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 #555 ” Forward Through the Ages ”
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 – November 19, 2023
Worship – 113 Online engaged and viewed- 254
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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
“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.”
Ezekiel 34: 11 NIVGethsemane United Methodist Church
November 26, 2023
9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming on 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!
My friends, arise! Make yourselves ready
To give thanks to our Savior King,
Who will come in His glory and make us joyful
With His joyous Light in the Kingdom
(Retrieved from: https://anastpaul.com)
26th Sunday after Pentecost
November 26, 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: 1 Prayer for Christ the King Sunday
Oh Jesus, You are the King of Glory, You are the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings. And we pray that your Kingdom will reign forever in our hearts and in this world.
Lord, we pray for your Kingdom to come here now, bringing a kingdom of justice, righteousness, hope, love, peace, mercy and grace for all. Lord, we ask that you rule in our hearts, lead in this world and govern over your kingdom.
But Lord honestly, We often have our own plans and agendas and we want to be rulers of our world. Forgive us for those times. And Lord we live in a time that would rather idolize the King of Pop than worship you. Help us to know how to live as your Kingdom People in these times. And Lord there are a lot of Kings in this world who terrorize, over tax, humiliate, over exploit, and abuse those they are to lead. Help us to spread the good news of the different kind of King you are.
Lord, thank you for being a different kind of King. Thank you for your goodness and kindness in our lives. Thank you for your generosity.
Thank you for loving us. Thank you for your Kingdom that is unlike any
Kingdom in this world.— Rev. Abi, on her Long and Winding Road blog.
*HYMN p. 2074 ” Shout to the Lord” ( on screen)
SCRIPTURE READING: Penny Bickel
Ezekiel 34: 11-16, 20-24
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.
WORSHIP IN SONG WITH PRAISE TEAM
SCRIPTURE READING Pastor Julia Piper
Matthew 25: 31-46
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
MESSAGE “ The Final Exam “
