August 2, 2026

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.

August 2, 2026 9:30 am Worship Service
Gathering
Prelude
Cynthia Hibbetts
Welcome
Dominick Nors
Crossing the Threshold
Call to Worship
CLM Twinkle Gordon
 
Leader: Come and gather in worship as we hear once again the stories of Jesus - stories that remind us to make room for both loving service and faithful listening.
People: We come to listen and to serve that our lives may overflow with love, grace, and understanding.
 
Leader: This is the day that the Lord has made.
People: We will rejoice and be glad in it!
 
Threshold Song
Tell Me the Stories of Jesus
UMH #277
 
WORDS: William H. Parker, 1885
(Mt. 19:13-15; 21:8-9; Mk. 10:13-16; 11:8-10; Jn. 12:13) 
 
1. Tell me the
stories of Jesus
I love to hear;
things I would ask
him to tell me
if he were here:
 
scenes by the wayside,
tales of the sea,
stories of Jesus,
tell them to me.
 
2. First let me hear
how the children
stood round his knee,
and I shall fancy
his blessing
resting on me;
 
words full of kindness,
deeds full of grace,
all in the lovelight
of Jesus’ face.
 
3. Into the city I’d follow
the children’s band,
waving a branch
of the palm tree
high in my hand;
 
one of his heralds,
yes, I would sing
loudest hosannas,
“Jesus is King!”
 
*Hymn
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
UMH #103
WORDS: Walter Chalmers Smith, 1867 (1 Tim. 1:17)
 
1. Immortal, invisible,
God only wise,
in light inaccessible
hid from our eyes,
 
most blessed,
most glorious,
the Ancient of Days,
almighty, victorious,
thy great name we praise.
 
2. Unresting, unhasting,
and silent as light,
nor wanting, nor wasting,
thou rulest in might;
 
thy justice
like mountains
high soaring above
thy clouds
which are fountains
of goodness and love.
 
3. To all, life thou givest,
to both great and small;
in all life thou livest,
the true life of all;
 
we blossom and flourish
as leaves on the tree,
and wither and perish,
but naught changeth thee.
 
4. Thou reignest in glory;
thou dwellest in light;
thine angels adore thee,
all veiling their sight;
 
all laud we would render:
O help us to see
’tis only the splendor
of light hidest thee.

*Hymn
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
v. 1-2 UMH #117
WORDS: Isaac Watts, 1719 (Ps. 90)
 
1. O God, our help
in ages past,
our hope for years to come,
our shelter from
the stormy blast,
and our eternal home!
 
2. Under the shadow
of thy throne,
still may we dwell secure;
sufficient is thine
arm alone,
and our defense is sure.
 
*Announcements/Greet Your Neighbor – Passing the Peace of Christ

Mystery Box

Prayer
 
Prayer, Silent Prayer, The Lord’s Prayer
Dominick Nors
 
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

Invitation to Offering
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Offering

Doxology
Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
 
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!

Scripture Reading

Luke 10:38-42
CLM Twinkle Gordon

Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at Jesus’s feet and listened to what he was saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks, so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself? Tell her, then, to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things, but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

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
Jesus Re-frames Faith:
One Needful Thing
Dominick Nors

Communion

Pastor: The Lord be with you.

People: And also with you.

Pastor: Lift up your hearts. The pastor may lift hands and keep them raised.

People: We lift them up to the Lord.

Pastor: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

People: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Pastor: It is right, and a good and joyful thing,
always and everywhere to give thanks to you,
Almighty God, creator of heaven and earth.
You formed us in your image and breathed into us the breath of life.
When we turned away, and our love failed, your love remained steadfast.
You delivered us from captivity, made covenant to be our sovereign God,
brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey,
and set before us the way of life.
And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
 
People: Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of power and might,
heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Pastor: Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.
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.
By your great mercy we have been born anew
to a living hope through the resurrection of your Son from the dead
and to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading.
Once we were no people, but now we are your people,
declaring your wonderful deeds in Christ,
who called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
When the Lord Jesus ascended, he promised to be with us always,
in the power of your Word and Holy Spirit.
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."
On the day you raised him from the dead
he was recognized by his disciples in the breaking of the bread, and in the power of your Holy Spirit your Church has continued in the breaking of the bread and the sharing of the cup.
And so, in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ, we offer ourselves in praise and thanksgiving as a holy and living sacrifice, in union with Christ's offering for us, as we proclaim the mystery of faith.
 
People: Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.

Pastor: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us gathered here,
and on these gifts of bread and wine.
Make them be for us the body and blood of Christ,
that we may be for the world the body of Christ, redeemed by his blood.
By your Spirit make us one with Christ,
one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world, until Christ comes 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 for ever.
 
All: Amen.

*Closing Hymn
Give to the Winds Thy Fears
UMH #129
WORDS: Paul Gerhardt, 1653; trans. by John Wesley, 1739 (Ps. 37:5)
 
1. Give to the winds thy fears;
hope and be undismayed.
God hears thy sighs
and counts thy tears,
God shall lift up thy head.
 
2. Through waves and
clouds and storms,
God gently clears thy way;
wait thou God’s time;
so shall this night
soon end in joyous day.
 
3. Leave to God’s
sovereign sway
to choose and to command;
so shalt thou, wondering,
own that way,
how wise,
how strong this hand.
 
4. Let us in life, in death,
thy steadfast
truth declare,
and publish with
our latest breath
thy love and
guardian care.
 
*Benediction
Rev. David Petty

Postlude
Cynthia Hibbetts