Caldwell United Methodist Church
Bring Individuals to Christ Nurture spiritual growth
Invite others to discipleship
January
3, 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 “Twas in the Moon of
Wintertime” #244 in Your Hymnal
“He is Born” #228 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 : “The First Noel” #245 in Your Hymnal
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
One:
Creative God, you make all things new in heaven and on earth.
All: We come to you in a new year with new desires
and old
fears, new
decisions and old controversies , new dreams and
old
weaknesses.
One :Because you are a God of
hope,
All: we know
that you create all the possibilities of the future
One:
Because you are a God of love,
All: we know that you accept all the mistakes of
the past.
One:
Because you are the God of our faith,
All: we enter your gates with thanksgiving and
praise, we come
Into your presence with gladness and a
joyful noise, and
we serve and
bless you. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Through It All” #507 in your Hymnal
SILENT PRAYER
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS “Roof, Roof” (NPUMC
Roof Fund)
*OFFERING RESPONSE: “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings
Flow” #95
in Your Hymnal
*PRAYER
OF THANKSGIVING
Almighty God, giver
of every good and perfect gift, teach us to render to you all that we have and
all that we are, that we may praise you, not with our lips only, but with our
whole lives, turning the duties, the sorrows, and the joys of all our days into
a living sacrifice to you; through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
A
MESSAGE: “Check Your Files” Lisa McIntyre
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
SONG: “Once in Royal David’s City” #250 in Your Hymnal
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG “The Trees
of the Field”
#2279 in The Faith
We Sing
(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 Janet Scholbe Pat Tomczyk
Reader
Jane
Craig
Dates
to Remember
Jan. 4 UMW Evening group
6:30 PM
Jan. 5 Shared Ministry listening session @
Lohr’s 7:00 PM
Jan. 6 UMW Day group
12:00 PM
C.A.R.E. committee, Mukwonago
Library 6:30 PM
Trustees 6:30 PM
Finance committee
7:30 PM
Jan. 6 Choir
rehearsal
6:00 – 7:15 PM
Jan.
9 Food Pantry 8:00 –
10:30 AM
SPRC training,
CORR, Hilton Hotel,
Shared Ministry listening session
@ Stark’s 11:00 AM
Jan. 10 Outreach
committee
9:00 – 10:00 AM
Volunteers for next Sunday
Greeters Steve
& Carol Lohr
Reader Chuck
Herman
Psalm 139:1-12
O
Lord, you have searched me and known me.
You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts
from far away. You search out my path
and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, O Lord,
you know it completely. You hem me in,
behind and before, and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot
attain it.
Where
can I go from your spirit? Or where can
I flee from your presence? If I ascend
to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and settle
at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me, and your
right hand shall hold me fast. If I say,
“Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,”
even the darkness is as light to you.
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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