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 #560 “Help Us Accept Each Other”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #733 “Marching to Zion” (V1)
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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
May 15, 2022
9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car
with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“People with a high level of personal mastery
share several basic characteristics.
They have a special sense of purpose
that lies behind their visions and goals.
For such a person, a vision is a calling
rather than simply a good idea.”
Peter Senge
5th Sunday of Easter
May 15, 2022
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As sisters and brothers we rise up in hope
*What the Bible says about the importance of practicing together.
(Eastertide Series)
(*Indicates people standing, if able)
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PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS
GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
GREETING:
Almighty God, through your only Son you overcame death
and opened to us the gate of everlasting life.
Grant that we who celebrate our Lord’s resurrection,
by the renewing of your Spirit,
arise from the death of sin to the life of righteousness;
through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen..
SCRIPTURE READING Liturgist: Barbara Crain
Acts 11:1-4, 15-18
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
*HYMN #62 ” All Creatures of Our God and King”
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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)
*WORSHIP AND PRAISE
SCRIPTURE READING Chris Pfleegor
John 13:31-35
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Hope Involves Planning”
