Pastor: David Range
April 23, 2023
Miramar United Methodist Church
in the heart of Miramar, a place for gathering, healing, and sending out friends, helping to create a sense of family to find new life in Christ.
Part of the United Methodist family where we make disciples for the
Transformation of the world.
Order of Worship
April 23, 2023
8:30 & 11:00 a.m. services
Please see the end of the bulletin for some additional important information
CALL TO WORSHIP
Hymn 304 Easter People Raise Your Voices+
1. Easter people, raise your voices, sounds of heaven in earth should ring.
Christ has brought us heaven’s choices; heavenly music, let it ring.
Alleluia! Alleluia! Easter people, let us sing.
2. Fear of death can no more stop us from our pressing here below.
For our Lord empowered us to triumph over every foe.
Alleluia! Alleluia! On to victory now we go.
3. Every day to us is Easter, with its resurrection song.
When in trouble move the faster to our God who rights the wrong.
Alleluia! Alleluia! See the power of heavenly throngs.
WORDS: William M. James, 1979 MUSIC: Henry T. Smart, 1867
OPENING PRAYER
*PRAISE AND WORSHIP
We’re The People Of God
With our lips let us sing one confession
With our hearts hold to one truth above
For he has erased our transgressions
Claimed up and called us his own
his very own
We’re the people of God called by his name
Called from the dark and delivered from shame
One holy race, saints every one
Because of the blood of Christ Jesus, the Son
Peace Like A River
1 I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like a river;
I’ve got peace like a river in my soul.
I’ve got peace like a river, I’ve got peace like a river;
I’ve got peace like a river in my soul.
2 I’ve got love like an ocean, I’ve got love like an ocean;
I’ve got love like an ocean in my soul.
I’ve got love like an ocean, I’ve got love like an ocean;
I’ve got love like an ocean in my soul.
3 I’ve got joy like a fountain, I’ve got joy like a fountain;
I’ve got joy like a fountain in my soul.
I’ve got joy like a fountain, I’ve got joy like a fountain;
I’ve got joy like a fountain in my soul.
We Will Glorify
We will glorify the King of Kings, we will glorify the Lamb
We will glorify the Lord of Lords, who is the Great I Am
Lord Jehovah reigns in majesty, we will bow before His throne
We will worship Him in righteousness, we will worship Him alone
Hallelujah to the King of kings, hallelujah to the Lamb
Hallelujah to the Lord of Lords, who is the great I Am.
I Love You Lord
I love you Lord, and I lift my voice, to worship you, oh my soul rejoice
Take joy my King…in what you hear,
may it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear.
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Birthdays and Anniversaries
Happy birthday to you, Jesus loves you it’s true,
May the Lord bless and keep you,
Happy birthday to you.
Happy Anniversary to you, happy Anniversary to you
Happy Anniversary dear friends, happy Anniversary to you
TODAY: After the 11:00 a.m. service the Men’s Group have singing practice to get ready for Mother’s Day. All men are welcome to this high calling.
TODAY: Church Prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: Farm Share truck unloading.
WEDNESDAY: Bible study at 7:00 p.m.
THURSDAY: Food Distribution at 8:00 a.m. Choir 7:00 p.m.
FRIDAY: Children’s Club 7-8:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: The United Methodist Men will be having a prayer meeting with brunch from 8:30 to 10:30, all are invited to share in this time together.
SATURDAY: Confirmation class, 4-5:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: Resource Fair at the Multi Service Complex at 6700 Miramar Parkway, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. where you are invited by the Social Services to come out and learn about resources available to the community. Come for a health check, mammogram, HIV testing, Kid’s Zone, Parent Resources, Walk-Up Food Distribution. Please see flyer at the end of the bulletin.
SATURDAY: Youth Group 4-5:30 p.m.
NEXT SUNDAY: One Joint Worship service at 10:00 a.m. for the fifth Sunday of the month. There will be a New Members session after the service.
