Bulletin – Naugatuck United Methodist Church

Please join us each Sunday at 10:15 am for Morning Services

Third Sunday

Sunday May 18th, 2025
Liturgist: Michael Monahan
Pastor: Rev. David W. Mantz
Music Director: Michael Petruzzi

*Congregation standing as they are able

Liturgist Greeting and Announcements

Naugatuck Food Bank – May is our church’s month to assist. Volunteer opportunities exist to help Pack Tuesday from 2 to 4 p.m. and Friday from 10 to 12 during the month. See Dorothy for more information.

Pulpit Swap – On Sunday, June 1st, Pastor Michael Jenkins will be here to serve Communion and bring the message while Pastor Dave will do the same in Ansonia. Sunday Service Time Change – Beginning in July, Pastor Dave will be serving both us and Ansonia UMC in a 75/25% split. Effective July 6th, our Sunday morning service time will change to 11 a.m., allowing the Pastor to conduct morning services at Ansonia at 9 a.m. When Sunday School resumes again in September, they also will start at 11 a.m.

Summer Sunday School—This year, we will offer single-class Sunday School in the Memorial Room during the months of July and August. We are looking for class assistants. Anyone willing to help should contact Lauren or Pastor.

Summer Vacation Bible School – Will be the week of August 11-15 from 6:30 -8:30 p.m. Come join us for an Australian Adventure!! Attn: Volunteers!! – The 1st planning meeting will be Sunday, June 15th, after service.

End of Summer Picnic – Mark your calendars for Sunday, August 24th! Morning church Service will move to Hop Brook Lake Park at 11 a.m., followed by our annual church picnic. This year, in addition to Waterbury, both Ansonia and Watertown will be joining us! Expect A crowd of around 100!

The Ecumenical Food Bank needs instant oatmeal, ketchup, apple juice, pork and beans, canned fruit, pudding, instant coffee, regular and decaf, sugar, and canned meat year-round.

Future Dates for Your Calendar
Sunday, June 1st- Pulpit Swap with Ansonia UMC
Sunday, June 1st- Last Sunday of Choir until Fall
Sunday, June 8th – Confirmation and Youth Sunday, Last day of Sunday School
Wednesday, June 11th – Last Bible Study till the Fall
Sunday, June 15th – After service, Summer VBS Planning Meeting
Sunday, July 6th – Services begin at a new 11 a.m. time
Sunday, July 6th – New Summer Sunday School begins – Memorial Room
Monday – Friday, August 11 – 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. – Summer Vacation Bible School
Sunday, August 24th, 11 a.m. – Service and Picnic at Hop Brook Park with Waterbury, Ansonia, and Watertown

Bible Study – Wednesday, June 4th at 7 p.m. via Zoom.
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Intercessory Prayer – Monday at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom.
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Memory Verse – Matthew 10:39

39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

Call to Worship (Read In Unison)

Speak to us today, we pray, through the written words of your holy Scripture, through the internal witness of your Holy Spirit, and through the comfort and counsel of your people.

Opening Hymn

Hymn #338 “Where He Leads Me”

Verse 1
I can hear my Savior calling
I can hear my Savior calling
I can hear my Savior calling
Take thy cross and follow follow Me

Chorus
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
I’ll go with Him with Him all the way

Verse 2
I’ll go with Him through the garden
I’ll go with Him through the garden
I’ll go with Him through the garden
I’ll go with Him with Him all the way

Chorus
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
I’ll go with Him with Him all the way

Verse 3
I’ll go with Him through the judgment
I’ll go with Him through the judgment
I’ll go with Him through the judgment
I’ll go with Him with Him all the way

Chorus
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
I’ll go with Him with Him all the way

Verse 4
He will give me grace and glory
He will give me grace and glory
He will give me grace and glory
And go with me with me all the way

Chorus
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
Where He leads me I will follow
I’ll go with Him with Him all the way

CCLI Song # 36767

You May Be Seated

Prayer of Confession (Together In Unison)

Most merciful God, who welcomes home those who wander, we confess that we have hungered for that which does not satisfy. We have opted for a path wider than the one we should have taken. We have closed our ears to the news we did not want to hear. Restore us, we pray, to a discerning mind and a holy will through the transforming power of your Holy Spirit.

A time of silent individual confessional prayer

Words of Assurance

“Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ,” said Peter at Pentecost, “so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you, for your children, and for all who are far away, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to him.”

Psalm 104:1-13 (Read Responsively)

UM Hymnal #826

1 Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, you are very great!
You are clothed with honor and majesty,
2 and cover yourself with light as with a garment;
you have stretched out the heavens like a tent,
3 and had laid the beams of your chambers on the
waters;
you make the clouds your chariot,
and ride on the wings of the wind;
4 you make the winds your messengers,
fire and flame your ministers.
5 You set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be shaken.
6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
7 At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
8 They rose up to the mountains, ran down to the valleys,
to the place which you appointed for them.
9 You set a bound which they might not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth.

10 You make spring gush forth in the valley
they flow between the hills;
11 they give drink to every beast of the field;
the wild asses quench their thirst.
12 Above the springs the birds of the air have their nests;
they sing among the branches.
13 from your lofty place you water the mountains;
with the fruit of your work the earth is satisfied.

Pastor’s Greeting / Youth Message

Testimony Time- Joys, Prayers & Concerns

Lord’s Prayer

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.

Hymn of Preparation

Hymn #400 “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing”

Verse 1
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love

Verse 2
Here I raise mine Ebenezer
Hither by Thy help I’m come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood

Verse 3
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be
Let Thy grace Lord like a fetter
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
Prone to wander Lord I feel it
Prone to leave the God I love
Here’s my heart Lord take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above

CCLI Song # 108389

Choir Anthem-“Jesus, You Are My Life”

*Message Text

Matthew 10:367-39

37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
38 And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

The Message “Gain All, Save All, Give All”

Tithes And Offering

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Offering Prayer

*Doxology

Hymn #95

Praise God from Whom all blessings flow
Praise Him all creatures here below
Praise Him above ye Heavenly host
Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost

CCLI Song # 7134391

* Closing Hymn

Hymn #354 “I Surrender All”

Verse 1
All to Jesus I surrender
All to Him I freely give
I will ever love and trust Him
In His presence daily live