ESPONSE 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.
*HYMN #278 “Hosanna, Hosanna, The Little Children Sang” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “God Be With You Till We Meet Again”
(First and Last Verse) ( on screen) ————————————————————————————————-
Attendance and Financial Information – March 26, 2023
Worship – 97 Online engaged and viewed –
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
2
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
April 2, 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!
“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does,
we won’t need to tell anybody it does.
Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining –
they just shine.”
Dwight L. Moody
Palm Sunday
April 2, 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.
Following the Announcements, the children will be dismissed for Children’s Church. Children’s Church will be having an Easter Egg hunt this morning.
CALL TO WORSHIP:2
Give thanks to God for God is good;
God’s steadfast love endures forever! Hosanna!
We give thanks to God who answers us, for God is our saving help!
The stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone! Hosanna!
Our salvation is at hand!
It is marvelous to behold! Hosanna!
This is the day that the Lord has made!
Let us rejoice and be glad! Hosanna!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!
Come save us, Lord! Hosanna!
Give thanks to God for God is good;
God’s steadfast love endures forever! Hosanna!
*HYMN #277 ” Tell Me The Stories of Jesus” ( on screen)
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 / General Board of Discipleship Adapted from Psalm 118:1, 19-29 in the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition and the Common English Bible.
3 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
HOLY BAPTISM: Ivan Bush, Son of Alex and Justin Bush
SCRIPTURE READING:
Isaiah 50:4-9A
Tom Hampton
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God 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
Matthew 21:1-11
L. The Word of God for the people of God P. Thanks be to God
MEDITATION:
Shout Hosanna!
“From the Cradle to the Cross”
Written by: Michael Crandall & Donna Pieffer
Scenes from the Miracles and Triumphant Entry into Jerusalem
