RESPONSE TO THE WORD<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY<\/p>\n\n\n\n
OFFERING: Feel free to place your gifts, offerings, and tithes in the<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n container in the aisle behind the last pew, as you enter. We thank<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n you and may God bless each of you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n *CLOSING SONG # 357 *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING<\/p>\n\n\n\n CLOSING CHORUS “Just As I Am, Without One Plea”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “May the Road Rise to Meet You”<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Lori True<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n ————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attendance and Financial Information March 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worship – 94 Sunday School \u2013 14 Online engaged and viewed – 435<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Gethsemane United Methodist Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 9, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9:00 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also available by<\/p>\n\n\n\n Streaming Facebook, or join us in your car<\/p>\n\n\n\n with the radio tuned to 94.1 FM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gethsemane United Methodist Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n PO Box 185<\/p>\n\n\n\n 369 Allport Cutoff<\/p>\n\n\n\n Allport, PA 16821<\/p>\n\n\n\n Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pastor\u2019s church office hours: Mon., Tues, & Wed. Parsonage Telephone: 814-345-6931<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pastor Julia Cell: 814-883-8602<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daycare telephone: 814-345-3809<\/p>\n\n\n\n Church Email address: gumc.office@gmail.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n Church Website: www.gethsemanechurch.org<\/p>\n\n\n\n WiFi Password: Trustinchrist<\/p>\n\n\n\n 9 – 12 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ,<\/p>\n\n\n\n as we gather for<\/p>\n\n\n\n Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBy justification we are saved from the guilt of sin,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n and restored to the favour of God;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n and restored to the image of God.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n -John Wesley, On Working Out Our Own Salvation, 1785March 9, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1st Sunday in Lent<\/p>\n\n\n\n ————————————————————————–<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one<\/p>\n\n\n\n and only Son into the world that we might live through him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 John 4:9<\/p>\n\n\n\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n\n\n\n PREPARATION AND PRAISE<\/p>\n\n\n\n GREETING and ANNOUNCEMENTS<\/p>\n\n\n\n GATHERING PRAISE SONG<\/p>\n\n\n\n PRELUDE<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are excited that you are worshiping at Gethsemane today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n OPENING PRAYER: (Congregation reads the bold)<\/p>\n\n\n\n God, you are our refuge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You are the shore in sight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n you are hands that reach out,<\/p>\n\n\n\n you are the ground on which to rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God, you are our strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You are the life we long for,<\/p>\n\n\n\n you are the refusal to give up,<\/p>\n\n\n\n you are the keys of home we carry with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n God, you are our help in time of trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We call on you from the ruins and the rubble,<\/p>\n\n\n\n We call on you from the wildness and the deep,<\/p>\n\n\n\n ALL: We call on you to meet us in this place! Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Found in Cl\u00e1udio Carvalhaes, Liturgies from Below: Praying with People at<\/p>\n\n\n\n the Ends of the World (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2020), 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n *OPENING SONG #177 “He Is Lord” (Please sing two times)<\/p>\n\n\n\n __________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1 \/CCLI#1492484<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 \/CCLI#15041408 (United Methodist Book of Worship :<\/p>\n\n\n\n SCRIPTURE READING Romans 10:8b-13 Wayne Bambarger<\/p>\n\n\n\n L. The word of God for the people of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P. Thanks be to God<\/p>\n\n\n\n CHILDREN\u2019S MESSAGE \u201cJesus Loves Me\u201d (on screen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jesus loves me! This I know, for the Bible tells me so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Little ones to Him belong; they are weak, but He is strong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Bible tells me so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SONG OF PRAYER: #2193 \u201cLord, Listen to Your Children Praying\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n (on screen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n PRAYER OF INTERCESSION (In unison after prayer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,<\/p>\n\n\n\n as we forgive those who trespass against us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory forever. Amen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (Matthew 6:9-13)<\/p>\n\n\n\n GREETING AND SHARING GOD’S PEACE<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharing Joy by greeting each other from where you are seated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PRAISE TEAM<\/p>\n\n\n\n SCRIPTURE READING Luke 4:1-13 Pastor Julia Piper<\/p>\n\n\n\n MESSAGE: “Rescue Me!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. 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