RESPONSE TO THE WORD
OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY
OFFERING: Feel free to place your gifts, offerings, and tithes in the
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #347 “Spirit Song” ( on screen)
Attendance and Financial Information – June 11, 2023
Worship – 90 Sunday School – 7 Online engaged and viewed – 433
Other Giving is Ghana Medical Relief Love Offering
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860 Pastor’s church office hours : Mon., Tues, & Wed. 9 – 12 am
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
June 18, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
container in the aisle behind the last pew, as you enter. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
*HYMN #389 “Freely, Freely” ( on screen)
“Our Lord’s conception of discipleship is not that we work for God,
but that God works through us.” Oswald Chambers
3rd Sunday after Pentecost
June 18, 2023
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, how wonderful are your works!
SCRIPTURE READING:
Penny Bickel
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
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE JOYS AND CONCERNS
Let us welcome the children: “Jesus Love Me”
Genesis 18: 1-15
L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
Your goodness flows from the throne room of God into our
lives, community and world.
Together, let us celebrate stepping forward into new places
among new people with new experiences.
Let us never forget to say thank you for the blessings we have
as we celebrate your goodness.
Matthew 9:35 – Matthew 10: 8
In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
*HYMN #77 “How Great Thou Art” ( on screen)
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 /(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
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)
RECOGNIZING 2023 GRADUATES GREETING AND SHARING GOD’S PEACE
Sharing Joy by greeting each other from where you are seated.
SCRIPTURE READING Reverend Julia Piper
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God MESSAGE: “Freely Give”
HOLY COMMUNION
