HOLY COMMUNION:
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 #238 ” Angels We Have Heard On High\u201d
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS: #251 \u201cGo Tell It On the Mountain\u201d
Chorus, Verse 3, Chorus
Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere;
go, tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born.
Down in a lowly manger the humble Christ was born,
and God sent us salvation that blessed Christmas morn.
Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere; go, tell it on the<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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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
When the parents brought in the child Jesus
to do for him what the custom of the Law required,
Simeon took him in his arms and praised God
Luke 2: 27,28
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
December 31, 2023
9:00 am
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Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
“This is Christmas; not the tinsel,
not the giving and receiving,
not even the carols,
but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift,
the Christ.
Frank McKibbe
1 st Sunday after Christmas Day<\/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
1 John 4:9<\/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
L. We have welcomed the Christ child and declared the glory of God\u2019s
salvation that comes to live among us. And yet, still, we wait.
P. We watch and work for God\u2019s kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven.
L. We prepare to welcome a new year, thankful for how God has brought us
through the past year and anxious to discover what the new year might
bring.
P. We watch and work for God\u2019s kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven.
L. We join generations of Simeons and Annas who learned and taught us
how to listen, notice, and discern divine love at work in the world.
P. We watch and work for God\u2019s kin-dom on earth as it is in heaven.
L. Come, let us worship God, whose love endures from generation to
generation, guiding us from one year to the next.
P. Come, let us worship as we live in anticipation of God\u2019s kin-dom on
earth as it is heaven. Amen.
Written by Dr. Lisa Hancock, Discipleship Ministries, June 2023.
1 \/CCLI#1492484
2 \/CCLI#15041408 (United Methodist Book of Worship 1965, ALT.)
*HYMN #249 “There\u2019s a Song in the Air”
SCRIPTURE READING Judy Larson
Galatians 4:4-7
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN’S MESSAGE “Jesus Loves Me”
JOYS AND CONCERNS \u201cI Cast All My Cares Upon You\u201d
I cast all my cares upon you.
I lay all of my burdens down at Your feet.
And anytime that I don’t know what to do,
I will cast all my cares upon you
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 Pastor Julia Piper
Luke 2:22-40
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
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