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 #714 “I Know Whom I Have Believed” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Irish Blessing” (video on screen) ————————————————————————————————-
Attendance and Financial Information – March 19, 2023

Gethsemane United Methodist Church
2PO 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 26, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Redemption is God choosing us Restoration is us consistently choosing God.

5th Sunday in Lent

March 26, 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 journey is long, and the burden of our sins and struggles feels so heavy.
Yet we will hope in God because with God, there is steadfast love.
All around us, we witness neighbors and communities who are lifeless, despairing that they could ever be revived.
Yet God tells us that to come back to life, we must come together.
Year after year of change and struggle have taken their toll—how can anyone bring forth life when we feel so parched and tired?
Yet God meets the lifeless with the breath of life, reviving us again to worship and follow God’s way.
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
*HYMN

420 ” Breathe On Me Breath of God” ( on screen)

L. P.
1 /CCLI#1492484
2 / Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Director of Worship Arts, August 2022. 3 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
CCVI#5041408
Ezekiel 37:1-14
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.
SPECIAL MUSIC
Cindy Etchison
SCRIPTURE READING
Reverend Julia Piper
“In the Arms of Love”
John 11:1-45
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
SERMON
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Phyllis & Bernie Bush, & Kyle Bloom