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 #572 “Pass It On”
( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Spirit Song” ( 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
May 21, 2023 9:00 am
Also available by
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside,
but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit. –Mac Anderson
7th Sunday of Easter
May 21, 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
Holy God of Power and Light, we come before you to worship you on this day. During our time together, we ask that the same power that raised Jesus from the dead will live in us. May that power
propel us to go into the world and share your Good News. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING:
Wayne Bambarger
Acts 1:6-14
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God. CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
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
“Lord I Lift Your Name on HIgh” ( on screen)
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2 /(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
John 17:1-11
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
“Dunamis (Dynamite) Power”
*HYMN
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