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
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.
*Doxology # 221 “In the Bleak Midwinter” vs. 4
*HYMN #220 “Angels from the Realms of Glory”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #204 “Emmanuel, Emmanuel” ————————————————————————————————-
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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
December 5, 2021 9:00 am
“Regarding masking and distancing
to prevent COVID-19 transmission in our facility, we ask you to act as you feel comfortable.”
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
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!
“We light this candle, the candle of peace, as a sign of our assurance that though the road is hard, we believe it is worth the journey. It is time to go home.”
Derek Weber
Helpers Today 12/05/21 Liturgist Judy Larson Nursery Maria & Katie
Helpers Next Week 12/12/21 Liturgist Judy Larson Nursery Anna & Kim
2nd Sunday of Advent
December 5, 2021
What we do together as brothers and sisters
*What the Bible says about seeing the sacred in the ancient way of life.
(Advent Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION:
O God,
just as we look into a mirror to see any soiled spots on our face, so let us look to you
in order to understand the things that we have done amiss. We are like a reed shaken in the wind;
we are inexpressibly weak.
Leave us not to ourselves,
but dwell in our hearts and guide our thoughts and actions. 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.
HYMN #230
“O Little Town of Bethlehem”
SCRIPTURE READING
Liturgist: Judy Larson L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
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2 The United Methodist Hymnal, (Korea, 20th cent. @ 1942 Harper& Row, Publishers, Inc.)
SERMON
“Fear of Home”
Malachi 3:1-4
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”.
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.”
HYMN
SCRIPTURE READING
(Matt 25:35 NLV)
Chris Pfleegor
Luke 3:1-6
L. The Word of God for the people of God P. Thanks be to God
