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Epiphany - January 10, 2010

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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   “At the Turning of the Year” (see insert)

                “Cold December Flies Away”    #233 in Your Hymnal

 

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: “On This Day Earth Shall Ring”  #248 in Hymnal

 

*CALL TO WORSHIP: 

Leader:  Everlasting God, the radiance of faithful souls,

People:  you brought the nations to your light and kings to the

               brightness of your rising.

Leader:  Fill the world with your glory, and show yourself to all the

               nations;

People:  through him who is the true light and the bright and

               morning star, even Jesus Christ your Son our Lord.

               Amen.

 

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

SILENT PRAYER                                

PASTORAL PRAYER   

 

SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS  

 

*OFFERING RESPONSE  

  “Praise God from whom all blessings flow”; #94 in Hymnal

                    

 *PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING

O God, you made of one blood all nations, and, by a star in the East, revealed to all peoples him whose name is Emmanuel.  Enable us who know your presence with us so to proclaim his unsearchable riches that all may come to his light and bow before the brightness of his rising, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, now and for ever.  Amen

 

A READING FROM THE BIBLE::  Matthew 2:1-12

 

ANTHEM:  “Three Kings of Orient” John H. Hopkins, arr. John Rutter

 

MESSAGE:  “The Joke is on Herod”

 

A SERVICE OF HOLY COMMUNION

   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 {cong & choir} “Come and Share Our Bread”

    Come and share our bread.  Come and share our wine.

    Come and let us eat for now the feast for us is spread.

    One bread, one cup, one Lord for all, and though we all are

    different hear the call, to share this feast.  We all are one body

    with the Lord.

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

*CLOSING SONG:  “O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright”

                                                    #247 in Your Hymnal

 

*WORDS OF PARTING

*PARTING SONG “The Trees of the Field”  #2279 in Your Hymnal

                                     

 

 

 

 

8504 Caldwell Road, Mukwonago, WI  53149

262-662-2679

 www.CaldwellUMC.org
office@caldwellumc.org

Pastor Grace Baldridge’s Cell Phone  (262) 751-0955

 

Ministers                                                                                       All of us

Pastor                                                                  Pastor Grace Baldridge

Choir Director                                                     Deanna Shimko-Herman 

Greeters & Ushers                                                      Steve & Carol Lohr

Reader                                                                              Chuck Herman

 

Dates to Remember

TODAY   Pot Luck after service & taking down Christmas decorations

 

Jan. 12   Ad Council meeting                                                   7:00-8:30 PM

 

 Jan. 14    Metro Region Vision Team, Dist.  Ofc., Milwaukee  10:00 AM-12:00 PM

                 Choir rehearsal                                                                      6:00-7:15 PM

 

 Jan. 15    February newsletter deadline

 

 Jan. 16    Shared Ministry listening session at Caldwell church             10:30 AM

 

 Jan. 17    Human Relations Day

                 Worship committee                                                              9:00-10:00 AM

                 Book Study “The Shack” by William Young                                6:30 PM

                     Contact Pastor Grace

 

Volunteers for Next Sunday

Greeters & Ushers                                                     Dixon family                                    

Reader                                                                  Jenny Hensgen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthew 2:1-12

In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews?  For we observed his star at its rising, and have come to pay him homage.”  When King Herod heard this, he was frightened, and all Jerusalem with him; and calling together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Messiah was to be born.  They told him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it has been written by the prophet:

   ‘And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who is to shepherd my people Israel.’”

Then Herod secretly called for the wise men and learned from them the exact time when the star had appeared.  Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, “Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also go and pay him homage.”  When they had heard the king, they set out; and there, ahead of them, went the star that they had seen at its  rising, until it stopped, they were over-whelmed with joy.  On entering the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother; and they knelt down and paid him homage.  Then, opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.  And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they left for their own country by another road.   

 

 

 

 


In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

 

 

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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       

 

 

 

“At the Turning of the Year”

William H. Havergal,1861, Michael Hudson 2005

 

At the turning of the year we return to contemplate seasons,             

cycles, signs and times, sacred ground to cultivate.  Insight often           

grows more clear at the turning of the year.

 

At the turning of the year waxing nights annunciate warmer days and promise Spring, even as the sun migrates.  Hope sleeps in the husk

of fear at the turning of the year.

 

At the turning of the year we look back and speculate on the ebb and

flow of life, asking what it indicates.  Wisdom speaks and some will hear at the turning of the year.

 

At the turning of the year we look forward as we wait for the grace of

God in time, never early, never late, always distant, always here at

the turning of the year.