Caldwell United Methodist Church
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APRIL 18, 2010
NATIVE AMERICAN MINISTRIES SUNDAY
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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)
GATHERING SONGS: “Morning Has Broken” #145 in Hymnal
“God of
Many Names” #104 in Hymnal
WORDS
OF GREETING: God is Good – All the time
All the time – God is Good
SHARING
OUR JOYS AND CONCERNS: Including birthdays and
Following each joy, please
respond: anniversaries
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 HYMN: “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty”
#64 in
Hymnal
*CALL
TO WORSHIP:
One: Grandfather, Great
Spirit, you have always been, and before
you nothing
has been.
All: There is no one to pray to but you.
One:
The star nations all over the heaven are yours, and yours
are the
grasses of the earth.
All: You are older than all need, older than all
pain and
prayer.
One:
Grandfather, Great Spirit, fill us with light.
All: Give us strength to understand and eyes to
see.
One:
Teach us to walk the soft earth as relatives to all that
live.
All: Help us, for without you we are
nothing. Amen.
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER:
“Spirit of the Living God”
SILENT PRAYER #393 in Hymnal
PASTORAL PRAYER
THE LORD’S PRAYER
SHARING GOD'S BLESSINGS:
All loose change goes to Christian Disciple
Farm
*OFFERING RESPONSE::
“Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow” #94 in Hymnal
*PRAYER
OF THANKSGIVING
O Great Spirit
(Gitchi Manitou, Most Awesome
of the
Awesome), whose voice
we hear in the winds, and whose
breath gives life to all the world, hear us. We come before
you as your children. We are small and weak; we need your
strength and wisdom. Let us walk in beauty and make our
eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. May our
hands respect the things you have made,
our ears be sharp to hear your voice. Make us wise, so that we may know the
things you have taught your
people, the lessons you have hidden
in every leaf and rock. We seek strength not to be superior to our brothers and sisters, but to
live in harmony with our- selves
and all of your creation. Help us to be ever ready to come to you, so when life fades as a
fading sunset, our spirits may
come to you without shame. Amen.
John 21:f-19
ANTHEM: “A Native American Prayer” Nolan E. Schmidt
MESSAGE: “It’s Still Easter!”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CLOSING
HYMN:: “Many Gifts, One Spirit” #114 in
Hymnal
*WORDS OF PARTING
*PARTING
SONG: “Trees of the Field”
#2279 in Hymnal
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www.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 Pete & Marianne Lukas
Reader Elouise Benner
Dates
to Remember
TODAY –
COFFEE BEFORE & AFTER THE SERVICE
Apr. 19 Pastor’s office
hours
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Apr. 20 Pastor’s office
hours
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Apr. 21 Pastor’s office
hours
2:00 – 5:00 PM
Apr. 22 Metro Region
Vision Team
District Office,
Choir rehearsal
6:30 – 7:45 PM
Apr. 24 SHARE
8:00 – 10:00 AM
United Methodist Men 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Volunteers for next
Sunday
Greeters
& Ushers - Don & Diane Herron
Reader - Diane Herron
Revelation 5:11-14
Then
I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living
creatures
and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and
thousands of thousands, saying with a
loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb
who was slain, to receive power and
wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!” And I heard every creature in heaven and on
earth and under the earth and in the
sea, and all therein saying, “To him who
sits upon the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might for ever and ever!” And the four living creatures said, “Amen!” and the elders fell down and
worshipped.
John 21:1-19
After
these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the
disciples.
Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.” They said
to him, “We will go with you.” They went out and got into the boat, but
that night they caught nothing.
Just
after daybreak, Jesus stood on the beach; but the disciples did not know that
it was Jesus. Jesus said to
them,”Children, you have no fish, have you?
They answered him, “No.” He said
to them, “Cast the net to the right side of the boat, and you will find
some.” So they cast it, and now they
were not able to haul it in because there were so many fish.
That disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” When Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord, he put on some clothes, for he was naked, and jumped into the sea. But the other disciples came in the boat,
dragging the net full of fish, for they were
not far from the land, only about a hundred yards off.
When
they had gone ashore, they saw a charcoal fir there, with fish on it, and
bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some
of the fish that you have just caught.”
So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large
fish, a hundred fifty-three of them; and though there were so many, the net was
not torn. Jesus said to them, “Come and
have breakfast.” Now none of the
disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they knew it was the
Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and
gave it to them, and did
the same with the fish.
This was now the third time that Jesus appeared to the disciples after
he was raised from the dead.
When
they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, ”Simon son of John, do you love me more than
these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that
I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my
lambs.” A second time he said to him, “Simon son
of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love
you.” Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon son
of John, do you love me?” Peter felt hurt because he said to him
the third time, “Do you love
me?” And he said to him, “Lord you know
everything; you know that I love you.
Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Very truly, I will tell you, when you
were younger, you used
to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out
your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where
you do not wish to go.” (He said this
to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.)
After this he said to him, “Follow 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