RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
SACRAMENT OF HOLY COMMUNION
(Please pick up a prepackaged Communion pack, when you arrive. If worshiping 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 # 95 “Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow”
*HYMN #2112 “Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #395 “Take Time to Be Holy” (V1) ————————————————————————————————-
Attendance and Financial Information – February 27, 2022 Worship – 62 Online engaged and viewed———————————————————————————
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
March 6, 2022 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“God does not bring unjust suffering upon God’s children. But God will, however, force such things
to serve God’s good purposes.”
“Why? Making Sense of God’s Will.”
1st Sunday of Lent
March 6, 2022
Simplicity as a mark of brotherhood and sisterhood
*What the Bible says about the importance of practicing together.
(Spring Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
PRAYER OF CONFESSION:
God, we have to admit that we don’t like Ash Wednesday. We would rather skip the penitence and soul-searching of Lent and skip right to the joy of Easter morning. The world teaches us that mistakes are awful and should be covered up at all cost. We learn to blame others instead of owning up to what
we do and the pain we inflict.
Lord God, give us the strength in this time of Lent to as for forgiveness for the hurt we cause and the mistakes we make. Remind us that the difficulties of life form and shape us. Teach us how to turn back to you, to love our neighbor, and to reach out to those who suffer
Loving God, we know Jesus spent forty days in the desert preparing for his ministry to the world. We ask that you use these forty days of Lent to prepare us for our mission to the world in Jesus’ name. 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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SCRIPTURE READING Liturgist: Judy Larson Psalm 91:9-16
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)
Chris Pfleegor
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Why does God allow the innocent to suffer?”
HYMN
SCRIPTURE READING
Luke 4:1-13
