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. We thank you and may
God bless each of you.
*CLOSING SONG # 377 *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “It Is Well With My Soul”
“May the Road Rise to Meet You”
By Lori True
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Attendance and Financial Information March 16, 2025
Worship – 95 Online engaged and viewed – 452
Ash Wednesday – 23
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 23, 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 Christian who has stopped repenting
has stopped growing.”
Leonard RavenhillMarch 23, 2025
3rd 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 (Luke 13)
Gracious and eternal God,
you call us into a new way of being,
and give us so many second chances in life.
May your love wash over us,
as we turn toward you
from our sinful ways.
Mold us as your people
in new and powerful ways,
that we may be true disciples
of your Son, Jesus Christ,
in whose name we pray. Amen.
Prayer retrieved from ministrymatters.com
*OPENING SONG “This Is Amazing Grace” Phil Wickham.
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SCRIPTURE READING Isaiah 55: 1-9 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.
SCRIPTURE READING Luke 13:1-9 Pastor Julia Piper
MESSAGE: “The Call to Bear Fruit: Repentance and Renewal”
