June 1, 2025 The Church is the People: Gifted for Mission
June 1, 2025
Crossfire:faith+gaming is an online ministry (and now a series of in-person summer camps) meant to reach nerds, geeks, and gamers of all ages. Crossfire's online community gathers weekly in an online voice chat and throughout the week in text chats on a Discord* server. Crossfire also produces a podcast, YouTube channel, and live-streaming Twitch.tv* channel. The goal of Crossfire is to help reach generations of people who have felt left out of the church and this ministry often reaches people who have left the church due to church hurt or not feeling like they belong.
In 2023, Crossfire expanded its ministries to include an in-person Summer Day Camp. Now, in 2025, this camp will cover multiple sessions across the front range of Colorado and two cities in Montana. Crossfire Camp is not your typical camp. Crossfire is a whole new camp for a whole new generation of camper. At Crossfire Camp, the kids play games, explore their nerdy side, deepen their faith, and explore the place where faith and pop-culture combine.
As a new ministry reaching an unreached group of people, Crossfire relies mostly on the generous donations of organizations, churches, and individuals to make its ministries possible. Thank you for supporting this vital ministry and supporting the discipleship journeys of youth and young people in your region.
In 2023, Crossfire expanded its ministries to include an in-person Summer Day Camp. Now, in 2025, this camp will cover multiple sessions across the front range of Colorado and two cities in Montana. Crossfire Camp is not your typical camp. Crossfire is a whole new camp for a whole new generation of camper. At Crossfire Camp, the kids play games, explore their nerdy side, deepen their faith, and explore the place where faith and pop-culture combine.
As a new ministry reaching an unreached group of people, Crossfire relies mostly on the generous donations of organizations, churches, and individuals to make its ministries possible. Thank you for supporting this vital ministry and supporting the discipleship journeys of youth and young people in your region.
Gathering
June 1, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service
Gathering
Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Welcome
Rev. David Petty
Crossing the Threshold
Call to Worship
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Today’s call to worship is not about coming into the church —
It’s about realizing that we already are the church.
Not just this building. Not just this hour.
But the people, the gifts, the heart of God made visible in us.
So let us stand and be called into a time of worship.
Leader: We come, not as strangers, but as friends, family, community.
People: We have many different gifts and perspectives, but we are united in our purpose.
Leader: We come to remember that everyone matters.
People: No one is too small. No one is left out.
Leader: We come to worship, to serve, and to grow together.
People: We are the Church. We are the Body of Christ.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We shall rejoice and be glad in it!
*Opening Hymn
We Are the Church
UMH #558
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus,
all around the world!
Yes, we’re the
church together!
1. The church is
not a building,
the church is not a steeple,
the church is
not a resting place,
the church is a people.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
2. We’re many
kinds of people,
with many kinds of faces,
all colors and
all ages, too,
from all times and places.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
3. Sometimes the
church is marching,
sometimes it’s
bravely burning,
sometimes it’s riding,
sometimes hiding,
always it’s learning.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
4. And when the
people gather,
there’s singing
and there’s praying,
there’s laughing and
there’s crying sometimes,
all of it saying:
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
5. At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the Good News
through the world
to all who would hear it.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ
Mystery Box
Scripture Reading
John 17:20-26
CLM Twinkle Gordon
“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”
Gathering
Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Welcome
Rev. David Petty
Crossing the Threshold
Call to Worship
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Today’s call to worship is not about coming into the church —
It’s about realizing that we already are the church.
Not just this building. Not just this hour.
But the people, the gifts, the heart of God made visible in us.
So let us stand and be called into a time of worship.
Leader: We come, not as strangers, but as friends, family, community.
People: We have many different gifts and perspectives, but we are united in our purpose.
Leader: We come to remember that everyone matters.
People: No one is too small. No one is left out.
Leader: We come to worship, to serve, and to grow together.
People: We are the Church. We are the Body of Christ.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We shall rejoice and be glad in it!
*Opening Hymn
We Are the Church
UMH #558
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus,
all around the world!
