August 3, 2025

August Mission - B-COS We Care - Beyond the Classroom
(Formerly The Assistance League)
B-COS We Care about our students……..
As of May 2025, Beyond the Classroom has provided clothing to over 105,000 students. During the 2024–2025 school year alone, the program assisted students from 70 schools across El Paso County, offering clothing, hygiene items, and $75 Famous Footwear gift cards.
A total of 1,700 students received these items. In addition, 470 students from eastern El Paso County and additional students in our area received $75 Famous Footwear gift cards. Our four major events, held over nine weeks, took place at the Family Success Center, hosted by Pikes Peak United Way. While families selected clothing and hygiene items during the events, many also accessed additional services offered at the Family Success Center.
This program works closely with school counselors and liaisons in high-need schools, identified using federal free and reduced lunch data. Designated schools receive student allotments and are responsible for scheduling families to attend events. Beyond the Classroom is grateful for its partnership with Pikes Peak United Way and the Family Success Center, which provide valuable wraparound services for families in need. For the second consecutive year, Widefield High School also supported the program by holding a coat and blanket drive to help keep students warm.
Recent Program Impact
During the 2024–2025 school year, the program distributed 1,700 Famous Footwear gift cards, over 6,000 pieces of clothing, and 6,800 hygiene items to students in need. Beyond the Classroom also reached an additional 16 schools in the Pikes Peak region, distributing 470 more gift cards—all within an annual budget of $225,000.

August 3, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service

Gathering

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Dominick Nors

Crossing the Threshold

Call to Worship
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Leader: We gather to worship, bringing our prayers, our worries, and our whole selves.
People: We are here with hearts of worship and hands of prayer.
Leader: The Lord welcomes us - all of us - and fills us with peace.
People: Even when we are overwhelmed or stressed, the Lord works for our good.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We shall rejoice and be glad in it!

*Opening Hymn
What a Friend We Have in Jesus
UMH #526
 
1. What a friend
we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
everything to God in prayer!
 
O what peace
we often forfeit,
O what needless
pain we bear,
all because we do not carry
everything to God in prayer.
 
2. Have we trials
and temptations?
Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never
be discouraged;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
 
Can we find
a friend so faithful
who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows
our every weakness;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
 
3. Are we weak
and heavy laden,
cumbered with a load of care?
Precious Savior,
still our refuge;
take it to the Lord in prayer.
 
Do thy friends despise,
forsake thee?
Take it to the Lord in prayer!
In his arms he’ll
take and shield thee;
thou wilt find a solace there.
 
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box
Dominick Nors

Prayer
 
Prayer Song
Sweet Hour of Prayer
v. 1 UMH #496
 
1. Sweet hour of prayer!
sweet hour of prayer!
that calls me from
a world of care,
 
and bids me at
my Father’s throne
make all my wants
and wishes known.
 
In seasons of
distress and grief,
my soul has often
found relief,
 
and oft escaped
the tempter’s snare
by thy return,
sweet hour of prayer!
 
Pastoral Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
Dominick Nors
 
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
Sweet Hour of Prayer
v. 1 UMH #496
 
1. Sweet hour of prayer!
sweet hour of prayer!
that calls me from
a world of care,
 
and bids me at
my Father’s throne
make all my wants
and wishes known.
 
In seasons of
distress and grief,
my soul has often
found relief,
 
and oft escaped
the tempter’s snare
by thy return,
sweet hour of prayer!

Giving Back

Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Offertory


Prayer of Thanksgiving
Dominick Nors

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!

Scripture Reading
Philippians 4:6-7
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

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
Staying Prayerful
Dominick Nors

Communion
CLM Twinkle Gordon
 
Leader: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Leader: Lift up your hearts.

People: We lift them up to the Lord.

Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth. You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life. When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast. You delivered us from captivity, made covenant to be our sovereign God, brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey, and set before us the way of life. And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
 
People: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Leader: Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. By the baptism of his suffering, death, and resurrection you gave birth to your Church, delivered us from slavery to sin and death, and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit.

By your great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of your Son from the dead and to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.
Once we were no people, but now we are your people, declaring your wonderful deeds in Christ, who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. When the Lord Jesus ascended, he promised to be with us always, in the power of your Word and Holy Spirit.
On the night in which he gave himself up for us, he took bread, gave thanks to you, broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me."

When the supper was over he took the cup, gave thanks to you, gave it to his disciples, and said: "Drink from this, all of you; this is my blood of the new covenant, poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."

On the day you raised him from the dead he was recognized by his disciples in the breaking of the bread, and in the power of your Holy Spirit your Church has continued in the breaking of the bread and the sharing of the cup.

And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us,
as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
 
People: Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Leader: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here, and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ, that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes and we feast at his heavenly banquet. Through your Son Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit in your holy Church, all honor and glory is yours, almighty God, now and for ever.
 
All: Amen.
 
*Closing Hymn
Trust and Obey
UMH #467
WORDS: John H. Sammis, 1887 (1 Jn. 1:7)
 
1. When we walk
with the Lord
in the light of His word,
what a glory He
sheds on our way!
 
While we do His good will,
He abides with us still,
and to all who will
trust and obey.
 
Refrain
Trust and obey,
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
 
2. Not a burden we bear,
not a sorrow we share,
but our toil He doth
richly repay;
 
not a grief or a loss,
not a frown or a cross,
but is blest if we
trust and obey.
 
Refrain
Trust and obey,
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
 
3. But we never can prove
the delights of his love
until all on the
altar we lay;
 
for the favor he shows,
for the joy he bestows,
are for them who will
trust and obey.
 
Refrain
Trust and obey,
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
 
4. Then in fellowship sweet
we will sit at His feet,
or we’ll walk by His side
in the way;
 
what He says we will do,
where He sends we will go;
never fear, only
trust and obey.
 
Refrain
Trust and obey,
for there’s no other way
to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
 
*Benediction
Dominick Nors

Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts