RESPONSE TO THE WORD
OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY
OFFERING: Feelfreetoplaceyourgifts,offerings,andtithesinthe container in the aisle behind the last pew, as you enter. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
*HYMN #3104 “Amazing Grace!” (My chains are gone) (on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSINGCHORUS: “MaytheRoadRiseUptoMeetYou”–IrishBlessing May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be ever at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
May the rain fall softly on your fields, and until we meet again, may youkeepsafeinthegentle,lovingarmsofGod. (Repeat)
Attendance and Financial Information April 7, 2024 Worship–104 Onlineengagedandviewed-350
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
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
April 14, 2024 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Love is stronger than fear, but fear will win out unless we allow love to empower sacrificial action in the world.
Love is stronger than fear, but only if we participate in love. Only as we entrust ourselves to love.
Only as we allow love to nourish us.”
Amy Julia Becker
3rd Sunday of Easter
April 14, 2024
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 at Gethsemane today.
OPENING PRAYER:
God of Hope, we see your love poured out for us in all the world. Make us more like you.
Teach us to live together as one community human and beyond-human, creature and created to your glory, so your love is known among all the living.
SCRIPTURE READING Wayne Bambarger
1 John 3:1-7
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE
JOYS AND CONCERNS
“Jesus Loves Me”
“I Cast All My Cares Upon You”
Amen.
*OPENING HYMN
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.
PRAISE TEAM
SCRIPTURE READING Pastor Julia Piper
Luke 24:36b-48
L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
328 “Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place”
(on screen)
MESSAGE:
” Love Conquers Fear “
1 /CCLI#1492484
2 /CCLI#15041408 (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.) Written by Rev. Laurie Bayen and Rev. Laura Baumgartner. Rev. Bayen, Cotati, CA
