L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
MESSAGE : “Being Present-With Hope” HOLY COMMUNION:
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 #196 ” Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” ( on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Shalom to You ” ( on screen)
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“Being Present-With Hope”
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
December 3, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Christmas is not a story of hope. It is hope.”
Craig Lounsbrough.
1 st Day of Advent
December 3, 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
Reader: We unwrap a present on this first Sunday of Advent with great anticipation for the gift that God will reveal. People: We open our hearts as we open the gift!
Reader: The promise of Hope is the Divine Gift we receive. People: And what will we do with it?
Reader: The gift of hope is an essential survival tool
because it reminds us that the hard times do not have the last word. Hope is not simply a wish.
Hope calls us into action based on a belief that things can be different. We can work to bring about the better world that we hope for. People: We light this Candle of Hope as a sign that we will be Present with Hope in the world.
Chorus:
What can I give Him, poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would bring a lamb; If I were a Wise [One], I would do my part; Yet what can I give Him: I will give my heart)
OPENING PRAYER:
Holy Living Light of God, you are our Hopeful Presence. Let this hope grow in our lives each day,
so we can be a Present of Hope to others.
Unwrap and open our hearts.
May it be so. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING:
Judy Larson
SCRIPTURE READING
Mark 13:24-37
Julia Piper
1 Corinthians 1:3-9
L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
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
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE “Jesus Loves Me”
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
1 /CCLI#1492484 CCVI#50414082 / (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
