Pastor: David Range
September 1, 2024
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
September 1, 2024 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. services
Please see the end of the bulletin for some additional important information
CALL TO WORSHIP
HYMN 92 For the Beauty of the Earth+
1 For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies,
for the love which from our birth over and around us lies.
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
2 For the beauty of each hour of the day and of the night,
hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
3 For the joy of ear and eye, for the heart and mind's delight,
for the mystic harmony, linking sense to sound and sight;
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
4 For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
5 For thy church, that evermore lifteth holy hands above,
offering up on every shore her pure sacrifice of love;
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
6 For thyself, best Gift Divine, to the world so freely given,
for that great, great love of thine, peace on earth, and joy in heaven:
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
WORDS: Foliot S, Pierpoint, 1864 MUSIC: Conrad Kocher, 1838; arr. by W. H. Monk, 1861#242496oc
PRAYER
*PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Ah, Lord God
Ah, Lord God, Thou has made the heavens
And the earth by thy great power
Ah, Lord God, Thou has made the heavens
And the earth by Thine out – stretched arm
Nothing is too difficult for Thee
Nothing is too difficult for Thee
O great and mighty God
Great in counsel and mighty in deed
Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing
Nothing is too difficult for Thee
All over the world the Spirit is moving
1 All over the Church, the Spirit is moving,
All over the world, as the prophets said it would be;
All over the world, there’s a mighty revelation
Of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
2 All over the Church, God’s Spirit is moving,
All over His Church, as the prophets said it would be;
All over His Church, there’s a mighty revelation
Of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
3 Right here in this place, the Spirit is moving,
Right here in this place, as the prophets said it would be;
Right here in this place, there’s a mighty revelation
Of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Days of Elijah
These are the days of Elijah,
declaring the Word of the Lord
And these are the days of your servant Moses,
righteousness being restored
And though these are the days of great trials,
of famine and darkness and sword
Still we are a voice in the desert, crying
“Prepare ye the way of the Lord!"
Behold, he comes, riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun, at the trumpet call
Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee
Out of Zion's hill salvation comes.
These are the days of Ezekiel,
the dry bones becoming as flesh
And these are the days of your servant David
rebuilding a temple of praise.
These are the days of the harvest,
the fields are as white as the world,
And we are the laborers in the vineyard,
declaring the Word of the Lord.
Behold, he comes, riding on the clouds
Shining like the sun, at the trumpet call
Lift your voice, it’s the year of jubilee
Out of Zion's hill salvation comes.
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: United Methodist Men meet after the 11:00 a.m. service. This is a good time to join the group if you are looking for a great time of fellowship.
TODAY: After both services the Pastor Appreciation Team invites you to buy some chicken or vegetable soup, $10 for a container, so that you may support the fellowship we will have on Sunday, October 27 when we will have one joint 10:00 a.m. service for Pastor Appreciation Day. To place your order call Ola at 954 305 2501 or Vickey at 954 494 8414.
TONIGHT: Church Prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Staff/Parish Relations Committee 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: Preschool Board meets, 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: Choir at 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY: Food distribution 10:00 a.m.
NEXT SUNDAY: 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. services
Looking ahead:
MONDAY September 9, Trustees meet 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY September 10 Joyce Hemmans’ Bold Justice House meeting 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY September 11, Finance Committee, 7:00 p.m.
Clover Williams-Dussard Bold Justice House Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY September 15 Vinessa Edward’s Bold Justice House Meeting 4:00 p.m.
MONDAY September 16 Admin/Church Council, 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY September 17 Roland Abel’s Bold Justice House Meeting, 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY, September 29 is the fifth Sunday of the month so we will celebrate our life in Jesus with one joint 10:00 a.m. service. If you are interested in becoming a member of the church, or finding out more information about who we are and what we do you are invited to meet with the pastor and some longer serving members in the pastor’s office right after the service.
