NOTE: Please sign the attendance sheet in the pew pad. After everyone in your
pew has signed in, please tear the sheet out
and place it in the
offering plate. Thank you!
GATHERING SONG
#274 UMH “Woman in
the Night”
WORDS OF GREETING
God is good — all the time.
All the time — God is good.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
*CALL TO WORSHIP
Come, people of faith, trust in God’s steadfast love.
Take refuge in God’s eternal presence.
We want to trust God, and rely on God’s power.
It is not easy to have faith in one we do not know.
It can be frightening to realize God’s sovereign power.
We want to know Jesus as the image of the
invisible God, the one in whom the fullness of God
was pleased to dwell.
We are the church, gathered in Christ’s name.
We are the body of Christ, seeking to live
faithfully.
God’s Holy Spirit brings us together as one.
We come to worship.
*PRAYER OF INVOCATION
May we open our hearts to you, O God, moving beyond all that clutters
our lives and all that is waiting for our attention.
May your Spirit calm us amid the chaos, and tune
our ears to hear your voice above all else; calling us to find our center in
you.
Move us deeper into your presence where we can be
fully attentive to the depth of Jesus’ teaching, the stirring of your spirit,
the gift of your listening.
May we create space within our lives to meet you,
O God, and to know you more. Amen.
*OPENING HYMN #358 UMH
“Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”
*PASSING OF THE PEACE Please introduce yourself
and extend the peace of Christ to those around you.
SCRIPTURE Luke 10:38-42 The Message, NRSV
CHILDREN’S MOMENTS
TIME OF PRAYER
PREPARATION FOR PRAYER #2128 FWS
“Come and Find the
JOYS AND CONCERNS
SILENT PRAYER
PRAYER OF THE PEOPLE AND THE LORD’S PRAYER
Teacher God, we offer to you the confession of Martha, the confession
of busyness. Too often we have substituted serving for learning, acting for
being. We have forgotten to befriend the silence of our souls, to soak in the
power of your love, to receive the blessings of creation. Help us to find the
balance, O God, between giving and receiving, between doing the Word and
inhabiting the Word. Help us to know when our place is in the kitchen and when
it is at your feet. With Christ we pray:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever. Amen.
TIME OF OFFERING
SHARING GOD’S BLESSINGS
All
loose change goes to Palawan Orphanage.
*OFFERING RESPONSE
#94 UMH “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
*OFFERTORY PRAYER
Lord, through our offerings we proclaim Christ to
the world.
We dedicate our gifts to preaching, teaching, and
outreach that move people toward Christian maturity. And we re-commit ourselves
as advocates for the poor and needy,
as seekers for justice, as stewards of hope. Amen.
SCRIPTURE AND MESSAGE
Colossians 1:15-29 The Message
“Pleased to Dwell”
*CLOSING HYMN #2220 FWS “We Are
God’s People”
*BENEDICTION
Choose this day a life of listening and trusting.
Let God have first place on your daily agenda.
We will give ear to promptings of the Spirit.
We seek to hear God’s teachings and warnings.
Let your faith be evidenced in all your dealings.
Share humbly and caringly the hope that is in you.
We believe others can hear the Word of God
through us. We will be careful to represent
the gospel faithfully.
Thanks be to God! Amen.
And Amen.
*PARTING SONG #2184 FWS “Sent Out in Jesus’ Name”
An * in the service indicates to stand as able.
Worship Leaders for Next Sunday:
Greeters and Ushers: Nancy and Ken Pugh
Reader: Jane Craig
Sunday, July 18, 2010
10:45 a.m.
Worship Service
Your
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(262) 662-2679
Rev. Joyce Rich, Pastor
July/August
Dates to Remember
Sun July 18 9:00 AM worship outdoors @
10:45 AM worship @ Caldwell
11:45 AM potluck luncheon @
Mon July 19
5:30 to 6:30 PM free meal @ St James,
Sun July 25
Rev. David Werner will be the guest preacher
9:00 AM worship outdoors @ Bethel
10:45 AM worship @ Caldwell
July
25-31 Pastor Joyce will be on a Motown Mission Adventure
Sat July 31 8:00 to 10:00 AM SHARE
9:00 to 10:00 AM UM
Men
Sun Aug 1
9:00 AM worship @
10:45 AM worship @ Caldwell
11:45
AM
Set-up for VBS
Aug. 2
through Aug. 6 Galactic Blast VBS from 9:30 AM to Noon
Thurs Aug 5
6:30 PM Trustees meeting
7:30 PM Finance Team meeting
Sun Aug 8
9:00 AM worship @
10:45 AM worship @ Caldwell with
VBS presentation
Ready for Confirmation Class?
