November 16, 2025

Our November Mission is ROCKY MOUNTAIN KIDS.
With over 29 years of service to teens, we have four community based residential homes in Colorado Springs.
The children and teens ranging from ages 12-20 are supported by a caring staff in a safe environment where they can heal from the abuse and neglect in their past. They are given opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities, including school sports and enrichment programs. The teens are also provided with life skills training, educational support, and assistance for employment. These skills will help them succeed in life, whether their goal is to return home, or emancipate and live independently. We see these kids Trauma and help repair the wounds.
One of the homes even have an innovative apartment program, where a young man emancipating into self-sufficiency can use the upstairs apartment and "try out" his new independent status to prepare to transition out of our homes.
Typically, the length of stay for a teen in our program varies from 6 months to 2 years.
In December we have a hands on mission project of decorating Christmas stockings for the RMKids during Fellowship time. The exact Sunday to be announced.

November 16, 2025  9:30 am Worship Service

Gathering

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Rev. David Petty

Crossing the Threshold

Introit
Osse Shalom
"He Who Makes Peace"
Cynthia Roberson - Violin
Jubilee Bells

Call to Worship
Mike Pfahl
Leader: The seasons turn, and God’s mercy remains.

People: In every change, God’s faithfulness endures.

Leader: We gather to worship, to remember, and be grateful.

People: For all that has been and all that will be, we are grateful for a faith that endures.

Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made

People: We will rejoice and be glad in it!

*Worship Hymn
Be Still My Soul
UMH #534
WORDS: Katharine von Schlegel, 1752;
trans. by Jane Borthwick, 1855 (Ps. 46:10)
 
1. Be still, my soul:
the Lord is on your side.
Bear patiently
the cross of grief and pain;
 
leave to your God
to order and provide;
in every change
God faithful will remain.
 
Be still, my soul:
your best,
your heavenly friend
through thorny ways
leads to a joyful end.
 
2. Be still, my soul:
your God will undertake
to guide the future,
as in ages past.
 
Your hope,
your confidence
let nothing shake;
all now mysterious
shall be bright at last.
 
Be still, my soul:
the waves and
winds still know
the Christ who ruled
them while he dwelt below.
 
3. Be still, my soul:
the hour is hastening on
when we shall be
forever with the Lord,
 
when disappointment,
grief, and fear are gone,
sorrow forgot,
love’s purest joys restored.
 
Be still, my soul:
when change and
tears are past,
all safe and blessed
we shall meet at last.

*Opening Hymn
How Firm Our Foundation
UMH #529
 
1. How firm a foundation,
ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith
in his excellent word!
 
What more can he say
than to you he hath said,
to you who for refuge
to Jesus have fled?
 
2. “Fear not, I am with thee,
O be not dismayed,
for I am thy God
and will still give thee aid;
 
I’ll strengthen
and help thee,
and cause thee to stand
upheld by my righteous,
omnipotent hand.
 
3. “When through
the deep waters
I call thee to go,
the rivers of woe
shall not
thee overflow;
 
for I will be with thee,
thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee
thy deepest distress.
 
4. “When through
fiery trials
thy pathways shall lie,
my grace,
all-sufficient,
shall be thy supply;
 
the flame shall
not hurt thee;
I only design
thy dross to consume,
and thy gold to refine.
 
5. “The soul that on Jesus
still leans for repose,
I will not, I will not
desert to its foes;
 
that soul, though all hell
should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no, never,
no, never forsake.”

*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box

Scripture Reading
Luke 21:5-19
Mike Pfahl

 When some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts dedicated to God, he said, “As for these things that you see, the days will come when not one stone will be left upon another; all will be thrown down.”
They asked him, “Teacher, when will this be, and what will be the sign that this is about to take place?” And he said, “Beware that you are not led astray, for many will come in my name and say, ‘I am he!’ and, ‘The time is near!’ Do not go after them.
 
“When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified, for these things must take place first, but the end will not follow immediately.” Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom; there will be great earthquakes and in various places famines and plagues, and there will be dreadful portents and great signs from heaven.
“But before all this occurs, they will arrest you and persecute you; they will hand you over to synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors because of my name. This will give you an opportunity to testify. So make up your minds not to prepare your defense in advance, for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict. You will be betrayed even by parents and siblings, by relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your souls.

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
Faith That Endures
Rev. David Petty

Prayer
 
Pastoral Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
Rev. David Petty
 
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

Invitation to Offering
Mike Pfahl

Offertory
Sanctuary Choir

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!

*Closing Hymn
A Might Fortress Is Our God
UMH #110
 
1. A mighty fortress
is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our helper he amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing.
 
For still our ancient foe
doth seek to work us woe;
his craft and
power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.
 
2. Did we in our own
strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right man
on our side,
the man of God’s
own choosing.
 
Dost ask who
that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth, his name,
from age to age the same,
and he must
win the battle.
 
3. And though this world,
with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear,
for God hath willed
his truth to triumph
through us.
 
The Prince of
Darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo, his doom is sure;
one little word
shall fell him.
 
4. That word above
all earthly powers,
no thanks to them, abideth;
the Spirit and
the gifts are ours,
thru him who
with us sideth.
 
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill;
God’s truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever.
all things new.
 
*Benediction
Rev. David Petty

Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts