May 5, 2026

May’s Mission is Mission Medical Center.
The Christian Healing Network dba Mission Medical Center was established in 2004 by a group of church leaders who noticed a lack in available health services for people that were uninsured.

MMC operates with only 2 full time employees, 3 part time employees, and over 65 active and extremely loyal volunteers, 24 of which are healthcare providers who regularly see patients. Last year, we saw nearly 600 patients and provided $192,000 in free medical visits.

Our primary care clinic is our busiest clinic and is open Monday through Thursday from 9am to 4pm. We offer hour-long appointment times so our providers can spend time getting to know the patient, adequately treat their concerns, and offer spiritual care services as needed and/or requested. Through our primary care program, we offer free laboratory testing to our patients through our partnerships with Quest Diagnostics and LabCorp. We work with Colorado Springs Imaging to obtain x-rays and CTs when we need them for our patients. We have a small in-house lab and can run a few tests right in the office, including hemoglobin a1c, glucose, and UA testing.

MMC also has a fully operational dental clinic with 7 volunteer dentists, 4 dental assistants and a dental hygienist. We have dental x-ray machines, including a panoramic x-ray machine. We perform deep cleanings, fillings, extractions, and extensive oral hygiene education. Lastly, MMC has a Spiritual Care Center staffed with volunteer chaplains. We believe faith and medicine working together improves the lives of patients.

Resurrection Story: Healed
Fifth Week of Easter
?️ Gathering at the Gate ?️

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Dominick Nors
 
The Collective Story of Resurrection
Threshold Moment
 
Dominick Nors: Illness of mind, body, or spirit can sap us of our life passion and energy. Sometimes illness can change the course of our lives forever, asking us to adapt in ways we never imagined. And while illness is not visited upon anyone by God’s design, sometimes limitations open our eyes to other possibilities. We will look for a different perspective on how we deal with any life-altering situation.

Rise up in us and we will rise
From death into a newfound life:
From bondage freed, from harm released,
From illness healed, as one in peace.
When all is lost our hearts are warmed,
Our hope restored, our lives transformed.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
 
 
Dominick Nors: The disciples returned to the Sea of Galilee, a place where they had spent much time in ministry with Jesus, when he appeared to them again by the shore.

CLM Twinkle Gordon: When we struggle or face an uncertain future, we sometimes seek familiar places, geographies of the heart, places that offer us a sense of being well.
 
Dominick Nors: Simon Peter said to the disciples gathered with him: “I’m going fishing.” The disciples eagerly joined him in the boat, but they fished all night and caught nothing.

CLM Twinkle Gordon: Even when our lives have been altered and our paths have changed, setbacks can tempt us to try to go back to the way things were before.
 
Dominick Nors: Just after daybreak, Jesus stood on the beach, but the disciples did not recognize him. Jesus said, “Children, you have no fish, have you?” The disciples said, “No.”

CLM Twinkle Gordon: Regardless of how futile our old ways were, we try them again, finding false comfort in the familiar, yet not truly finding the healing we seek.
 
Dominick Nors: Jesus told the disciples to cast their net on the other side of the boat. They followed his direction and caught so many fish they were unable to haul in the net.

CLM Twinkle Gordon: We can become so overwhelmed with struggles that we forget to let go of our frustrations in order to seek new ways of being, new paths to peace.
 
Dominick Nors: Amid the flopping fish, the disciple whom Jesus loved recognized him, saying, “It is the Lord.” Peter put clothes on and jumped into the sea–eager to rush to Jesus.
CLM Twinkle Gordon: When we embrace new ways of being in the midst of life-changing circumstances, we often are filled with hope.

Dominick Nors: The other disciples, seeing that they were not far from land,
used the boat to drag the bulging nets ashore.
 
All: When faced with permanent obstacles, rather than repeat what once worked, we can shift our perspective to other ways of well-being.
 
Dominick Nors: This is a Word of Hope for the people who long for it.
All: Thanks be to the Living Word.
 
– based on John 21:1-8
 
Hymn
There is a Wildness in God’s Mercy
UMH #121
WORDS: Frederick W. Faber, 1854
 
1. There’s a wideness
in God’s mercy
like the wideness of the sea;
there’s a kindness
in God’s justice,
which is more than liberty.
 
2. There is welcome
for the sinner,
and more graces
for the good!
There is mercy
with the Savior;
there is healing in his blood.
 
3. For the love of
God is broader
than the measure
of our mind;
and the heart
of the Eternal
is most wonderfully kind.
 
4. If our love were
but more simple,
we should rest
upon God’s word;
and our lives
would be illumined
by the presence of our Lord.

Announcements/Passing the Peace
 
Mystery Box

?️ Proclaiming Healing ?️
 
Notes on Healing
Reading and Anthem/Song
 
Reader: Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak. When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he struck him on the hip socket, and Jacob’s hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him. Then he said, “Let me go, for the day is breaking.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go, unless you bless me.” So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” Then the man said, “You shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with humans and have prevailed.” Then Jacob asked him, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And there he blessed him. So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, yet my life is preserved.” The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip. Therefore to this day the Israelites do not eat the thigh muscle that is on the hip socket, because he struck Jacob on the hip socket at the thigh muscle.
                                                                                    – Genesis 32: 24-32
 
A Story of Healing: A Woman in the Crowd
Mark 5: 24-34
 
Reader: So he went with him. And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. Now there was a woman who had been suffering from a flow of blood for twelve years. She had endured much under many physicians and had spent all that she had, and she was no better but rather grew worse. She had heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, “If I but touch his cloak, I will be made well.” Immediately her flow of blood stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my cloak?” And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ” He looked all around to see who had done it. But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
 
Testimony to Healing
Healed
Dominick Nors
 
Communion
Dominick Nors
The following prayer that is based on the 2nd century Hippolytus prayer structure that is the ecumenical standard. However, please adapt it to suit your particular tradition. If you will be offering live-streamed, hybrid, or pre-recorded worship, be sure to include an invitation to those participating online to gather something to eat and drink if they wish to participate in communion. Of course, adapt this invitation according to the practices that your denomination or community specifies. Whatever you do, just make sure that you consider how those tuning in from home can join in this ritual.
 
