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 # 462 *SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING<\/p>\n\n\n\n CLOSING CHORUS \u201c \u2018Tis So Sweet To Trust in Jesus”<\/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 9, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Worship – 87 Online engaged and viewed – 390<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/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 The altar flowers are given in memory of<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Connie O\u2019Dell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n by Jane and Pauline<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gethsemane United Methodist Church<\/p>\n\n\n\n March 16, 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 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 The best way out is always through.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2013Robert Frost (1874-1963), American poetMarch 16, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2nd 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 CALL TO WORSHIP:<\/p>\n\n\n\n L: We are on a journey of faith. Jesus is our leader and our guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P: We place our trust in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n L: As the daylight hours grow longer, our journey takes on an urgency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P: We must prepare our hearts for Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n L: Do not fear! God goes before us, into Jerusalem, into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n P: Amen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Prayer of Confession (in unison)<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a certain winter in our spirits today, O Lord. We feel that the journey<\/p>\n\n\n\n on which we have embarked will demand too much of us. There are so<\/p>\n\n\n\n many other things in our lives which claim our spirits, our energy, our hopes<\/p>\n\n\n\n and fears. It is easy to be like Jerusalem, turning our backs on those whom<\/p>\n\n\n\n you send. The world shouts its solutions to us and then deserts us when we<\/p>\n\n\n\n are in need. Forgive us for the many times in which we have strayed from<\/p>\n\n\n\n your pathway of life; when we have chosen not to hear the cries of those in<\/p>\n\n\n\n need; when we have belittled the gifts and skills you have given us in order<\/p>\n\n\n\n to avoid serving others. Heal us, O Lord. Place us back on your path to<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jerusalem, to live, for we ask this in Jesus\u2019 name. AMEN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call to Worship and Prayer retrieved from ministrymatters.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n *OPENING SONG #521 “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me”<\/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 Philippians 3:17-4:1 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 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 13:31-35 Pastor Julia Piper<\/p>\n\n\n\n MESSAGE: “Perseverance\u201d<\/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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