Gethsemane United
Methodist Church
PO Box 185
369 Allport Cutoff
Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860
Church Office Hours: Mon-Fri. 9 am – 12 pm
Pastor’s office hours: Mon., Tues, & Wed. 9 am- 12 pm
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
If you would like to sponsor the bulletin in honor/memory of someone or some event, the cost is $20. Please call church office 814-345-6860 with the information for the bulletin.
If you would like to purchase flowers for the altar for Sunday morning worship, there is a sign-up sheet on bulletin board by sanctuary entrance. Then please call church office 814-345-6860 and give the information for the bulletin.
“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” – Martin Luther
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
April 5, 2026
9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
GETHSEMANE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
April 5, 2026
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
OPENING PRAYER: (in unison)
Risen Christ,
We come this morning with hearts full of expectation—
and yet, if we are honest, also full of questions, grief, and things we do not understand. Like Mary at the tomb,
we have known loss. We have stood in places that feel empty.
We have named what is missing and wondered where You are.
And so today, O God, we ask not only to celebrate resurrection—
but to see it.
Open our eyes where we have assumed the worst.
Soften our hearts where disappointment has taken root.
Quiet our fears that keep us from recognizing You.
If You are standing near us in ways we do not yet understand,
call our name, Lord Jesus. Speak to us in a voice we can hear.
Where we see absence, reveal Your presence.
Where we see endings, reveal Your new beginnings.
Where we see loss, reveal Your life.
Surprise us this morning, O God—
not only with the story we know,
but with the living Christ we may not yet see.
We pray this in the name of the risen One,
who meets us in gardens, in grief, and in grace.
In Jesus’ name we pray,
Amen.
*OPENING HYMN: “Christ the Lord Is Risen Today” #302
EPISTLE LESSON: Acts 10:34–43 Marie Pentz
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE: “Jesus Loves Me”
SONG OF PRAYER: “Lord Listen to Your Children Praying” # 2193
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
GOSPEL LESSON: John 20:118
MESSAGE: “What Are We Not Seeing?”
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 HYMN: “He Lives” #310
SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
*BENEDICTION SONG: “ Lift High the Cross” #159
