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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 26, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service

Gathering

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Rev. David Petty

Crossing the Threshold

Threshold Moment
Rev. David Petty

*Worshiping Song
The Gift of Love
UMH #408

1. Though I may speak
with bravest fire,
and have the gift
to all inspire,

and have not love,
my words are vain,
as sounding brass,
and hopeless gain.

2. Though I may give
all I possess,
and striving so
my love profess,

but not be given
by love within,
the profit soon
turns strangely thin.

3. Come, Spirit, come,
our hearts control,
our spirits long
to be made whole.

Let inward love
guide every deed;
by this we worship,
and are freed.

*Opening Hymn
We Are the Church
UMH #558

Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!

All who follow Jesus,
all around the world!
Yes, we’re the
church together!

1. The church is
not a building,
the church is not a steeple,
the church is
not a resting place,
the church is a people.

Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!

All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!

2. We’re many
kinds of people,
with many kinds of faces,
all colors and
all ages, too,
from all times and places.

Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!

All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!

3. Sometimes the
church is marching,
sometimes it’s
bravely burning,
sometimes it’s riding,
sometimes hiding,
always it’s learning.

Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!

All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!

4. And when the
people gather,
there’s singing
and there’s praying,
there’s laughing and
there’s crying sometimes,
all of it saying:

Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!

All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!

5. At Pentecost some people
received the Holy Spirit
and told the Good News
through the world
to all who would hear it.

Refrain
I am the church!
You are the church!
We are the
church together!

All who follow Jesus
all around the world
Yes, we’re the
church together!

*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box

A Word of Inspiration

Scripture Reading
Luke 4:14-21; 1 Corinthians 12:12-31
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Then Jesus, in the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee, and a report about him spread through all the surrounding region. He began to teach in their synagogues and was praised by everyone.
When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
    because he has anointed me
        to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
    and recovery of sight to the blind,
        to set free those who are oppressed,
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.
Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work powerful deeds? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

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
The Church is Bigger than You Think
Rev. David Petty

Prayer

Prayer Song
Come and Find the Quiet Center
TFWS #2128

1. Come and find
the quiet center
in the crowded
life we lead,

find the room
for hope to enter,
find the frame
where we are freed:

Clear the chaos
and the clutter,
clear our eyes
that we can see.

all the things
that really matter,
be at peace,
and simply be.

2. Silence is a
friend who claims us,
cools the heat
and slows the pace,

God it is who
speaks and names us,
knows our being,
touches base,

making space
within our thinking,
lifting shades to
show the sun,

raising courage
when we’re shrinking,
finding scope
for faith begun.

3. In the Spirit let us travel,
open to each other’s pain,
let our loves
and fears unravel,
 celebrate the
space we gain:

There’s a place
for deepest dreaming,
there’s a time for
heart to care,

in the Spirit’s
lively scheming
there is always
room to spare.

Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
CLM Twinkle Gordon

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
CLM Twinkle Gordon

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!

Sending Forth

*Closing Hymn
The Church’s One Foundation
UMH #545

1. The church’s one foundation
is Jesus Christ her Lord;
she is his new creation
by water and the Word.

From heaven he
came and sought her
to be his holy bride;
with his own blood
he bought her,
and for her life he died.

2. Elect from every nation,
yet one o’er all the earth;
her charter of salvation,
one Lord, one faith,
one birth;

one holy name
she blesses,
partakes one holy food,
and to one hope
she presses,
with every grace endued.

3. Though with a
scornful wonder
we see her
sore oppressed,
by schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed,

yet saints their
watch are keeping;
their cry goes up, “How long?”
And soon the
night of weeping
shall be the morn of song.

4. Mid toil and tribulation,
and tumult of her war,
she waits
the consummation
of peace forevermore;

till, with the
vision glorious,
her longing eyes are blest,
and the great
church victorious
shall be the church at rest.

5. Yet she on
earth hath union
with God the Three in One,
and mystic
sweet communion
with those whose rest is won.

O happy ones and holy!
Lord, give us grace that we
like them,
the meek and lowly,
on high may
dwell with thee.

*Benediction
Rev. David Petty

Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts