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 #382 “ Have Thine Own Way Lord “ ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #673 “God Be With You Till We Meet Again“
( on screen)
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Attendance and Financial Information – July 30, 2023
Worship – 104 Online engaged and viewed 176
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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
August 6, 2023
9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car
with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“The struggle you are in today,
is developing the strength
you need for tomorrow.”
— Robert Tew
10th Sunday after Pentecost
August 6, 2023
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This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son 2into the world that we might live through him.”
1 John 4:9
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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, we gather in this sacred space seeking a Holy encounter with you.
As we wrestle with our questions, doubts, and reasons for everyday struggles, may we be enlightened by the Holy Spirit and greatly blessed by you.
We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
*HYMN # 64 “Holy, Holy, Holy,! Lord God Almighty”
( on screen)
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
SCRIPTURE READING: Amber Gisewhite
Genesis 32:22-31
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE “Jesus Loves Me”
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.
WORSHIP TEAM
SCRIPTURE READING Julia Piper
Matthew 14:13-21
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
MESSAGE: ” Jacob: An Overcomer “
