Weekly bulletin

Gethsemane United

    Methodist Church

PO Box 185  

369 Allport Cutoff  

Allport, PA 16821

Church Office Telephone: 814-345-6860

Church Office Hours: Mon-Fri. 9 am – 12 pm

Pastor’s office hours:   Mon., Tues, & Wed.   9 am- 12 pm  

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

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Sainthood is lived out in the ordinary details of everyday life as we live our lives as followers of Christ—showing up for a neighbor, offering mercy when retaliation is easier, and standing up for justice.  Amen

November 1, 2026

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Gethsemane United Methodist Church

Welcome, brothers and sisters in Christ, 

as we gather for 

Praise, Prayer, Word and Worship!

GETHSEMANE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

​​​November 1, 2026

GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PREPARATION AND PRAISE

PRELUDE

OPENING PRAYER

Gracious God, we thank you for those who have gone before us and for the love and memories they leave behind. Comfort those who grieve, strengthen our faith, and remind us of the promise of resurrection and eternal life. May our worship honor you today. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

*OPENING HYMN:  ​“ For All the Saints”  #711

EPISTLE LESSON: Hebrews 12: 1- 2

CHILDREN’S MESSAGE:​ “Jesus Loves Me”

SONG OF PRAYER:   “Lord Listen to Your Children Praying” # 2193

TIME OF PRAYER – 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

GOSPEL LESSON: ​John 11: 32- 44

MESSAGE:   ​“Will the Circle Be Unbroken?”

REMEMBERING THE SAINTS LITURGY

Pastor: Today we remember those who have gone before us in faith.

People: We thank God for the lives they lived and the love they shared.

Pastor: We remember parents and grandparents, children and siblings, friends and neighbors.

People: Their lives have touched ours, and their love remains with us.

Pastor: We remember those whose absence still brings tears to our eyes.

People: God of comfort, hold us in our grief.

Pastor: We celebrate the promise that neither death nor life can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.

People: Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Pastor: We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.

People: May we live faithfully, love deeply, and carry the light of Christ into the world.

All: Thanks be to God for the communion of saints, now and forever.  Amen.

REMEMBERING THE SAINTS

HOLY COMMUNION

OFFERING AND TRADITIONAL DOXOLOGY

*CLOSING HYMN:  ​“Because He Lives” #357

SENDING FORTH WITH BLESSING

*BENEDICTION SONG: ​“Shalom” #666

*Please stand if comfortable. Thank you.