RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY
OFFERING: Feel free to place your gifts, offerings, and tithes in the
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attendance and Financial Information \u2013 April 2, 2023
Worship \u2013 134 Online engaged and viewed – ————————————————————————————–
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
PO Box 185 369 Allport Cutoff Allport, PA 16821
Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860 Pastor\u2019s church office hours : Mon., Tues, & Wed. 9 – 12 am
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
April 9, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
container in the aisle behind the last pew, as you enter. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
*HYMN # 310 \u201cHe Lives\u201d (words on screen)
We are the Easter people and Hallelujah is our song.
~ Pope John Paul II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EASTER DAY<\/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.
CALL TO WORSHIP: 2
Easter Reflection: “What Easter Means to Me” Bernie Bush CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children:
“Jesus Love Us”
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.
(Matthew 6:9-13)
GREETING AND SHARING GOD’S PEACE
Sharing Joy by greeting each other from where you are seated.
SCRIPTURE READING Reverend Julia Piper
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.\u201d
1 John 4:9
Special Opening: \u201cArise My Love\u201d by NewSong
Leader: Christ the Lord is Risen People: He has Risen Indeed!
Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
*HYMN<\/p>\n\n\n\n
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
L. The Word of God for the people of God
P. Thanks be to God
SCRIPTURE READING: Tom Hampton
Colossians 3: 1-4
1 \/CCLI#1492484
2 \/ General Board of Discipleship Adapted from Psalm 118:1, 19-29 in the New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition and the Common English Bible.
3 \/ (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
CCVI#5041408
MESSAGE:
John 20: 1-18
“Why We Celebrate Easter”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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