RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
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 #514 “Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus” *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #114 “Many Gifts, One Spirit” (V1)
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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
August 22, 2021 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“The most important things I’ve learned
have come through a person who modeled a practice and then explained it to me,
encouraged me to try it,
and sometimes checked in later to see how I was doing.”
Brian McClaren
13th Sunday after Pentecost
August 22, 2021
Why we are brothers and sisters
*What the Bible says about spiritual practices as a way of life.
(Summer Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
OPENING PRAYER:
“Oh Lord our God,
you are always more ready to bestow your good gifts on us
than we are to seek them,
and are willing to give more than we desire or deserve. Help us so to seek that we may truly find,
so to ask that we may joyfully receive,
so to knock that the door of your mercy may be opened to us; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.”
SCRIPTURE READING Liturgist: Judy Larson John 6:56 -59
L. The word of God for the people of God.
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”.
BLESSING OF THE GETHSEMANE DAYCARE PROGRAM
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.”
P. Thanks be to God HYMN #514
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#504140810
“Standing on the Promises”
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Ambassador in Chains”
PRAISE AND WORSHIP SCRIPTURE READING
Chris Pfleegor Ephesians 5:18 – 20
(Matt 25:35 NLV)
2 United Methodist Book of Worship (The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England, 20th CENT., , ALT.