Thanks to all who attended the Bold Justice Nehemiah Action where we got four “yeses” and no “noes” in our attempts to reduce unnecessary arrests and to reduce the impact of climate change on our county. We now begin our congregational investment drive which has been very well supported in the past. Thanks to all who have invested in a better Broward county and we look forward to record giving this year. If you are writing a check please make it out to “Bold Justice” instead of the church, and give it directly to your team member or network member and consider it part of your standing bold… for justice!
MONDAY, May 1 Vacation Bible School planning meeting, 7:30 p.m. in the fellowship hall.
Jamaica 5-K Run & Walk, Saturday May 6, starting at 7:00 a.m. at Miramar Regional Park. Early registration is $35 until March 31. See details on flyer at the end of the bulletin.
The Memorial Day Picnic is 43 days away! We hope it is the best picnic ever! The planning committee will ask for volunteers later to give everyone a chance to serve if you would like on the day. We also invite those who wish to donate money to see Clinton Taylor, Stanford Smith, Gwen Pickering or John Tapper who will give you an envelope or a receipt for any money donated. If you wish to write a check to MUMC please put in the memo line “designated picnic fund.”
Summer Camp July 3 to 8 is available for those going into 4th grade to 12th grade. Pastor David can drive the bus but parents and their youth need to register online at https://wwumccc.org/programs/classic-camps/
and talk to Pastor David about the three tiers of pricing for the camp this year.
We need help with the Tech Team! If you are open to receive training in how to bring online the YouTube and Twitter platforms, or be willing to run the PowerPoint, please talk to Pastor David.
Donna Simms was on Cloud 9 after the April 26 service honoring her 50 years of service to the church as musician and choir director. Please use the envelopes in the pews, or any marked envelope, to give a gift to Donna or to write her a note of thanks.
Upper Room daily devotionals for May & June are now available. Please pick one up from the back table. Suggested contribution: $1.00
For Sharing of the Spirit, please wave at the YouTube camera and say, “the peace of the Lord be with you,” and then wave at your neighbor in the sanctuary and say, “and also with you”.
Please stand for the gospel according to Luke 24:13-35
CHILDREN’S TIME
*HYMN 369 Blessed Assurance+
1 Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchased of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.
2 Perfect submission, perfect delight,
visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above,
echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.
3 Perfect submission, all is at rest;
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with his goodness, lost in his love
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song, praising my Savior all the day long.
WORDS: Fanny J. Crosby, 1873 MUSIC: Phoebe P. Knapp, 1873
RECEPTION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
Please place your offering in the baskets at the 3 doors leading into the sanctuary on your way in or out.
The Mission Offering today is for Apportionments
Next Sunday our Mission Offering goes to FLUM Children’s Home
Prayer of Dedication
One minute musical interlude while worshipers prepare their offering. Instructions for giving online, by check or text are in the section after the Order of Service.
DOXOLOGY
Praise God from whom all blessings flow,
praise him all creatures here below,
praise him above, ye heavenly hosts,
praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen
Sunday School children go out to their classes
1 Jesus loves me! this I know, for the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to him belong; they are weak, but he is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
2 Jesus loves me, this I know, as he loved so long ago,
taking children on his knee, saying, "Let them come to me.“
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
3 Jesus loves me still today, walking with me on my way,
wanting as a friend to give, light and love to all who live.
Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me!
Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so.
WORDS: St. 1 Anna B. Warner, 1860; Sts. 2-3 David Rutherford MacGuire MUSIC: William B. Bradbury, 1862
TIME OF SHARING JOYS & CONCERNS
(please email miramarpastor@gmail.com)
PRAYER HYMN 452 My Faith Looks Up to Thee+
1 My faith looks up to thee, thou Lamb of Calvary, Savior divine!
Now hear me while I pray, take all my guilt away,
O let me from this day be wholly thine!
2 May thy rich grace impart strength to my fainting heart,
my zeal inspire!
As thou hast died for me, O may my love to thee
pure, warm, and changeless be, a living fire!
3 While life's dark maze I tread, and griefs around me spread,
be thou my guide;
bid darkness turn to day, wipe sorrow's tears away,
nor let me ever stray from thee aside.
4 When ends life's transient dream,
when death's cold, sullen stream shall o'er me roll;
blest Savior, then, in love, fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above, a ransomed soul!
