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 #454 “Open My Eyes That I May See” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Irish Blessing” ( 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’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
March 19, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
–Helen Keller
4th Sunday in Lent
March 19, 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.
On this Lenten journey, where do we find God’s presence among us?
One thing we know: God calls us to witness extraordinary love in ordinary moments.
On this Lenten journey, how does God’s presence work among us? One thing we know: God uses the messy and mundane to heal and restore us to one another.
On this Lenten journey, what does God’s presence do in our midst?
One thing we know: God opens us to recognize presence, sustenance, and abundance where the world perceives isolation and lack.
Pilgrims on the way, come let us worship God!
We come to worship God! Amen.
*HYMN #349 ” Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” ( on screen)
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 / Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Director of Worship Arts, August 2022. Adapted for worship 3/23. 3 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
SCRIPTURE READING: Melissa Maines 1 Samuel 16:1-13
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
Reverend Julia Piper
L. P.
SERMON
John 9:1-41
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
“An Eye Opening Experience”