At the New Members Session, a date will be set to give the right hand of fellowship.
Later that day all are invited to the church conference (formerly the charge conference) to be held in the Hollywood Hills UMC, at 400 North 35 Ave, Hollywood at 3:00 p.m. This year the District Superintendent, the Rev. Dr. Simon Osunlana, is inviting the churches to bring their whole congregation.
The United Women in Faith invites you to join them November 15 to 18, 2024 for their next getaway! Please see flyer at the end of the bulletin for details
Our member Roland Abel is available to help you with details surrounding the voting process. Please access his knowledge if you need help.
Here are some things to make sure you make your mark on history as you vote in this election:
• Today, check or update your voter status or register at @TurboVote.org
• after Sept. 15 download your sample ballot to begin research on candidates and ballot issues
• Oct. 7 is your deadline to register to vote in Florida
• Oct. 24 is the deadline to request a vote by mail in ballot
• early voting is Oct. 21 to Nov. 3
• voting in your assigned precinct in-person is on Nov. 5 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Mission Offering today is for Good Samaritan Fund
Next Sunday our Mission Offering goes to Apportionments
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 of Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-23
CHILDREN’S TIME
Commission Bold Justice Team Members in preparation for the House Meetings. All are welcome to attend one of the House Meetings in the church.
*HYMN 550 Christ, From Whom All Blessings Flow+
1 Christ, from whom all blessings flow, perfecting the saints below,
Hear us, who thy nature share, who thy mystic body are.
2 Join us, in one spirit join, let us still receive of thine;
Still for more on thee we call, thou who fillest all in all.
3 Move and actuate and guide, diverse gifts to each divide;
Placed according to thy will, let us all Thy work fulfill.
4 Never from thy service move, needful to each other prove;
Use the grace on each bestowed, tempered by the art of God.
5 Many are we now, and one, we who Jesus have put on;
There is neither bond nor free, male nor female, Lord, in thee.
6 Love, like death, hath all destroyed, rendered all distinctions void;
Names and sects and parties fall; Thou O Christ, art all in all.
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1740 MUSIC: Adapt. from Orlando Gibbons, 1623 set tune: Canterbury
RECEPTION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
Please pass the offering bags along each row at the direction of the ushers. Instructions for giving online, by check or text are in the section after the Order of Service.
The Mission Offering today is for Good Samaritan Fund
Next Sunday our Mission Offering goes to Apportionment
Prayer of Dedication
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
HYMN 191 Jesus Loves Me This I Know+
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 435 O God of Every Nation+
1 O God of every nation, of every race and land,
Redeem the whole creation with your almighty hand.
Where hate and fear divide us, and bitter threats are hurled,
In love and mercy guide us, and heal our strifetorn world.
2 From search for wealth and power and scorn of truth and right,
From trust in bombs that shower destruction through the night,
From pride of race and station and blindness to your way,
Deliver every nation, eternal God, we pray.
3. Lord, strengthen those who labor that all may find release
From fear of rattling saber, from dread of war’s increase;
When hope and courage falter, Lord let your voice be heard;
With faith that none can alter, your servants undergird.
4. Keep bright in us the vision of days when war shall cease,
When hatred and division give way to love and peace,
Till dawns the morning glorious when truth and justice reign
And Christ shall rule victorious o’er all the world’s domain.
WORDS: William W. Reid, Jr. 1958 MUSIC: Welsh hymn melody; harm. by David Evans, 1927
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 What are you having? Pastor David Range
HYMN OF PREPARATION 617 I Come with Joy+
1 I come with joy to meet my Lord, forgiven, loved and free,
in awe and wonder to recall his life laid down for me,
his life laid down for me.
2 I come with Christians far and near to find, as all are fed,
the new community of love in Christ’s communion bread,
in Christ’s communion bread.
3 As Christ breaks bread and bids us share, each proud division ends.
The love that made us makes us one, and strangers now are friends,
and strangers now are friends.
