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, as you enter. We thank you and may God bless each of you.
*HYMN # 304 \u201cEaster People Raise Your Voices\u201d (words on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attendance and Financial Information \u2013 April 9, 2023<\/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
April 16, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time. Martin Luther<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Second Sunday of Easter<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/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
Good and gracious God, As we greet the signs in nature around us-of Spring once again regaling us in bloom; In the songs of returning birds and fields soon to be planted, we give you praise for an even greater sign of new life: the resurrection of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, that we especially celebrate at this time.
Resurrection is our guarantee that justice will triumph over treason,
Light will overcome darkness, and love will conquer death.
As we celebrate, we also dare to ask for your grace that we may live the promise given to us, by imitating the life of Jesus in reaching out to the poor, the marginalized, the least among us as we strive to be a neighbor to all those we meet.
We praise you in this Easter season. Change our lives, change our hearts to be messengers of Easter joy and hope.
We make this our prayer through Jesus Christ, our risen Lord forever. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING: Tom Hampton
Acts 2: 14A, 22-32
L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
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.
*HYMN
1 \/CCLI#1492484
2 \/ Adapted from \u201cAn Easter Prayer\u201d written by Fr. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, offered at the fourth annual White House Easter Prayer Breakfast on April 8, 2013
3 \/ (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
L.
P.
MESSAGE:
John 20: 19-31
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
“Resurrection Life”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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