RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
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.
Offering Response: #221 \u201cIn the Bleak Midwinter\u201d (Verse 4)
What can I give him?
If I were a shepherd,I would give a lamb.
If I were a wise man,
I would do my part;
Yet what I can I give him:
Give him my heart
*HYMN #238 ” Angels We Have Heard on High” *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attendance and Financial Information \u2013 December 18, 2022
Worship \u2013 90 Online engaged and viewed -264 Sunday School – 10<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff
Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860
Pastor\u2019schurchofficehours: Mon.,Tues,&Wed. 9-12am 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
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
December 25, 2022 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
Poor as I am,
“The Work of Christmas”
When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flock, the work of Christmas begins:
To find the lost, to heal the broken, to feed the hungry, to release the prisoner, to rebuild the nations, to bring peace among others, to make music in the heart.
Howard Thurman<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In our friendship, we are a people of Spirit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PREPARATION AND PRAISE
GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS GATHERING PRAISE SONG
PRELUDE
We are excited that you are worshiping with Gethsemane today.
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children:
Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head The stars in the bright sky
Looked down where He lay The little Lord Jesus Asleep on the hay
*HYMN # 230 ” O Little Town of Bethlehem”
JOYS AND CONCERNS
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.
OPENING PRAYER:
Holy God, we thank you for the precious gift of Christmas- Jesus Christ our Lord, Savior and Friend. As we worship you today, may your light shine brightly in each of our hearts as we proclaim, hear, and live your Word. We ask this in Jesus\u2019 name. Amen.
(Matthew 6:9-13)
Reverend Julia Piper L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SERMON “Living Christmas Everyday”
SHARING CHRISTMAS JOY
Sharing Christmas Joy by greeting each other
*HYMN<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“What Child Is This”
from where you are seated.
SCRIPTURE READING:
Hebrews 1:1 \u2013 2: 12
Liturgist: Missy Maines
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
SCRIPTURE READING
John 1: 1-14
1 \/CCLI#1492484
2 \/(United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
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