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July Mission - Ronald McDonald House & Family Room
We provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
In support of our mission, the RMHCSC cornerstone programs are the Ronald McDonald House® and Ronald McDonald Family Room® (located in Children’s Hospital Colorado, Colorado Springs).
Our core values provide the foundation for decision-making and building for the future.
· We lead with compassion
· We are deeply respectful
· We act with integrity
We are firmly committed
Our vision is a world where every family has what they need to ensure the best health outcomes for their children.
Our purpose is to care for families with children who are ill or injured.
Non-Discrimination Statement
As our core values affirm, we commit to aligning our culture, business practices and the services we provide to be a beacon of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for all people.
The doors to our Ronald McDonald House® remain open for all seriously ill, hospitalized children and their families, ensuring they are together during a time of medical crisis. Just as accidents, injury and illness are the great levelers, so are dignity, kindness and equity. As a temporary home-away-from-home, families stay within steps and eyesight of their sick child. All races, colors, religions, national origins, genders, ages, sexual orientations, gender identification, gender variances, marital status, military status and/or physical or mental disabilities are welcome in the “House that Love Built”.

July 13, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service

Gathering

Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts

Welcome
Rev. David Petty

Crossing the Threshold

*Call to Worship
Rev. Sylvia Edwards

Leader: Today we gather, not just to worship, but to listen for God's calling.
 
People: We come to listen for justice, to learn more compassion, to live out God's love.

Leader: The scriptures challenge us to see the sacred in every neighbor.

People: God invites us to a new interpretation and to be a new kind of neighbor.

Leader: Remember - you are neighbors to one another and neighbors to all the world. This is the day that the Lord has made.

People: We will rejoice and be glad in it!

*Worshiping Song
Where Charity and Love Prevail
v. 1, 3, 5 UMH #549
 
1. Where charity and
love prevail,
there God is ever found;
 
brought here together
by Christ’s love,
by love are we thus bound.
 
3. Forgive we now
each other’s faults
as we our faults confess;
and let us love
each other well
in Christian holiness.
 
5. Let us recall
that in our midst
dwells God’s begotten Son;
as members of
his body joined,
we are in him made one.
 
*Gathering Song
Help Us to Accept Each Other
UMH #560
 
1. Help us accept each other
as Christ accepted us;
teach us as sister, brother,
each person to embrace.
 
Be present, Lord,
among us,
and bring us to believe
we are ourselves accepted
and meant to love and live.
 
2. Teach us, O Lord,
Your lessons,
as in our daily life
we struggle to be human
and search for
hope and faith.
 
Teach us to
care for people,
for all, not just for some,
to love them as
we find them,
or as they may become.
 
3. Let Your acceptance
change us,
so that we may be moved
in living situations
to do the truth in love;
 
to practice
Your acceptance,
until we know by heart
the table of forgiveness
and laughter’s healing art.
 
4. Lord, for
today’s encounters
with all who are in need,
who hunger
for acceptance,
for righteousness and bread.
 
We need new
eyes for seeing,
new hands for holding on;
renew us with Your Spirit;
Lord, free us,
make us one!
 
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box

Scripture Reading
Psalm 82
Rev. Sylvia Edwards

God has taken his place in the divine council; in the midst of the gods he holds judgment: “How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah Give justice to the weak and the orphan; maintain the right of the lowly and the destitute. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.” They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken. I say, “You are gods, children of the Most High, all of you; nevertheless, you shall die like mortals and fall like any  prince.” Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations belong to you!

Prayer
 
Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
TFWS #2193

Lord, listen to your
children praying,
Lord, send your Spirit
in this place;

Lord, listen to your
children praying,
send us love,
send us power,
send us grace.
 
Pastoral, Silent, and
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

Lord, Listen to Your Children Praying
TFWS #2193

Lord, listen to your
children praying,
Lord, send your Spirit
in this place;

Lord, listen to your
children praying,
send us love,
send us power,
send us grace.

Scripture Reading
Luke 10: 25-37
Rev. Sylvia Edwards

An expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will live.”

But wanting to vindicate himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and took off, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road, and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came upon him, and when he saw him he was moved with compassion. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, treating them with oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of him, and when I come back I will repay you whatever more you spend.’ Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

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
A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor
Rev. David Petty

Giving Back

Invitation to Offering
Rev. Sylvia Edwards

Offertory


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
Christ Has Broken Down the Wall
W&S #3122
Mark A. Miller
© 2011 Choristers Guild
 
1. Christ has broken down the wall,
Christ has broken down the wall.
Let us join our hearts as one,
Christ has broken down the wall.
 
2. We’re accepted as we are,
we’re accepted as we are.
Through God’s love
all is reconciled,
we’re accepted as we are.
 
3. Cast aside your 
doubts and fears,
cast aside your doubts and fears.
Peace and love, freely offered here; cast aside your
doubts and fears.
 
4. We will tear down the walls!
We will tear down the walls!
God has called us, one and all;
 
Christ has broken 
down the walls!
Christ has broken 
down the walls!
 
*Benediction
Rev. David Petty
 
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts