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)
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 “The Summons” (on screen) *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS # 347 “Spirit Song” ————————————————————————————————-
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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
January 8, 2023 9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched,
they are felt with the heart.”.
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
― Unknown.
BAPTISM OF THE LORD
January 8, 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.
OPENING PRAYER:
Holy God, as we come to celebrate your Baptism, help us remember our Baptism. We pray you will open the gates of heaven and pour your waters of life upon us. Let us respond by claiming you because you first
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children: Jesus loves me
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)
GREETING AND SHARING GOD’S PEACE
Sharing Joy by greeting each other from where you are seated.
WORSHIP MUSIC LED BY PRAISE TEAM SCRIPTURE READING Reverend Julia Piper
Matthew 3: 13-17
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Remember Whose You Are”
claimed us.
*HYMN
We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING:
617
“I Come With Joy” Isaiah 42:1-9
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
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