Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

September 20, 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: “We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise"  #2031  TFWS
                               "All I Need Is You"  #2080 TFWS                                                                                                                                              #2077 You Alone Are Holy

 

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: “The God of Abraham Praise"  #116 in your Hymnal                                

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP: 

Leader:  God, like a baker woman, you bring the leaven which causes

              Our hopes to rise.

People:  With your strong and gentle hands, shape our lives.  Warm

               Us with your love.

Leader:  Take our common lives and touch them with your grace,

              That we may nourish hope among humanity.

People:  We pray trusting in your name, through Jesus Christ.

               Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

SILENT PRAYER                                

PASTORAL PRAYER  

THE LORD’S PRAYER

 

SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS:  Operation Christmas Child

 

*OFFERING RESPONSE   "All Creatures of Our God and King" 

                                             #62 in your Hymnal

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Jesus said: "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me."

Precious Lord, your love for us is amazing. You have blessed us in so many ways. The children of this congregation are an extraordinary example of your blessing. We are thankful for the numerous ministries of this church that reach out to children and families. May a portion of this money continue to support those ministries that welcome children in our midst. Amen.

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Mark 9:30-37

 

ANTHEM:  “Weave Me, Lord"  Linda A. Spencer 

 

MESSAGE:  “All Means All”

 

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

*CLOSING SONG:  “O Young and Fearless Prophet"

                                 #444 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                                              Pete and Mariann Lukas

Reader                                                                              Jenny Hensgen          

 

Dates to Remember

 

September 21  Items due for Bulletin

 

September 22  Pastor Grace @ Lakeland Hospital

 

September 23  Shared Ministry Staff Meeting                                                  11:00 AM

 

September 24  Choir rehearsal                                                           6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

 

September 26  SHARE                                                                           8:00 AM-10:00 AM

                          United Methodist Men                                                   9:00 AM-10:00 AM

                          ITALIAN NIGHT DINNER                                                  4:30PM-7:00 PM

                          Please invite a friend or two!

 

Volunteers for Next Sunday

Greeters & Ushers         Don & Diane Herron

Reader                           Don Herron

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark 9:30-37

Jesus Again Foretells His Death and Resurrection

30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, ‘The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.’ 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.

Who Is the Greatest?

33 Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, ‘What were you arguing about on the way?’ 34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, ‘Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.’ 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37‘Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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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