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 UMH # 139 “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty”
(on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Stay in love With God”
( on screen)
Do no harm by any word or deed;
do good wherever there is need.
Remain attentive to God’s word.
Stay in love with God, Stay in love with God. (Repeat)
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Attendance and Financial Information – September 3, 2023
Worship – 82 Online engaged and viewed 336
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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 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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
September 10, 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!
“No one can make you feel inferior
without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
15th Sunday after Pentecost
September 10, 2023
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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
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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
Our heavenly Father, we your humble children invoke your blessing
on us.
We adore you, whose name is love, whose nature is
compassion, whose presence is joy, whose Word is truth, whose
Spirit is goodness, whose holiness is beauty, whose will is peace,
whose service is perfect freedom, and in knowledge of whom stands
our eternal life.
Unto you be all honor and all glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
*HYMN # 89 “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee”
( on screen)
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#5041408
2 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
SCRIPTURE READING: Tom Hampton
Psalm 31:19-24
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN‘S MESSAGE “Jesus Loves Me”
JOYS AND CONCERNS “I Cast All My Cares Upon You”
I cast all my cares upon you.
I lay all of my burdens down at Your feet.
And anytime that I don’t know what to do,
I will cast all my cares upon you
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 Josh Maines
Jude 1:17-21
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
MESSAGE: Simple Rules: “Stay in Love with God”
