January 19, 2025

St. Paul’s mission for January is the Marian House Kitchen. Since 1985, the Marian House Kitchen, a non-profit agency, has been serving people who are hungry in downtown Colorado Springs. Their kitchen offers hot, nutritious meals 365 days a year to anyone who comes to their doors, free of charge. Meals are specifically nutritionally balanced, because the agency recognizes that for many of the people they serve, this is their only meal of the day.
The Kitchen’s guests include struggling families, seniors on a fixed income, the working poor, veterans, people with disabilities, unsupported teens, and those who are homeless. Anyone who is hungry is welcome to share a meal and receive friendly attention from volunteers.
The Marian House Marketplace food pantry opened Feb.1, 2021, to address food instability gaps due to other providers closing. Clients can shop for essentials to provide a balanced nutritious meal plan for the month.
Marian House believes: “Food can be so much more than calories. Food can be a portal for work. Food can be family stability. Food can be health, and as it always has been at Marian House, it can be love.”
You can make monetary donations at stpaulscs.org/giving. You may also write a check to St. Paul’s UMC and add Marian House Kitchen to the memo line.
Thank you for your generosity.

Each communion Sunday thereafter we will have a basket for those who feel called to give above and beyond their pledge. This "second-mile" giving will help fund the pastor's discretionary fund, which helps meet community needs as they arise, such as gas, lodging, clothing, etc. Feel free to bring your spare cash and change to help make a change in the lives of those in need.

5:00p Youth Group at Calvary UMC
Monday
6:30p Jubilee Bell Rehearsal
7:00p Vocal Fusion Rehearsal
7:30p Peak Experience Barbershop Chorus

January Events

Office closed 1/20

January 19, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service

Gathering

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Pastor Donnie Sturgill

Threshold Moment
Pastor Donnie Sturgill

*Worshipping Song
Lift Every Voice and Sing
UMH #519
1. Lift every voice and sing,
till earth and heaven ring,
ring with the harmonies
of liberty;

let our rejoicing rise
high as the listening skies,
let it resound
loud as the rolling sea.

Sing a song
full of the faith
that the dark past
has taught us;

sing a song
full of the hope
that the present
has brought us;

facing the rising sun
of our new day begun,
let us march on
till victory is won.

2. Stony the road we trod,
bitter the chastening rod,
felt in the days when
hope unborn had died;

yet with a steady beat,
have not our weary feet
come to the place
for which our
fathers sighed?

We have come
over a way
that with tears
has been watered;

we have come,
treading our path
thru the blood
of the slaughtered,

out from the gloomy past,
till now we stand at last
where the white gleam
of our bright star is cast.

3. God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
thou who hast brought us
thus far on the way;

Thou who hast
by Thy might
led us into the light,
keep us forever
in the path, we pray.

Lest our feet
stray from the
places, our God,
where we met Thee;

lest our hearts
drunk with the wine
of the world,
we forget Thee;

shadowed beneath
Thy hand,
may we forever stand,
true to our God,
true to our native land.

*Opening Hymn
For the Healing of the Nation
UMH #428
1. For the healing
of the nations,
Lord, we pray
with one accord;

for a just and
equal sharing
of the things
that earth affords;

to a life of love in action
help us rise and
pledge our word,
(pledge our word)

help us rise and
pledge our word.

2. Lead us forward
into freedom;
from despair
your world release,

that, redeemed
from war and hatred,
all may come
and go in peace.

Show us how through
care and goodness
fear will die
and hope increase,
(hope increase)

fear will die
and hope increase.

3. All that kills
abundant living,
let it from the
earth be banned;

pride of status,
race, or schooling,
dogmas that
obscure your plan.

In our common
quest for justice
may we hallow
life’s brief span,
(life’s brief span)

may we hallow
life’s brief span.

4. You, Creator
God, have written
your great name
on humankind;

for our growing
in your likeness
bring the life of
Christ to mind,

that by our
response and service
earth its destiny
may find,
(may find)
earth its destiny
may find.

*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box

A Word of Inspiration

Scripture Reading
Isaiah 58:6-12
Pastor Donnie Sturgill

Is not this the fast that I choose:
    to loose the bonds of injustice,
    to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
    and to break every yoke?
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
    and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
    and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
    and your healing shall spring up quickly;
your vindicator shall go before you;
    the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer;
    you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am.”
If you remove the yoke from among you,
    the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,
if you offer your food to the hungry
    and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,
then your light shall rise in the darkness
    and your gloom be like the noonday.
The Lord will guide you continually
    and satisfy your needs in parched places
    and make your bones strong,
and you shall be like a watered garden,
    like a spring of water
    whose waters never fail.
 Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt;
    you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
you shall be called the repairer of the breach,
    the restorer of streets to live in.
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
Justice and Mercy
Gabrielle Brown

Prayer

Prayer Song
Spirit of the Living God
UMH #393
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.

Melt me, mold me,
fill me, use me.
Spirit of the living God,
fall afresh on me.

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

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

Invitation to Offering
Pastor Donnie Sturgill

Offertory

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!

Sending Forth

*Closing Hymn
This Is My Song
UMH #437

1. This is my song,
O God of all the nations,
a song of peace
for lands afar and mine.
This is my home,
the country where
my heart is,
here are my hopes,
my dreams, my holy shrine;
but others hearts
in other lands are beating
with hopes and dreams
as true and high as mine.

2. My country’s skies
are bluer than the ocean,
and sunlight beams
on cloverleaf and pine;
but other lands
have sunlight too,
and clover,
and skies are everywhere
as blue as mine.
O hear my song,
thou God of all the nations,
a song of peace
for their land
and for mine.

3. This is my prayer,
O Lord of all
earth’s kingdoms:
Thy kingdom come;
on earth thy will be done.
Let Christ be lifted
up till all shall serve him,
and hearts united
learn to live as one.
O hear my prayer,
thou God of
all the nations;
myself I give thee;
let thy will be done.

*Benediction
Gabrielle Brown

Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts