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.)
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: “One Loaf” (see insert and words on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #666 ” Shalom to You” ————————————————————————————————-
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Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
October 2, 2022 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.”
C. S. Lewis
Pastor’s church office hours : Mon., Tues, & Wed. Parsonage Telephone: 814-345-6931
9 – 12 am
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

17th Sunday after Pentecost

October 2, 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.
OPENING PRAYER (In Unison):2
God of dreams and visions, open us to your Word today. Give us a spirit of generosity to equip your children around the world with tools to build up peace, justice and righteousness. As we receive your holy meal, fill us with the energy of a runner, ready to share your vision of love and grace. We pray in Jesus’ name. Amen
Leader: God declared to the prophet Habakkuk “there is still a vision for the appointed time” (Habakkuk 2:3, NRSV). Today we gather in this time and place to praise God, celebrate Holy Communion with Christians around the world.
One Voice: We come today trusting in God.
One Voice: We come today delighting in God.
All: We come today ready to worship in the fullness of God’s community. We come today ready to build up peace, justice and righteousness.
SCRIPTURE READING Liturgist: Tom Hampton 1 Corinthians 12.12-27
*HYMN
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God

349 “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” Words on screen

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.”
PRAISE AND WORSHIP SCRIPTURE READING
(Matt 25:35 NLV) Reverend Julia Piper
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 /(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
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John 1:20-23
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God SERMON ” One Body”

One Loaf (sung to the tune of “Be Thou My Vision”)
Like wheat that’s made into one loaf of bread, we are one Body with Christ as our head grateful for grace guiding us from above,
we are one people, one Spirit, one love.
Spirit, you live in us, in each and in all, giving us each gifts to answer your call. Your gift is in every soul, every heart. each of us needed to offer our part.
Give us the faith, God, to go where you lead, act as your loving and kind mustard seeds. Send us in love to the world so in need, spreading your good news in word and in deed.
One Loaf (sung to the tune of “Be Thou My Vision”)
Like wheat that’s made into one loaf of bread, we are one Body with Christ as our head grateful for grace guiding us from above,
we are one people, one Spirit, one love.
Spirit, you live in us, in each and in all, giving us each gifts to answer your call. Your gift is in every soul, every heart. each of us needed to offer our part.
Give us the faith, God, to go where you lead, act as your loving and kind mustard seeds. Send us in love to the world so in need, spreading your good news in word and in deed.