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.
*CLOSING SONG #548 “In Christ There Is No East or West”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #347 “Spirit Song”
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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. 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
9 – 12 am
The altar flowers are in memory of
Pauline Haines Pelton
by her daughter, Leslie Pelton Yarger
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
January 26, 2025
9:00 am
Also available by
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with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“The truth is,
Jesus may not always meet our expectations,
but He will always exceed them.”
from https://www.fbcdesoto.com
January 26, 2025
Third Sunday after the Epiphany
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
CALL TO WORSHIP by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries,
Children of God, we come to worship today with expectations: how we
expect to feel, what we expect to experience, songs we expect to sing, or
prayers we expect to pray. We find comfort in the familiar.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here.
Sometimes what feels familiar grows stale. We stop noticing the power of
our prayers. We hear but don’t listen to the Word. We sing without letting the
music seep into our hearts. Yet, God is still here, moving and working
among us.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here.
We may meet God in a familiar voice speaking a hard word, in a song we
love that pierces our hearts, in a prayer that we receive in a new way.
Because God is here, moving and working among us.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here.
Children of God, come! Let us worship, ready to embrace God’s Word
already at work among us, even when we are challenged to recognize God
in the familiar and unfamiliar alike.
We come to worship, expecting God to meet us here. Thanks be to
God! Amen.
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MEDITATION MINUTE: Ashleigha Grossi
*OPENING SONG “Give Me Jesus” words on screen
SCRIPTURE READING First Corinthians 12: 12 – 31a Missy Maines
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE “Jesus Loves Me” (on screen)
Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong; they are weak, but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
SONG OF PRAYER: #2193 “Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying”
(on screen)
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 Luke 4: 14-21 Pastor Julia Piper
MESSAGE: “Moving Beyond Our Expectations”