WORDS: Ray Palmer, 1875 MUSIC: Lowell Mason, 1831
PRAYER OF INTERCESSION AND 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;
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory,
For ever and ever. Amen.
SERMON Are you looking at trees or bread? Pastor David Range
HYMN OF SENDING FORTH 133 Leaning on the Everlasting Arms+
1. What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
what a blessedness, what a peace is mine,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
2 O how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way,
leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
3. What have I to dread, what have I to fear,
leaning on the everlasting arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near,
leaning on the everlasting arms.
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
WORDS: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1887 MUSIC: Anthony J. Showalter, 1887
BENEDICTION
+All music under ccli #24249
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We give God thanks for this opportunity to worship together in-person in our sanctuary as well as online. Please wear your mask and greet each with a wave, an elbow or fist bump. Please maintain social distance and sit at either end or the middle of the pew. In the pews we ask you to sit, in every other pew, spaced out as best you can. Seats are also available in the foyer and the fellowship hall if needed. Both have been set up with screens for the PowerPoint presentation and live video stream from the pulpit. We will continue to live stream the services on Twitter and YouTube for those who would like to continue to participate from home.
The offering will be received in the baskets at the three entry points of the sanctuary. No bulletins will be handed out, everything you need will be on the screens. No need to call or email ahead for a place to worship, you are invited to the sanctuary any time for in-person worship. Come as you are!
Remember there are two ways you can watch our services. One is on YouTube.com by typing in the search bar: Miramar UMC and then you should see the service live streamed. If you subscribe to our service through YouTube.com you can set up reminders for the day before or 15 minutes before, whatever you like.
The other way to “gather” in virtual worship is through the Twitter service available by going to our miramarumc.org website. Pass around the information so that others may join in worship by clicking on the Twitter bird icon on the home page. We will continue our 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. services (except when we have a fifth Sunday of the month 10:00 a.m. service.) If you lose the service for a few seconds do not worry it will probably come back, but if it is longer than a few seconds you might try clicking the refresh button in your browser window.
Please email your prayer requests for uplifting on Sundays by sending them to miramarpastor@gmail.com. It is best if you send them by Saturday NOON if possible.
Our church prayer meeting is online on Sundays at 7:30 p.m. and you may contact Marvia Aitken or Vinessa Edwards mamaness@bellsouth.net for the link.
This week, Monday through Thursday there will be someone in the church office from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. each day, and you may make an appointment to see the pastor at these or other times. Please remember to enter from the south entrance near the Pastor’s office. No other doors will be open for church business. The preschool is open but you should still come in by the south entrance because the north entrance from the parking lot must be dedicated for the little children of the preschool. Please let friends with preschool aged children know that they can enroll the children in our preschool.
WAYS to give:
1. Online giving is available through our website miramarumc.org. On the home page the ‘Donate’ icon (a hand with a dollar sign above it) is located at the top left corner and on the right under “Contact Us” you will see the same icon along with “Donate Online.” Click on either location for instructions. If you need help call the church office at 954-989-4711. Thanks to all who have signed up for this. The regular tithes and offerings of the church are a great source of blessing.
2. You can also mail a check to Miramar United Methodist Church. If you have your offering envelopes you will see that the address of the church is printed for mailing purposes and your offering can be mailed in this envelope when you apply a stamp. You may also use a regular envelope and address it to: MUMC, 2507 Utopia Drive, Miramar FL 33023. Just put your check inside, mark which funds you would like to support, put a stamp on and let the United States Postal Service do the rest! Or bring it by after the Sunday services, someone will be in the church for one hour after the worship finishes as well as Mon-Thurs 1-5 pm. We trust God will keep us strong.
3. Also, we have the option of giving by text! Use 833-931-1791 to GivePlusText and when you text any amount, by putting that number in the message, you will be prompted to register, then fill out the details of your name, address and means of payment, and the contribution will go in! If you enter an email address you will get an immediate receipt. It is easy! If you have an Apple phone you may also get Vanco’s GivePlusMobile by downloading the app from the App Store. You may also look up YouTube videos to show how all this is done.
Thank you for your prayers! Grace and peace, Pastor David
