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 #620 “One Bread, One Body” *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #666 “Shalom to You”
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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
October 3, 2021 9:00 am
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If you have an infant or child with you today (newborn to three years old), please feel free to use the staffed nursery at the end of the first hallway. ——————————————————————————————-
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Jesus calls his followers to embrace
the power of commitment to him
and to the building of God’s shalom kingdom.”
Robert C. Linthicum
World Communion Sunday
October 3, 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.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION: 2
“O God, just as the disciples heard Christ’s words of promise and began to eat the bread and drink the wine in the suffering of a long remembrance and in the joy of hope, grant that we may hear your words, spoken in each thing of everyday affairs:
Coffee, on our table in the morning;
the simple gesture of opening a door to go out, free; the shouts of children in the parks;
a familiar song, sung by an unfamiliar face;
a friendly tree that has not yet been cut down.
May simple things speak to us of your mercy, and tell us that life can be good. And may these sacramental gifts make us remember those who do not
receive them:
who have their lives cut every day, in the bread absent from the table;
in the door of the hospital, the prison, the welfare home that does not open; in sad children, feet without shoes, eyes without hope;
in war hymns that glorify death;
in deserts where once there was life.
Christ was also sacrificed; and may we learn that we participate in the saving sacrifice of Christ when we participate in the suffering of his little ones.
Amen.”
WORDS OF PARDON
L: Hear the good news: Christ died for us while we were yet sinners; that proves God’s love toward us.
In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
P: In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven!
All: Glory to God. Amen.
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2 Rubem Alves, Brazil, 20th cent.
SCRIPTURE READING Liturgist: Wayne Bambarger Hebrews 2:10-12
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
HYMN #189 “Fairest Lord Jesus”
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.”
PRAISE AND WORSHIP SCRIPTURE READING
(Matt 25:35 NLV)
Chris Pfleegor
SERMON
“Those who Struggle to Understand”
Mark 10:2-16
L. The Word of God for the people of God P. Thanks be to God
The United Methodist Hymnal, I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body, trans @ 1986 Fortress Press