Yes, we’re the
church together!
1. The church is
not a building,
the church is not a steeple,
the church is
not a resting place,
the church is a people.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
2. We’re many
kinds of people,
with many kinds of faces,
all colors and
all ages, too,
from all times and places.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
3. Sometimes the
church is marching,
sometimes it’s
bravely burning,
sometimes it’s riding,
sometimes hiding,
always it’s learning.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
4. And when the
people gather,
there’s singing
and there’s praying,
there’s laughing and
there’s crying sometimes,
all of it saying:
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
5. At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the Good News
through the world
to all who would hear it.
Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!
All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ
Mystery Box
Scripture Reading
John 17:20-26
CLM Twinkle Gordon
“I ask not only on behalf of these but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given them, so that they may be one, as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become completely one, so that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. Father, I desire that those also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
“Righteous Father, the world does not know you, but I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them and I in them.”
Prayer
Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
The Lord’s 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.
Lead us not
into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom,
and the Power
and the Glory forever.
Amen
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
The Lord’s 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.
Lead us not
into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom,
and the Power
and the Glory forever.
Amen
Giving Back
Giving Back
Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Offertory
Sanctuary Choir
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
Doxology
Praise God from Who All Blessings Flow
UMH #94
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures
here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source
of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ,
whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit,
Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon
Offertory
Sanctuary Choir
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Pastor Donnie Sturgill
Doxology
Praise God from Who All Blessings Flow
UMH #94
Praise God, from whom
all blessings flow;
Praise God, all creatures
here below: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Praise God, the source
of all our gifts!
Praise Jesus Christ,
whose power uplifts!
Praise the Spirit,
Holy Spirit!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia!
A Word of Inspiration
Scripture Reading
Acts 16:16-34
CLM Twinkle Gordon
One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men, these Jews, are disturbing our city and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us, being Romans, to adopt or observe.” The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. He brought them up into the house and set food before them, and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.
Prayer for Illumination
Leader: May the words of my mouth,
People: and the meditations of all of our hearts
All: be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our rock and our redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
Message
The Church is the People: Gifted for Mission
Rev. David Petty
Communion
Rev. David Petty
Acts 16:16-34
CLM Twinkle Gordon
One day as we were going to the place of prayer, we met a female slave who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners a great deal of money by fortune-telling. While she followed Paul and us, she would cry out, “These men are slaves of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” She kept doing this for many days. But Paul, very much annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.
But when her owners saw that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the authorities. When they had brought them before the magistrates, they said, “These men, these Jews, are disturbing our city and are advocating customs that are not lawful for us, being Romans, to adopt or observe.” The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates had them stripped of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods. After they had given them a severe flogging, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to keep them securely. Following these instructions, he put them in the innermost cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake so violent that the foundations of the prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened. When the jailer woke up and saw the prison doors wide open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, since he supposed that the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted in a loud voice, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here.” The jailer called for lights, and rushing in, he fell down trembling before Paul and Silas. Then he brought them outside and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” They spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. At the same hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds; then he and his entire family were baptized without delay. He brought them up into the house and set food before them, and he and his entire household rejoiced that he had become a believer in God.
Prayer for Illumination
Leader: May the words of my mouth,
People: and the meditations of all of our hearts
All: be acceptable in your sight, O Lord our rock and our redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
Message
The Church is the People: Gifted for Mission
Rev. David Petty
Communion
Rev. David Petty
Sending Forth
*Closing Hymn
Bind Us Together
TFWS #2226
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together
with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together, Lord,
bind us together in love.
There is only one God,
there is only one King;
There is only one body,
that is why we sing.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together
with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together, Lord,
bind us together in love.
*Benediction
Rev. David Petty
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Bind Us Together
TFWS #2226
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together
with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together, Lord,
bind us together in love.
There is only one God,
there is only one King;
There is only one body,
that is why we sing.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together
with cords
that cannot be broken.
Bind us together, Lord,
bind us together, Lord,
bind us together in love.
*Benediction
Rev. David Petty
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts
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