RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY
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.
*HYMN #620 “One Bread, One Body” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Irish Blessing” (video on screen) ————————————————————————————————-
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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
March 12, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“There is a river of flowing water
that flows over the broken difficult places in our hearts bringing healing and refreshment to the weary soul.” –Nan Jones (nanjones.com)
3nd Sunday in Lent
March 12, 2023
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.”
1 John 4:9
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today. CALL TO WORSHIP:2
Welcome pilgrims on the way to the cross.
We are learning to follow Jesus.
The way is long, and we are thirsty.
We seek the living waters of Jesus.
We feel the weight of scarcity warring with hopeful whispers of abundance.
We need the living waters of Jesus.
We wonder if God will provide us with what we need, here and now.
As God gives us the living waters of Jesus, so God calls us to quench the thirst and meet the needs of our neighbors.
Pilgrims on the way, come let us worship God!
We come to worship God as we learn to live inside out! Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING: Melissa Maines Exodus 17:1-7
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children:
“Jesus Love Us”
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.
SCRIPTURE READING
*HYMN #89
1 /CCLI#1492484
2 / Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Director of Worship Arts, August 2022. 3 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
L. P.
CHORUS:
SERMON
John 4:5-42
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
