August 31, 2025
August 31, 2025
August Mission - B-COS We Care - Beyond the Classroom
(Formerly The Assistance League)
B-COS We Care about our students……..
As of May 2025, Beyond the Classroom has provided clothing to over 105,000 students. During the 2024–2025 school year alone, the program assisted students from 70 schools across El Paso County, offering clothing, hygiene items, and $75 Famous Footwear gift cards.
A total of 1,700 students received these items. In addition, 470 students from eastern El Paso County and additional students in our area received $75 Famous Footwear gift cards. Our four major events, held over nine weeks, took place at the Family Success Center, hosted by Pikes Peak United Way. While families selected clothing and hygiene items during the events, many also accessed additional services offered at the Family Success Center.
This program works closely with school counselors and liaisons in high-need schools, identified using federal free and reduced lunch data. Designated schools receive student allotments and are responsible for scheduling families to attend events. Beyond the Classroom is grateful for its partnership with Pikes Peak United Way and the Family Success Center, which provide valuable wraparound services for families in need. For the second consecutive year, Widefield High School also supported the program by holding a coat and blanket drive to help keep students warm.
Recent Program Impact
During the 2024–2025 school year, the program distributed 1,700 Famous Footwear gift cards, over 6,000 pieces of clothing, and 6,800 hygiene items to students in need. Beyond the Classroom also reached an additional 16 schools in the Pikes Peak region, distributing 470 more gift cards—all within an annual budget of $225,000.
(Formerly The Assistance League)
B-COS We Care about our students……..
As of May 2025, Beyond the Classroom has provided clothing to over 105,000 students. During the 2024–2025 school year alone, the program assisted students from 70 schools across El Paso County, offering clothing, hygiene items, and $75 Famous Footwear gift cards.
A total of 1,700 students received these items. In addition, 470 students from eastern El Paso County and additional students in our area received $75 Famous Footwear gift cards. Our four major events, held over nine weeks, took place at the Family Success Center, hosted by Pikes Peak United Way. While families selected clothing and hygiene items during the events, many also accessed additional services offered at the Family Success Center.
This program works closely with school counselors and liaisons in high-need schools, identified using federal free and reduced lunch data. Designated schools receive student allotments and are responsible for scheduling families to attend events. Beyond the Classroom is grateful for its partnership with Pikes Peak United Way and the Family Success Center, which provide valuable wraparound services for families in need. For the second consecutive year, Widefield High School also supported the program by holding a coat and blanket drive to help keep students warm.
Recent Program Impact
During the 2024–2025 school year, the program distributed 1,700 Famous Footwear gift cards, over 6,000 pieces of clothing, and 6,800 hygiene items to students in need. Beyond the Classroom also reached an additional 16 schools in the Pikes Peak region, distributing 470 more gift cards—all within an annual budget of $225,000.
Gathering
August 31, 2025 9:30 am Worship Service
Gathering
Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Welcome
Crossing the Threshold
Call to Worship
Lu Petersen
Leader: Today we come not just to believe, but to live what we believe.
People: Our faith is more than words
Leader: We are moved by the Spirit, and sent forth with purpose.
People: We’re growing together, led by Christ.
Leader: Christ lives in us - not just for Sunday, but for every single day.
People: May our faith come alive in what we do, in how we love, in who we serve.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We will rejoice and be glad in it!
*Worship Song
Take My Life and Let It Be
UMH #399
1. Take my life, and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments
and my days;
let them flow
in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands,
and let them move
at the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet,
and let them be
swift and beautiful for Thee.
2. Take my voice,
and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips,
and let them be
filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver
and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect, and use
every power as
Thou shalt choose.
3. Take my will,
and make it Thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart,
it is Thine own;
it shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love,
my Lord, I pour
at Thy feet its
treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for Thee.
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ
Mystery Box
Gathering
Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Welcome
Crossing the Threshold
Call to Worship
Lu Petersen
Leader: Today we come not just to believe, but to live what we believe.
People: Our faith is more than words
Leader: We are moved by the Spirit, and sent forth with purpose.
People: We’re growing together, led by Christ.
Leader: Christ lives in us - not just for Sunday, but for every single day.
People: May our faith come alive in what we do, in how we love, in who we serve.
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We will rejoice and be glad in it!
*Worship Song
Take My Life and Let It Be
UMH #399
1. Take my life, and let it be
consecrated, Lord, to Thee.
Take my moments
and my days;
let them flow
in ceaseless praise.
Take my hands,
and let them move
at the impulse of Thy love.
Take my feet,
and let them be
swift and beautiful for Thee.
2. Take my voice,
and let me sing
always, only, for my King.
Take my lips,
and let them be
filled with messages from Thee.
Take my silver
and my gold;
not a mite would I withhold.
Take my intellect, and use
every power as
Thou shalt choose.
3. Take my will,
and make it Thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart,
it is Thine own;
it shall be Thy royal throne.
Take my love,
my Lord, I pour
at Thy feet its
treasure-store.
Take myself, and I will be
ever, only, all for Thee.
*Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ
Mystery Box
A Word of Inspiration
Scripture Reading
James 2:14-18,26
Galatians 5:22-25
Ephesians 2:8-10
Galatians 2:20
Lu Petersen
James 2:14-18,26
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith.
Galatians 5:22-25
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.
Galatians 2:20
and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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 Breathes
Shay Batte
James 2:14-18,26
Galatians 5:22-25
Ephesians 2:8-10
Galatians 2:20
Lu Petersen
James 2:14-18,26
What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith.
Galatians 5:22-25
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:8-10
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God— not the result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.
Galatians 2:20
and it is no longer I who live, but it is Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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 Breathes
Shay Batte
Prayer
Prayer
Pastoral Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
Shay Batte
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
Pastoral Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
Shay Batte
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
Giving Back
Invitation to Offering
Lu Petersen
Offertory
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Shay Batte
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!
Invitation to Offering
Lu Petersen
Offertory
Prayer of Thanksgiving
Shay Batte
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
Forth in Thy Name, O Lord
UMH #438
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1749
1. Forth in thy name,
O Lord, I go,
my daily labor
to pursue;
thee, only thee,
resolved to know
in all I think
or speak or do.
2. The task thy wisdom
hath assigned,
O let me
cheerfully fulfill;
in all my works
thy presence find,
and prove thy good
and perfect will.
3. Thee may I set
at my right hand,
whose eyes mine
inmost substance see,
and labor on
at thy command,
and offer all my
works to thee.
4. For thee
delightfully employ
whate’er thy bounteous
grace hath given;
and run my course
with even joy,
and closely walk
with thee to heaven.
*Benediction
Shay Batte
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Forth in Thy Name, O Lord
UMH #438
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1749
1. Forth in thy name,
O Lord, I go,
my daily labor
to pursue;
thee, only thee,
resolved to know
in all I think
or speak or do.
2. The task thy wisdom
hath assigned,
O let me
cheerfully fulfill;
in all my works
thy presence find,
and prove thy good
and perfect will.
3. Thee may I set
at my right hand,
whose eyes mine
inmost substance see,
and labor on
at thy command,
and offer all my
works to thee.
4. For thee
delightfully employ
whate’er thy bounteous
grace hath given;
and run my course
with even joy,
and closely walk
with thee to heaven.
*Benediction
Shay Batte
Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts
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