Pastor: David Range
We are back in the sanctuary and you are invited to join us!
The Twitter icon is back on the restored miramarumc.org website
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.
Celebrating 61 years!
January 30, 2022
10:00 a.m. service
Please see the end of the bulletin for some additional important information
CALL TO WORSHIP
We gather for worship recalling the word of the Lord to the prophet, Jeremiah: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”
"Ah, Lord GOD! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am only a child.”
"Do not say, 'I am only a child'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the LORD.”
Then the LORD put out his hand and touched my mouth; and the LORD said to me, "Now I have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”
Let us sing to the Lord who knows us, calls us, empowers us to speak in word and deed of his saving grace.
*HYMN 128 He Leadeth Me: O Blessed Thought+
1. He leadeth me: O blessed thought!
O words with heavenly comfort fraught!
Whate’er I do, where’er I be, still ’tis God’s hand that leadeth me.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
2. Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom,
sometimes where Eden’s bowers bloom,
by waters still, o’er troubled sea, still ’tis his hand that leadeth me.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
3. Lord, I would place my hand in thine, nor ever murmur nor repine;
content, whatever lot I see, since ’tis my God that leadeth me.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
4. And when my task on earth is done,
when by thy grace the victory’s won,
e’en death’s cold wave I will not flee,
since God through Jordan leadeth me.
He leadeth me, he leadeth me, by his own hand he leadeth me;
his faithful follower I would be, for by his hand he leadeth me.
WORDS: Paul Gerhardt, 1653; trans. by John Wesley, 1739 MUSIC: William H. Walter, 1894
GATHERING PRAYER (inspired by Psalm 71)
*PRAISE AND WORSHIP
"Halle, Halle, Hallelujah"
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Hallelujah!
I AM the Rock of Ages…cleft for me
I AM the “let me hide myself in thee”
I Am the Rock of Ages…cleft for me.. Halle-lu-jah!
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Hallelujah!
I AM the Bread of Life…feed on me, I AM the One True Vine…grow in me
I AM the Bread of Life…feed on me.. Halle-lu-jah!
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Hallelujah!
I AM the Resurrection…live in me, I AM the Way, the Truth…follow me
I AM the Resurrection…live in me.. Halle-lu-jah!
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah
Halle, halle, halle-lu-jah, Halle-lu-jah!
People Need the Lord
People need the Lord….people need the Lord.
At the end of broken dreams…He’s the open door.
People need the Lord….people need the Lord.
When will we re-al-ize…people need the Lord.
Trees of the Field
You shall go out with joy
And be led forth with peace
The mountains and the hills
Will break forth before you
There'll be shouts of joy
And all the trees of the field
Will clap, will clap their hands
And all the trees of the field
Will clap their hands
The trees of the field
Will clap their hands
The trees of the field
Will clap their hands
While you go out with joy
WELCOME AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
We are glad you could join us in-person in the sanctuary or online. Please reach out to someone and greet them with the love of Christ. We ask that for greeting that you look into someone’s eyes, nod and say, “the peace of the Lord be with you” or some other greeting. Please keep touching to a minimum.
BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARIES
Please continue to worship with us online or in person at 8:30 or 11:00 a.m. except for the 5th Sunday of the month or special occasions when we have just one service at 10:00 a.m. 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!
TODAY: Sunday School at 4:00 p.m. online with Marvia Aitken and friends. Please contact Marvia for the link at marviaaitken@hotmail.com
Church Prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: NO Bible Study
THURSDAY: Food distribution starts between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. You are invited to bring packing boxes for volunteers to put food in.
NEXT SUNDAY 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. services
On Saturday Feb. 12 from 4 to 5:30 Pastor David will start 10 weeks of confirmation classes leading to full membership. The dates and topics are
Feb. 12—God, Sin & Grace, Feb. 19—Jesus Christ: Our Savior,
Feb. 26—The Gift of the Spirit, March 5--Worship & Word,
March 12—The Body of Christ in Action, March 19—Our United Methodist Heritage, March 26--United Methodists Believe,
April 2--Claim the Name, April 9--Our Church and others, Final Words and Service, April 26—make up class if needed.
These are planned to be in the Fellowship Hall with social distancing and other covid protocols.
Sunday, Feb. 13 after each morning service there will be New Member Sessions for those who are confirmed and who would like to more fully engage in the life of this church and become members. You need to only attend once in the pastor’s office and each session is usually about an hour long when old and new members share about how they found the church, a little about our backgrounds and our hopes for our Christian walk.
