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 #117 “O God Our Help in Ages Past” ( 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. ————————————————————————————————-
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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
“Passing the Baton” Gethsemane United Methodist Church
October 29, 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!
“Every parent is like Moses.
They do not enter the promised land. They prepare a world they will not see.”
Adapted from: Pope Paul VI
(Repeat)
22th Sunday after Pentecost
October 29, 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. CALL TO WORSHIP:2
God, we know you are with us.
From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
You have showered your love upon all generations, since the beginning of time.
From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Guide us now through this time of worship,
and into the week ahead.
From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
SCRIPTURE READING: Pam Hampton Deuteronomy 34:1-12
L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
*HYMN
64 ” Holy, Holy, Holy ”
( on screen)
CCVI#5041408 P. Thanks be to God 2 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.) Retrieved from ministrymatters.com
MESSAGE “Passing the Baton”
1 /CCLI#1492484
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE JOYS AND CONCERNS
“Jesus Loves Me”
“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.
WORSHIP TEAM
SCRIPTURE READING
Matthew 22:34-46
L. The word of God for the people of God.
Julia Piper
