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 #173 “Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies”
Sing to the tune of “For the Beauty of the Earth”
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “May the Road Rise to Meet You”
By Lori True
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Attendance and Financial Information February 23, 2025
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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
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
March 2, 2025
9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car
with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Every once and so often, something so touching,
so incandescent, so alive transfigures the human face
that it’s almost beyond bearing.”
– Frederick BuechnerMarch 2, 2025
Transfiguration Sunday
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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 at Gethsemane today.
CALL TO WORSHIP
L: Lord, you have called us to the mountaintop.
P: Help us to look forward to where you would have us go.
L: Help us to listen carefully to the words of your healing love.
P: Open our hearts and spirits to receive your glorious directions.
L: Place your trust in the Lord in all your ways.
P: Lord, we have come here to give our lives to you. AMEN.
Call to Worship retrieved from ministrymatters.com
*OPENING SONG “Shine Jesus Shine” #2173
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SCRIPTURE READING Exodus 34: 29-35 Wayne Bambarger
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 9: 28-36 Pastor Julia Piper
MESSAGE: From the Mountaintop to the Valleys: Transfiguration
HOLY COMMUNION
