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 # 462 *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “ ‘Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus”
“May the Road Rise to Meet You”
By Lori True
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Attendance and Financial Information March 9, 2025
Worship – 87 Online engaged and viewed – 390
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 given in memory of
Connie O’Dell
by Jane and Pauline
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
March 16, 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!
The best way out is always through.
–Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poetMarch 16, 2025
2nd 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.
CALL TO WORSHIP:
L: We are on a journey of faith. Jesus is our leader and our guide.
P: We place our trust in him.
L: As the daylight hours grow longer, our journey takes on an urgency.
P: We must prepare our hearts for Jerusalem
L: Do not fear! God goes before us, into Jerusalem, into the world.
P: Amen!
Prayer of Confession (in unison)
There is a certain winter in our spirits today, O Lord. We feel that the journey
on which we have embarked will demand too much of us. There are so
many other things in our lives which claim our spirits, our energy, our hopes
and fears. It is easy to be like Jerusalem, turning our backs on those whom
you send. The world shouts its solutions to us and then deserts us when we
are in need. Forgive us for the many times in which we have strayed from
your pathway of life; when we have chosen not to hear the cries of those in
need; when we have belittled the gifts and skills you have given us in order
to avoid serving others. Heal us, O Lord. Place us back on your path to
Jerusalem, to live, for we ask this in Jesus’ name. AMEN.
Call to Worship and Prayer retrieved from ministrymatters.com
*OPENING SONG #521 “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me”
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SCRIPTURE READING Philippians 3:17-4:1 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”
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 13:31-35 Pastor Julia Piper
MESSAGE: “Perseverance”