This prayer uses “This is a Day of New Beginnings” hymn (verses reordered)
Dominick Nors: Christ invites to this table all who are ready for a resurrection in their own lives, to move beyond the limitations of the past, to move into the “new day” that God is doing in our midst, willing to let go of the pain that’s gone.
This is a day of new beginnings, 
time to remember and move on, 
time to believe what love is bringing, 
laying to rest the pain that’s gone... 
And so this is an open invitation to come
and receive the bread that will sustain us
as we embark on a journey towards our own resurrection story.
All are invited to receive the sweetness of the cup
as a sign of God’s promise of abundant possibilities.
All are invited to this meal, for all are forgiven their past regrets
and invited into God’s grace-filled future!


People: Praise to the Living God! 
Dominick Nors: The Lord be with you.
People: And also with you. 
Dominick Nors: Lift up your hearts in this new day.
People: We lift them up to God. 
Dominick Nors: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
People: It is right to give our thanks and praise. 
Dominick Nors: It is right, and a good and joyful thing, always and everywhere to give thanks to you, Creator and Renewer of all life. Time and again you seek us out,
breathing again the breath of life into the deflated places our lives.
And so, we come to your table again to praise you and taste yet again what your steadfast love can do...
 
In faith we’ll gather round the table 
to taste and share what love can do. 
This is a day of new beginnings; 
our God is making all things new... 
 
Dominick Nors: Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ. Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, and to announce that the time had come when you would save your people. He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners. All this spoke of resurrection of lives even before his own.
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.
When the Lord Jesus ascended, he promised to be with us always in the power of your Word and Holy Spirit.
 
For by the life and death of Jesus, 
God’s mighty Spirit, now as then, 
can make for us a world of difference, 
as faith and hope are born again... 
Dominick Nors: 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.”
And so, as we remember these words and acts of Jesus, we offer our own lives, leaving behind what we do not need, seeking new paths full of resurrected life in you. As followers of Christ, we proclaim and live out this holy mystery:
 
People: Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again. 
Then let us, with the Spirit’s daring, 
step from the past and leave behind 
our disappointment, guilt, and grieving, 
seeking new paths, and sure to find... 
Dominick Nors: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here and on these gifts of bread and wine. Make them be for us a resurrection story in Christ, so that we may be a resurrection story for the world as the Body of Christ, breaking ourselves open to God’s redeemed future.

By your Spirit make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world until Christ comes in final victory 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 forever!
Christ is alive, and goes before us 
to show and share what love can do. 
This is a day of new beginnings; 
our God is making all things new!

?️ Responding to Healing ?️
 
Prayers of the People
Dominick Nors
 
Silent Prayer
 
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

?️Opportunities to Live Resurrected ?️️

Offertory
CLM Twinkle Gordon
 
Offering
We Are God’s People
Johannes Brahms Arr. Howard Stevenson
Sanctuary Choir

Doxology
Praise God from Whom All Blessing 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!

?️ Unlocking Healing ?️

Hymn
God of Grace and God of Glory
UMH #577
WORDS: Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1930
By permission of Elinor Fosdick Downs
 
1. God of grace,
and God of glory,
on thy people
pour thy power;
 
crown thine ancient
church’s story;
bring her bud
to glorious flower.
 
Grant us wisdom,
grant us courage,
for the facing
of this hour, (of this hour)
for the facing of this hour.
 
2. Lo! the hosts
of evil round us
scorn thy Christ,
assail his ways!
 
Fear and doubts
too long have bound us;
free our hearts to
work and praise.
 
Grant us wisdom,
grant us courage,
for the living
of these days, (of these days)
for the living of these days.
 
3. Cure thy children’s
warring madness,
bend our pride
to thy control;
 
shame our wanton,
selfish gladness,
rich in things
and poor in soul.
 
Grant us wisdom,
grant us courage,
lest we miss thy
kingdom’s goal, (kingdom’s goal)
lest we miss thy
kingdom’s goal.
 
4. Save us from
weak resignation
to the evils we deplore;
 
let the search
for thy salvation
be our glory evermore.
 
Grant us wisdom,
grant us courage,
serving thee
whom we adore, (we adore)
serving thee whom we adore.
 
Choral Benediction
Rise up in us and we will rise
From death into a newfound life:
From bondage freed, from harm released,
From illness healed, as one in peace.
When all is lost our hearts are warmed,
Our hope restored, our lives transformed.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
 
Benediction
Dominick Nors

Whatever binds you, whatever locks you up,
whatever chronic pains or limitations keep you from living life to the fullest,
whatever keeps you from changing perspective and fishing on the other side of the boat
can be wiped clean with a healing salve…
 
… for we believe our stories can be rewritten each and every day.
We know it isn’t this easy or quick, but let this be a vision of your life resurrected.
And now, may you go into the world,
experiencing and bestowing healing in all the ways you discover you can,
for yourself, for others, for the world.
And may the God who created you to be whole,
the Christ who showed you the power of a change in perspective,
and the Spirit who is transforming your life even now,
be with you now and evermore.
Amen.
 
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts