RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
(Please pick up a prepackaged Communion pack, when you arrive. If worshipping at home, please have a drink and bread at the ready.)
OFFERING
We ask that you mail or drop off your gifts, offerings, and tithes. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
*Doxology # 95 Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow *HYMN #402 “Lord, I Want to be a Christian”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #310 “He Lives” (refrain)
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Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860 Parsonage Telephone: 814-345-6931 Daycare telephone: 814-345-3809 Church Email address: gumc.office@gmail.com Church Website: www.gethsemanechurch.org WiFi Password: Trustinchrist
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
May 2, 2021 9:00 am
Also available by Streaming Live via Facebook,
or join us in your car with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM ——————————————————————————————- Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
One pt: ” One of the most insidious maladies of our time (is): the tendency in most of us to observe
rather than act, avoid rather than participate,
not do rather than do…” Arthur Gordon
5th Sunday of Easter
May 2, 2021
Self-Revealing Spirit of God:
Faith as a Concrete Response
*What the Bible says about a family living a life of hope.
(Easter and Eastertide Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE1
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
Let us welcome the children: “Jesus Loves Me”. “Jesus loves me! This I know. For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong; they are weak, but he is strong. Yes! Jesus loves me, Yes! Jesus loves me. Yes! Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so”.
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION (In unison after 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. (Matthew 6:9-13)
SHARING LOVE & PEACE in PLACE
“For I was hungry, and you fed me. I was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was a stranger, and you invited me into your home.”
GREETING GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
Greeting2
Oh Lord, your wondrous birth means nothing unless we are born again,
your death and sacrifice mean nothing unless we die to sin, your resurrection means nothing if you be risen alone.
Raise and exalt us, O Savior, both now to the estate of grace and hereafter to the state of glory;
where with the Father and the Holy Spirit you live and reign, God for ever and ever Amen
(Matt 25:35 NLV)
HYMN #384
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”
Liturgist: Judy L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
1CCLI#1492484 CCVI#504140810
2United Methodist Book of Worship, Copyright © 1992 The United Methodist Publishing House
P. Thanks be to God SERMON
SCRIPTURE READING
John 15: 1-8
“Get Up and Go”
PRAISE AND WORSHIP SCRIPTURE READING
Chris Pfleegor
L. The Word of God for the people of God
Acts 8: 26-40
