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.
Offering Response: #221 “In the Bleak Midwinter” (Verse 4)
and women
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 #254 ” We Three Kings” *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #251 “Go Tell It On the Mountain” ————————————————————————————————-
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Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff
Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860
Pastor’schurchofficehours: Mon.,Tues,&Wed. 9-12am 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
January 1, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Don’t leave Jesus in the Manger; don’t remember Him only at Christmas. Instead, learn to walk with Him every day, as you pray and read His Word
and ask Him to help you.”
Billy Graham
Epiphany Sunday January 1, 2023
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.
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
OPENING PRAYER:
Holy God, as we celebrate Epiphany, guide us toward your
perfect light. Like the Magi, let us glorify and worship you
with all our gifts. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
*HYMN # 219 SCRIPTURE READING:
“What Child Is This” Isaiah 60: 1-9
SHARING CHRISTMAS JOY
SCRIPTURE READING
(Matthew 6:9-13)
Reverend Julia Piper
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.
Sharing Christmas Joy by greeting each other
from where you are seated.
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
Matthew 2: 1-12
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Wise Men (Women) Still Seek Him” HOLY COMMUNION
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2 /(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
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