Weekly bulletin
RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
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 #700 “Abide in Me”
Words on screen
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #666 ” Shalom to You” ————————————————————————————————-
Attendance and Financial Information – September 18, 2022 Worship – 85 Online engaged and viewed – 14
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860 Pastor’s church office hours : Mon., Tues, & Wed. 9 – 12 am
Parsonage Telephone: 814-345-6931 Pastor Julia Cell: 814-883-8602
Daycare telephone: 814-345-3809 Church Email address: gumc.office@gmail.com Church Website: www.gethsemanechurch.org WiFi Password: Trustinchrist
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
September 25, 2022 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” Oscar Wilde
16th Sunday after Pentecost
September 25, 2022
In our friendship, we are a people of Spirit
*What the Bible says about the experience of the Spirit.
(Pentecost Series)
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS
GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
CALL TO WORSHIP:
Leader: Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,
People: for his steadfast love endures forever.
Leader: Give thanks to the God of gods,
People: for his steadfast love endures forever.
Leader: Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
People: for his steadfast love endures forever.
Opening Prayer: Holy God, let us never forget that we are created and loved by you. May the love we have for you be revealed through this time of worship. Let our songs lift your name on high and may our words and actions celebrate your goodness. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
*HYMN #185
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
” When Morning Gilds the Skies” Words on screen
SCRIPTURE READING
Psalm 139:1-18
Liturgist:
Cindy Williams
SCRIPTURE READING
John 9:1-12
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
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) Reverend Julia Piper
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON ” Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”
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2 /(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
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