RESPONSE TO THE WORD
HOLY COMMUNION
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.
*CLOSING SONG \u201cWay Maker\u201d
*SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING
CLOSING CHORUS #383 ” This Is the Day of New Beginnings vs. 4\u201d
Christ is alive and goes before us, to show and share what love can
do. This is a day of new beginnings, our God is making all things<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attendance and Financial Information December 29, 2024
Worship \u201385 Online engaged and viewed – 423
Christmas Eve 7 pm \u2013 123 11 pm – 53
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. 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
9 – 12 am
Gethsemane United Methodist Church
January 5, 2025
9:00 am
Also available by
Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car
with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.
Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,
as we gather for
Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!
And I will give you a new heart
I will give you new and right desires
and put a new spirit within you.
I will take out your stony hearts of sin
and give you new hearts of love.
Ezekiel 36:26<\/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 at Gethsemane today.
RESPONSIVE READING
Come, let us begin this new year by gathering in the presence of the
Almighty God.
We come together in this sacred space, expecting God to work
among us.
Come, let us gather anticipating the life-changing work of the Holy
Spirit.
We come together with open hearts. God\u2019s renewed faith.
We are ready to celebrate
Come, let us gather with joy, anticipating what God will do among us.
We gather welcoming all people to experience God\u2019s unwavering
presence.
*OPENING SONG # 220 \u201cAngels from the Realms of Glory\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1 \/CCLI#1492484
2 \/CCLI#15041408 (United Methodist Book of Worship :
OLD TESTAMENT READING Genesis 1: 1-3 Missy Maines
L. The word of God for the people of God.
P. Thanks be to God
CHILDREN\u2019S MESSAGE \u201cJesus Loves Me\u201d (on screen)
Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong; they are weak, but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
The Bible tells me so.
SONG OF PRAYER: #2193 \u201cLord, Listen to Your Children Praying\u201d
(on screen)
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.
PRAISE TEAM
SCRIPTURE READING John 1: 1-18 Pastor Julia Piper
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