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.
“This Is A Day of New Beginnings” #383
*CLOSING SONG *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS “Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross” #301
verse 1
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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
April 6, 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!April 6, 2025
5th 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 (congregation reads the bold:
L: Break open our hearts this morning to hear your word, O God.
P: Let our fears be vanquished, our spirits restored!
L: Come and let us worship with great joy!
P: Let us drop the things of the past which weighed us down!
L: God is about to do something new in our lives!
P: Let God’s will become strong in our lives. AMEN.
Prayer retrieved from ministrymatters.com
OPENING SONG “Something Beautiful” #394 (sing two times)
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OLD TESTAMENT READING Isaiah 43:16-21 Pam Hampton
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.
NEW TESTAMENT READING John 12:1-8 Pastor Julia Piper
MESSAGE: “With God, Expect the Unexpected”
HOLY COMMUNION
