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 ready.)
OFFERING
*Doxology # 95 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” *HYMN #361 “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me” *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
November 14, 2021 9:00 am
Also available by
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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!
“Relational power can only be built upon relationships between people, and listening to and sharing
with each other builds such relationships.” Robert C. Linthicum
Feel free to place your gifts, offerings, and tithes in the container in the aisle behind the last pew, as you enter.. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
25th Sunday after Pentecost
November 14, 2021
Who my sisters and brothers are
*What the Bible says about the importance of practicing together.
(Fall 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
“Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart. Here is the citadel of all my desiring,
where my hopes are born
and all the deep resolutions of my spirit take wings. In this center, my fears are nourished,
and all my hates are nurtured. Here my loves are cherished,
and all the deep hungers of my spirit are honored without quivering and without shock.
In my heart, above all else,
let love and integrity envelop me
until my love is perfected and the last vestige
of my desiring is no longer in conflict with thy Spirit. Lord, I want to be more holy in my heart. 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.
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#504140810
2 Howard Thurman, USA, 20th cent. By permission of Anne Thurman The United Methodist Hymnal
SCRIPTURE READING
Liturgist:
Cindy Williams
Hebrew 9:11-14
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
HYMN #117
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
“O God Our Help in Ages Past”
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”.
JOYS AND CONCERNS
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.”
(Matt 25:35 NLV) “How Great Is Our God”
HYMN
SCRIPTURE READING
Chris Pfleegor L. The Word of God for the people of God
Mark 12:28-34
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Those Who Seek to Live in Relationship”
