RESPONSE TO THE WORLD OFFERING
*Doxology # 95 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow” *HYMN #251 “Go Tell It on the Mountain”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #204 “Emmanuel, Emmanuel”
Attendance and Financial Information –December 19, 2021
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.
Worship –61
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
December 26, 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
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If you have an infant or child with you today (newborn to three years old), PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff please feel free to use the staffed nursery at the end of the first hallway.
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
Helpers Today 12/26/21 Liturgist Judy Larson Nursery Amber & Katie
Helpers Next Week 01/2/22 Liturgist Wayne Bambarger Nursery Maria & Kim
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Not only is ‘what happened to you?’
the key question if you want to understand someone, it is the key question if you want to understand the brain…The result is that each of our brains is unique.”
Dr. Bruce Perry
Last Sunday of 2021
and 1st Sunday after Christmas
December 26, 2021
We carry the light as sisters and brothers
*What the Bible says about making sense of the world.
(Winter Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
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.”
(Matt 25:35 NLV)
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
SCRIPTURE READING Chris Pfleegor Ecclesiastes 3:1-13
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “For Everything There is a Season”
GREETING : 2
Christ is born; give him glory!
Christ has come down from heaven; receive him!
Christ is now on earth; exalt him!
O you earth, sing to the Lord!
O you nations, praise him in joy, for he has been glorified!
Amen.
Liturgist: Judy Larson L. The word of God for the people of God.
P.ThanksbetoGod
HYMN #229 “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly”
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 TRADITIONAL BYZANTINE CHRISTMAS PRAYER, ALT.) The United Methodist Book of Worship
SCRIPTURE READING
Matthew 25:31-40
