RESPONSE TO THE WORLD
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 # 539 \u201c O Spirit of the Living God \u201d (words on screen)
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attendance and Financial Information \u2013 April 16, 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 23, 2023 9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“Many of us have at times walked the Emmaus road, wondering where God is\u2026
when all along He walks beside us.”
–Randy Alcorn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 rd 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.
CALLTOWORSHIP:2 (Psalm 116)
Leader: Come! Lift your voices to the Lord who always hears us.
People: Listen, Lord. Hear our voices sing your praises. Leader: Call on the Lord who bends low to hear us.
People: Listen, Lord. We lift our voices to you in praise.
People: Listen, Lord. We call on your wonderful name. For you saved us, you raised us and turned our lives around. Let your name be praised in this sacred space. Amen.
SCRIPTURE READING: Tom Hampton
Acts 2: 14A, 36-41
L. The word of God for the people of God. P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE Let us welcome the children: “Jesus Loves 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
*HYMN
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2 \/Adapted from: Call to Worship. Kwasi I. Kena, in The Africana Worship Book Year A (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 2006), 61.
3 \/ (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
Luke 24:13-35
The Word of God for the people of God
Thanks be to God
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