Holy God,
we are grateful for your constant presence in our lives. We acknowledge that
every perfect gift in our lives is a gift from you. We have listened to your
guidance, directing us to offer you our first fruits. So, we now join in this
generous act of giving. We pray that these resources may care for your children
everywhere who are experiencing distress. We pray in
the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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READING FROM THE BIBLE: James 1: 17-27
ANTHEM: “Open the Eyes of My Heart” Paul Baloche,
Jack Schrader
MESSAGE: “Our Church”, by Don Foster
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Open
Our Eyes” #2086
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 Bob & Avis Weeks
Reader
Steve Lohr
Dates
to Remember
August
31 Items due for Bulletin
September
2 Shared Ministry Staff Meeting 11:00
AM
UMW Day Group 12:00
PM -2:00 PM
C.A.R.E. @ Mukwonago Library 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
Trustees 6:30
PM – 7:30 PM
Finance Committee 7:30
PM – 8:45 PM
September
3 Choir rehearsal 5:30
PM - 6:30 PM
Metro Region Vision Team Meeting, District
Office 7-9 PM
Volunteers for Next
Sunday
Greeters & Ushers Ken & Nancy Pugh
Reader Jennie Sanchez
JAMES
1:17-27
Every generous act of
giving, with every perfect gift, is from above, coming down from the Father of
lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave us
birth by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of
his creatures.
Hearing
and Doing the Word
You must understand this,
my beloved: let everyone be quick to listen,
slow to speak, slow to anger; for your anger does not produce God’s
righteousness. Therefore rid yourselves of all sordidness and rank growth of
wickedness, and welcome with meekness the implanted word that has the power to
save your souls.
But be doers of the word,
and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if any are hearers of the
word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; for they look at themselves and,
on going away, immediately forget what they were like. But those who look into
the perfect law, the law of liberty, and persevere, being not hearers who
forget but doers who act—they will be blessed in their doing.
If any think they are
religious, and do not bridle their tongues but deceive their hearts, their religion
is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is
this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.
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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