On a Sunday after the New Member Session and the Confirmation Classes there will be a public recognition and the right hand of fellowship given to each person joining the church.
SUNDAY February 13 UMW Valentine’s Soup & Bake Sale. Please see flyer and order form at the end of bulletin
Bold Justice dates:
Further research committees February 8, March 15.
Rally Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30 p.m.
Nehemiah Action Monday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m.
Justice Ministry Celebration Tuesday, June 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Thanks to all who have brought in their “end of year” gift envelopes! Please pick up your new offering envelope packets or join e-giving on miramarumc.org
Place Your Order for Free At-Home COVID-19 Tests at USPS.COM
Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of 4 free at-home tests from USPS.com. Here’s what you need to know about your order:
Limit of one order per residential address
One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen COVID-19 tests
Orders will ship free starting in late January
For the Sharing of the Spirit, remain seated and wave, nod and smile at your neighbor.
Please stand for the gospel according to Luke 4:21-30
CHILDREN’S TIME: On the Way in Many Ways https://www.fumch.org/success-stories/
*HYMN 494 Kum Ba Yah+
1 Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah!
Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah!
Kum ba yah, my Lord, kum ba yah!
O Lord, kum ba yah!
2 Someone’s praying, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone’s praying, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone’s praying, Lord, kum ba yah!
O Lord, kum ba yah!
3 Someone’s crying, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone’s crying, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone’s crying, Lord, kum ba yah!
O Lord, kum ba yah!
4 Someone needs you, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone needs you, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone needs you, Lord, kum ba yah!
O Lord, kum ba yah!
5 Someone’s singing, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone’s singing, Lord, kum ba yah!
Someone’s singing, Lord, kum ba yah!
O Lord, kum ba yah!
6 Let us praise the Lord, kum ba yah!
Let us praise the Lord, kum ba yah!
Let us praise the Lord, kum ba yah!
O Lord, kum ba yah!
WORDS: Afro-American spiritual MUSIC: Afro-American spiritual; harm. by Carlton R. Young, 1988, 1986
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 FLUMC 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 intro section before 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
TIME OF SHARING JOYS & CONCERNS
(please mailto:miramarpastor@gmail.com)
PRAYER HYMN 373 Nothing Between+
1. Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
naught of this world’s delusive dream;
I have renounced all sinful pleasure;
Jesus is mine, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
so that his blessed face may be seen;
nothing preventing the least of his favor;
keep the way clear! let nothing between.
2. Nothing between, like worldly pleasure;
habits of life, though harmless they seem,
must not my heart from him ever sever,
he is my all, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
so that his blessed face may be seen;
nothing preventing the least of his favor;
keep the way clear! let nothing between.
3. Nothing between, like pride or station;
self or friends shall not intervene;
though it may cost me much tribulation,
I am resolved, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
so that his blessed face may be seen;
nothing preventing the least of his favor;
keep the way clear! let nothing between.
4. Nothing between, e’en many hard trials,
though the whole world against me convene;
watching with prayer and much self-denial,
I’ll triumph at last, there’s nothing between.
Nothing between my soul and my Savior,
so that his blessed face may be seen;
nothing preventing the least of his favor;
keep the way clear! let nothing between.
WORDS: Charles Albert Tindley, ca. 1906 MUSIC: Charles Albert Tindley, ca. 1906
PASTORAL PRAYER and 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: Known For What? Pastor CJ Walter
Excerpt from Katharine Hayhoe’s article in The Washington Post, 01.14.2022: 2021 was climate chaos. Let’s make 2022 better.
Dr. Hayhoe "is an atmospheric scientist who studies climate change and why it matters to us here and now. Hayhoe is a distinguished professor and endowed chair at Texas Tech University and Chief Scientist at The Nature Conservancy. She is the suthor of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World (One Signal/Simon & Schuster, 2021)."
The last lines of her article are, "We cannot change the world by ourselves. We have to do it together. And the first step is to connect our heads to our hearts and to our hands — so we understand not just what’s happening to our world, but why we care and what we can do about it.”
HYMN OF SENDING FORTH 408 The Gift Of Love+
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.
WORDS: Hal Hopson, 1972 MUSIC: Trad. English melody; adapt. by Hal Hopson, 1972
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 www.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 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 www.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
For further information contact
EMAIL ADDRESS
jamaicahi5k@gmail.com
CONTACT PERSON
Eddy Edwards
Or contact Allison Feurtado at 954 483 3792, asimonefeurtado@hotmail.com