If you have LOTS of
questions – or you don’t even know where to begin to explore your faith in God
– you are ready to participate in Confirmation Class! During the school year the
class will engage in study, worship, service – and fieldtrips! While many
people are part of a Confirmation Class when they are in middle school,
sometimes there are younger or older people who feel the need to take part in
this experience. Talk to Pastor Joyce for more info. We’ll probably have people
from both
Join
the E-mail Prayer Ministry Team
If your spiritual gift
is prayer – use your gift every day to pray for the joys and concerns that are
raised up in worship and during the week at
e-mail to
BethelUMC@elknet.net, with subject “prayer group.”
Luke
10:38-42 The
Message
As
they continued their travel, Jesus entered a village. A woman by the name of
Martha welcomed him and made him feel quite at home. She had a sister, Mary,
who sat before the Master, hanging on every word he said. But Martha was pulled
away by all she had to do in the kitchen. Later, she stepped in, interrupting
them. “Master, don’t you care that my sister has abandoned the kitchen to me?
Tell her to lend me a hand.”
The
Master said, “Martha, dear Martha, you’re fussing far too much and getting
yourself worked up over nothing. One thing only is essential, and Mary has
chosen it – it’s the main course, and won’t be taken from her.”
Luke
10:38-42 New
Revised Standard Version
Now
as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named
Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the
Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by
her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my
sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me.” But
the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many
things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which
will not be taken away from her.”
Colossians
1:17-20 New
Revised Standard Version
[Christ] himself is before all things, and in him all
things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the
beginning, the first-born from the dead, so that he might come to have first
place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to
dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things,
whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.
Colossians
1:15-29 The
Message
We look at this Son and
see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original
purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and
below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels – everything got started in him and finds
its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds
it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he
organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
He was supreme in the beginning and
– leading the resurrection parade – he is supreme in the end. From beginning to
end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so
roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding.
Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of
the universe – people and things, animals and atoms – get properly fixed
and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that
poured down from the Cross.
You yourselves are a case study of
what he does. At one time you all had your backs turned to God, thinking
rebellious thoughts of him, giving him trouble every chance you got. But now,
by giving himself completely at the Cross, actually dying for you, Christ brought you over to God’s side and put your
lives together, whole and holy in his presence. You don’t walk away from a gift
like that! You stay grounded and steady in that bond of trust, constantly tuned
in to the Message, careful not to be distracted or diverted. There is no other
Message – just this one. Every creature under heaven gets this same Message.
I,
Paul, am a messenger of this Message.
I want you to know how glad I am
that it’s me sitting here in this jail and not you. There’s a lot of suffering
to be entered into in this world – the kind of suffering Christ takes on. I
welcome the chance to take my share in the church’s part of that suffering.
When I became a servant in this church, I experienced this suffering as a sheer
gift, God’s way of helping me serve you, laying out the whole truth.
This mystery has been kept in the
dark for a long time, but now it’s out in the open. God wanted everyone, not
just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of
their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell
is just this: Christ is in you, therefore you can look
forward to sharing in God’s glory. It’s that simple. That is the substance of
our Message. We preach Christ,
warning people not to add to the message. We teach in a spirit of profound
common sense so that we can bring each person to maturity. To be mature is to
be basic. Christ! No more, no less. That’s what I’m working so hard at day
after day, year after year, doing my best with the
energy God so generously gives me.
Our
District Superintendent, Rev. Jorge Mayorga Solis has called for a special
session of church conference to be held at Caldwell UMC on Sun., Aug. 1 at 11:45
AM. The sole purpose of this special conference is to take a written vote on
the Shared Ministry Strategic Plan and ministry model. All members of Caldwell
UMC who are present may vote and shall constitute a quorum. Rev. John Sumwalt from
Special
conferences will also be held at St. James UMC and Bethel UMC the morning of
Aug. 1. That afternoon the presiding Elders will meet with Pastor Joyce and
Rev. Carrie Kreps Wegenast (new pastor at St. James UMC) to count the votes from
each conference and communicate the results
to our District Superintendent and the three churches. The majority of
members at each of the special conferences would need to vote in favor of
adoption for the plan to be implemented.
Holding
in Prayer
Shut Ins: Mabel
Byron, Bill Spires
Joys: Celebrating birthdays: Bonnie Mattson (July 19); Hailey
Van Buren (July 20); Chuck Herman (July 23). Celebrating wedding anniversaries:
Jenny and Steve Hensgen (July 18); Xue and Alan Willhite (July 21); Debbie
and Geoff Zoellick (July 22); Kim and Jerrod Van
Buren (July 23).
Concerns: Sam Pritchett, Rev. Pat Lyon, and Deanna Shimko-Herman
and the Cambodian mission; people of Eagle; family of Rev. Michael Ascher on his death of his mother, Rose Minnie Ascher, on July 5; family of Rev. Patrick Schultz (Milton
UMC) on the death of his mother, JoAnn Schultz on
July 5; our troops overseas; all who are looking for work.