June 15, 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.

June 15, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service

Gathering

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Rev. David Petty

Crossing the Threshold

Call to Worship
Nathan Nors

One: Our relationships with our fathers are complicated.

Many: For some of us, our father's love is like God's love -- too deep, too long, too wide, too strong to measure.

One: Some of our dads are here; some were never here.

Many: For some of us, God's love fills in the empty spaces our fathers left behind.
One: All of us are shaped by the relationship or lack of relationship with our fathers.
All: On this day when we remember what it means to have a father or be a father, we recognize the importance of fathers in our communities. We pledge as a congregation to love and nurture the fathers and father-figures among us so that they will manifest the love of God in all that they do.

*Opening Hymn
Holy, Holy, Holy
UMH #64
 
1. Holy, holy, holy!
Lord God Almighty!
Early in the morning
our song shall rise to thee.
 
Holy, holy, holy!
Merciful and mighty,
God in three persons,
blessed Trinity!
 
2. Holy, holy, holy!
All the saints adore thee,
casting down their
golden crowns
around the glassy sea;
 
cherubim and seraphim
falling down before thee,
which wert, and art, and
evermore shalt be.
 
3. Holy, holy, holy!
Though the darkness
hide thee,
though the eye
of sinful man
thy glory may not see,
 
only thou art holy;
there is none beside thee,
perfect in power, in
love and purity.
 
4. Holy, holy, holy!
Lord God Almighty!
All thy works shall
praise thy name,
in earth and sky and sea.
 
Holy, holy, holy!
Merciful and mighty,
God in three persons,
blessed Trinity.
 
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box

Prayer Song
Sanctuary
TFWS #2164
 
Lord, prepare me
to be a sanctuary,
pure and holy,
tried and true.
 
With thanksgiving,
I’ll be a living
sanctuary for You.

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

Prayer Song
Sanctuary
TFWS #2164
 
Lord, prepare me
to be a sanctuary,
pure and holy,
tried and true.
 
With thanksgiving,
I’ll be a living
sanctuary for You.

Scripture Reading
Psalm 8 & Psalm 68:4-10
Nathan Nors

O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens.
Out of the mouths of babes and infants you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger.
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established;
what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?
Yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet,
all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the field,
the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
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Sing to God; sing praises to his name;
lift up a song to him who rides upon the clouds[a]—
his name is the Lord—
be exultant before him.
Father of orphans and protector of widows
is God in his holy habitation.
God gives the desolate a home to live in;
he leads out the prisoners to prosperity,
but the rebellious live in a parched land.
O God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the wilderness, Selah
the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain
at the presence of God, the God of Sinai,
at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Rain in abundance, O God, you showered abroad;
you restored your heritage when it languished;
your flock found a dwelling in it;
in your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy.
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
In the Name of the Father…
Rev. David Petty

Giving Back

Invitation to Offering
Nathan Nors

Offertory


Prayer of Thanksgiving
Rev. David Petty

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!

For the Beauty of the Earth
v. 1, 4, 5, 6  UMH #92
 
1. For the beauty of the earth,
for the glory of the skies,
for the love
which from our birth
over and around us lies;
 
Refrain
Lord of all,
to thee we raise
this our hymn
of grateful praise.
 
4. For the joy of human love,
brother, sister,
parent, child,
friends on earth and
friends above,
for all gentle thoughts
and mild;
 
Refrain
Lord of all,
to thee we raise
this our hymn
of grateful praise.
 
5. For thy church,
that evermore
lifteth holy hands above
offering up on
every shore
her pure sacrifice of love;
 
Refrain
Lord of all,
to thee we raise
this our hymn
of grateful praise.
 
6. For thyself,
best Gift Divine,
to the world so freely given,
for that great, great
love of thine,
peace on earth,
and joy in heaven:
 
Refrain
Lord of all,
to thee we raise
this our hymn
of grateful praise.
 
*Benediction
Rev. David Petty

Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts