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: What can I give him? Poor as I am, If I were a shepherd, I would give a lamb. If I were a wise man, I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give him: Give him my heart
*HYMN #246 “Joy to the World” (Words on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #251 “Go Tell It On the Mountain” (chorus, verse 1, chorus)
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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
December 11, 2022 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Joy does not simply happen to us.
We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” Henri J.M. Nouwen
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3 rd Sunday of Advent
December 11, 2022
In our friendship, we are a people of Spirit
*What the Bible says about the experience of the Spirit.
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
OPENING PRAYER:
Holy God, on this day we press the “pause button” to worship you. As we gather, we are reminded that many places in the world need your joy. As we pour out our hearts to you in worship, fill us with your Holy Spirit so our joy can overflow into the world. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
LIGHTING OF THE ADVENT CANDLE:
SCRIPTURE READING: Isaiah 35:1-10 Liturgist: Missy Maines L. The word of God for the people of God.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children:
Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky
Looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus Asleep on the hay.
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 Reverend Julia Piper
Matthew 11:2-11
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON A Charlie Brown Reflection: “Finding Joy”
P. Thanks be to God
89 ” Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee”
1 /CCLI#1492484
2 /(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
*HYMN
CCVI#5041408
