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 221 “In the Bleak Midwinter” (verse 4) *HYMN #246 “Joy to the World”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #204 “Emmanuel, Emmanuel”
Attendance and Financial Information –December 05, 2021
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
December 12, 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 joy,
as a sign that we are on our way home,
and we walk with a skip in our step because we can see the destination, and it is pure joy. It is time to go home.”
Derek Weber
Worship –65 Genera
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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
Helpers Today 12/12/21 Liturgist Judy Larson Nursery Anna & Kim
Helpers Next Week 12/19/21 Liturgist Judy Larson Nursery Deana
3rd Sunday of Advent
December 12, 2021
What we do together as brothers and sisters
*What the Bible says about seeing the sacred in the ancient way of life together.
(Advent Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING People
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today. CALL TO WORSHIP: 2
ADVENT WREATH LIGHTING 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)
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”.
People:
Leader:
People:
Leader:
People:
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Sing! Sing to the Lord a new song!
for “new every mornings” mercies, for ” what the Lord has done for you!
Sing! Sing to the Lord a new song!
for forgiving the sin that only you and God know about, for grace that is more than sufficient.
Sing! Sing to the Lord a new song!
for “new every mornings” mercies, for ” what the Lord has done for you!
PRAISE AND WORSHIP SCRIPTURE READING
SCRIPTURE READING Liturgist: Judy Larson Zephaniah 3:14-15
Chris Pfleegor
L. The Word of God for the people of God
HYMN
1 /CCLI#1492484 2/Kwasi I. Kena
224 “Good Christian Friends, Rejoice”
CCVI#5041408 @2007 Discipleship Resources
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
P. Thanks be to God SERMON “Joy of Home”
Luke 3:8-16
