RESPONSE TO THE WORD
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 # 381 “ Savior Like a Shepherd Lead Us ” (words on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING

CLOSING CHORUS # 347 “Spirit Song (words 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
April 30, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that
Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly
what He is doing with us. He understands
us perfectly.” –W. Phillip Keller

4th Sunday of Easter

April 30, 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.
OPENING PRAYER: 2
Oh God, you are a mighty God! Nothing is as great as you. You overturn evil. You hand out justice and blessings. For you, the impossible is possible. You can even make those who died live again!
O Mighty God, continue to hold us. Do not take your hand from us. Send into our lives people who are like angels to keep watch over us, to keep us from harming others or being harmed. Make us your angels. Make us one people with the entire world, united by the blood and love of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING:
Tom Hampton
*HYMN

98 ” ToGodBetheGlory”

John 10: 1-10
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
Psalm 23
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.
PRAISE AND WORSHIP
SCRIPTURE READING Reverend Julia Piper
1 /CCLI#1492484
2 /Adapted from: The Africans Worship Book Resources, 2006, 65. Written by Sherrie Dobbs Johnson.
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MESSAGE:
CCVI#5041408
3 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
“Soul Shepherd”