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 # 357 *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Just As I Am, Without One Plea”
“May the Road Rise to Meet You”
By Lori True
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Attendance and Financial Information March 2, 2025
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Gethsemane United Methodist Church
March 9, 2025
9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car
with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
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
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin,
and restored to the favour of God;
by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin,
and restored to the image of God.”
-John Wesley, On Working Out Our Own Salvation, 1785March 9, 2025
1st Sunday in Lent
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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.
OPENING PRAYER: (Congregation reads the bold)
God, you are our refuge.
You are the shore in sight,
you are hands that reach out,
you are the ground on which to rest.
God, you are our strength.
You are the life we long for,
you are the refusal to give up,
you are the keys of home we carry with us.
God, you are our help in time of trouble.
We call on you from the ruins and the rubble,
We call on you from the wildness and the deep,
ALL: We call on you to meet us in this place! Amen.
Found in Cláudio Carvalhaes, Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at
the Ends of the World (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020), 40.
*OPENING SONG #177 “He Is Lord” (Please sing two times)
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SCRIPTURE READING Romans 10:8b-13 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.
PRAISE TEAM
SCRIPTURE READING Luke 4:1-13 Pastor Julia Piper
MESSAGE: “Rescue Me!”
