Caldwell United Methodist Church

 Bring Individuals to Christ    Nurture spiritual growth

Invite others to discipleship

September 6, 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:  #2195  In the Lord I’ll Be Ever Thankful 
                                  #2077 You Alone Are Holy                                                                                                                                                    #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: “Unsettled World” #2183 In The Faith We Sing

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP: 

Leader:  O God, just as the disciples heard Christ’s words of promise

               And began to eat the bread and drink the wine in the suffering of a

               Long remembrance and in the joy of a hope, grant theat we may

               Hear your words, spoken in each thing of everyday affairs.

People: Coffee on our table in the morning; the simple gesture of

              Opening a door to go out, free; the shouts of children

               In the parks; a familiar song, sung by a unfamiliar face;

               A friendly tree that has not yet been cut down.

Leader:   May simple things speak to us of your mercy, and tell us that life

               Can be good. 

People:   And may these sacramental gifts make us remember those

                Who do not receive them.  Amen.

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

SILENT PRAYER                                

PASTORAL PRAYER   

 

SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS:  Operation Christmas Child

 

*OFFERING RESPONSE   “Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow”  # 95 in your Hymnal

 

*PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

Healing One, we are reminded so often in biblical narration that you are capable of miraculous actions. But your miracles are not limited to these ancient times. People still experience miracles in these ordinary, everyday times. We recall those many miracles that have touched people within our own congregation. We are astounded by those miracles that we witness each day. We are so thankful! Today, we offer you this money as a sacred gesture of our gratitude. All praise and honor be given to you! Amen.

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE: Mark 7:24-37

 

ANTHEM:  “Make Me A Channel of Your Peace”  arr. Mary Hayes

 

MESSAGE:  “Going Our Own Way”

 

A SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION (Ushers will alert the children that it is time for communion. The children will receive communion together and then sit in the front pew)

Musical Setting B                               Page #18 in your Hymnal

The Lord’s Prayer                                   # 895 in your Hymnal  

            Breaking the Bread

            Giving the Bread and Cup

Communion song [congregation and choir]:  “In Remembrance of Me

 #2254 in The Faith We Sing songbook

 

 ANNOUNCEMENTS

*CLOSING SONG:  “Make Me a Channel of Your Peace”

                                    #2171 In the Faith We Sing songbook

 

*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                                                       Ken & Nancy Pugh

Reader                                                                              Jennie Sanchez

            

 

Dates to Remember

 

September 7           Items due for Bulletin

 

September 8          Administrative Council                                          7:00 PM- 8:30 PM

 

September 9           Shared Ministry Staff Meeting                                           11:00 AM

 

September 3           Choir rehearsal                                                    6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

 

September 12        Free Breakfast at Spring Prairie UMC                   7AM-10:00 AM

                                Caldwell Food Pantry

                                Metro South District UMW Team Meeting        9:00 AM -12:00 PM

          

Volunteers for Next Sunday

Greeters & Ushers         Janke Family

Reader                           Chuck Herman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark 7:24-37

The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith

24 From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre.* He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice, 25but a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately heard about him, and she came and bowed down at his feet. 26Now the woman was a Gentile, of Syrophoenician origin. She begged him to cast the demon out of her daughter. 27He said to her, ‘Let the children be fed first, for it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.’ 28But she answered him, ‘Sir,* even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.’ 29Then he said to her, ‘For saying that, you may go—the demon has left your daughter.’ 30So she went home, found the child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

Jesus Cures a Deaf Man

31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. 32They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they begged him to lay his hand on him. 33He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. 34Then looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’ 35And immediately his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. 36Then Jesus* ordered them to tell no one; but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. 37They were astounded beyond measure, saying, ‘He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak.’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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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