4 And thus with joy we meet our Lord.
His presence, always near, is in such friendship better known;
we see, and praise him here,
we see, and praise him here.
5 Together met, together bound, we’ll go our different ways,
and as his people in the world, we’ll live and speak his praise,
we’ll live and speak his praise.
WORDS: Brian Wren, 1968 MUSIC: The Southern Harmony, 1835; harm. by Charles H. Webb, 1987
HOLY COMMUNION
The Great Thanksgiving for the Season after Pentecost
The Lord be with you. And also with you.
Lift up your hearts. We lift them up to the Lord.
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give our thanks and praise.
It is right, and a good and joyful thing,
always and everywhere to give thanks to you,
Father Almighty, 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,
and spoke to us through your prophets, who looked for that day
when justice shall roll down like waters
and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,
when nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war anymore.
And so, with your people on earth and all the company of heaven
we praise your name and join their unending hymn:
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.
Holy are you, and blessed is your Son Jesus Christ.
Your Spirit anointed him to preach good news to the poor,
to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind,
to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
and to announce that the time had come
when you would save your people.
He healed the sick, fed the hungry, and ate with sinners.
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.
At his ascension you exalted him
to sit and reign with you at your right hand.
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."
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.
Christ has died; Christ is risen; Christ will come again.
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 in final victory, 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.
Amen
Hymns to be sung during Communion
As we are gathered Jesus is here
As we are gathered Jesus is here;
One with each other, Jesus is here.
Joined by the Spirit, washed in the blood,
Part of the body, the Church of God.
As we are gathered Jesus is here,
One with each other, Jesus is here.
He is Lord
He is Lord, He is Lord!
He is risen from the dead and he is Lord!
Every knee shall bow, every tongue confess
That Jesus Christ is Lord.
Jesus, take me as I am
Jesus, take me as I am, I can come no other way.
Take me deeper into You. Make my flesh life melt away.
Make me like a precious stone, crystal clear and finely honed,
Life of Jesus shining through giving glory back to You.
In my life, Lord, be glorified
In my life Lord, be glorified, be glorified;
In my life Lord, be glorified today.
In your church, Lord, be glorified, be glorified;
In your church, Lord, be glorified today.
Emmanuel, Emmanuel
Emmanuel, Emmanuel, His name is called Emmanuel.
God with us, revealed in us, His name is called Emmanuel.
How good is the God we adore
1 How good is the God we adore! our faithful, unchangeable friend;
His love is as great as His power, and knows neither measure nor end.
2 For Christ is the First and the Last; His Spirit will guide us safe home:
we’ll praise Him for all that is past, and trust Him for all that’s to come.
Praise the name of Jesus
Praise the name of Jesus, praise the name of Jesus,
He’s my rock, he’s my fortress,
He’s my deliverer, in him will I trust;
Praise the name of Jesus.
Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me
Let the beauty of Jesus be seen in me,
All his wondrous compassion and purity,
O thou Spirit divine, all my nature refine,
Till the beauty of Jesus be seen in me.
HYMN OF SENDING FORTH 438 Forth in Thy Name+
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 in-most substance see,
and labor on at thy command, and offer all my works to thee.
4. For thee delightfully employ what e'er thy bounteous grace hath given;
and run my course with even joy, and closely walk with thee to heaven.
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1749 MUSIC: John Hatton, 1793
BENEDICTION
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We give God thanks for this opportunity to worship together in-person in our sanctuary as well as online. Wearing your mask is optional as the Covid virus, although still present, is no longer a healthcare emergency. Please continue to get your booster shots as they become available. We are always happy (and look forward) to have you join us in the sanctuary, but for those who would like to continue to participate from home, we will continue to live stream the services on X.com (formerly Twitter) and youtube.com.
To join us on youtube.com simply type Miramar UMC in the search bar 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 X.com (formerly known as 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 x.com 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 Error! Filename not specified. 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 for the link.
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
