Pastor: David Range
August 30, 2026
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 for
August 30, 2026, 10:00 a.m. Joint Fifth Sunday service
and Celebration of Miramar UMC's 66th Anniversary
Please see the end of the bulletin for some additional important information
CALL TO WORSHIP
*ANNIVERSARY HYMN to the tune of “The Church’s One Foundation+
1. Our founders’ first foundation was Jesus Christ their Lord,
He was their inspiration by action and by Word.
To Him they prayed and asked Him to be their holy guide
And sought to witness for Him throughout our city wide.
2. It was in nineteen-sixty they built our church with love,
With faithful dedication and trust in God above,
Then filled the years with service to God and fellowman;
May Jesus’ Spirit stir us to keep our forebears’ plan.
3. We honor those trailblazers who built on solid ground
Casting aside all rising fears, with faith that they had found.
We all revere the preachers, the choirs, and the trustees,
The teachers, and the dreamers who’ve shared our victories.
4. Then came the Holy Spirit descending from above,
Redeeming souls of many, filling their hearts with love,
Responding to the challenge that all the world be won,
We pledge our lives in service, to God the Three in One.
5. We are the congregation of Miramar’s own church
With Methodist devotion we dedicate our search
To find His will and favor, to combat what is wrong,
And keep His love the power that makes us ever strong.
WORDS: Jack Gallagher MUSIC: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1864
PRAYER
*PRAISE AND WORSHIP
Bless the name of Jesus (Sing twice)
Bless the name of Jesus
Praise the name of Jesus
Sing unto the King of Israel
Bless the name of Jesus
Praise the name of Jesus
Sing unto the King of Israel
And I sing glory, glory
Glory to His name forever
Glory, glory
Glory to His name
Blessed be the name of the Lord (Sing once)
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Blessed be the name of the Lord Most High!
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Blessed be the name of the Lord,
Blessed be the name of the Lord Most High!
The name of the Lord is a strong tower,
The righteous run into it, and they are saved.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower,
The righteous run into it, and they are saved.
Glory to the name of the Lord,
Glory to the name of the Lord,
Glory to the name of the Lord Most High!
Glory to the name of the Lord,
Glory to the name of the Lord,
Glory to the name of the Lord Most High!
The name of the Lord is a strong tower,
The righteous run into it, and they are saved.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower,
The righteous run into it, and they are saved.
Holy is the name of the Lord,
Holy is the name of the Lord,
Holy is the name of the Lord Most High!
Holy is the name of the Lord,
Holy is the name of the Lord,
Holy is the name of the Lord Most High!
The name of the Lord is a strong tower,
The righteous run into it, and they are saved.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower,
The righteous run into it, and they are saved.
Awesome God (Sing twice)
Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, power, and love
Our God is an awesome God
As the Deer Pants
1 As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs after You,
You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship You.
You alone are my strength my shield, to You alone may my spirit yield,
You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship You.
2 I want you more than gold or silver, only you can satisfy,
You alone are the real joy-giver, and the apple of my eye.
You alone are my strength my shield, to You alone may my spirit yield,
You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship You.
3 You're my friend and You are my Brother, even though You are a King,
I love You more than any other, so much more than anything.
You alone are my strength my shield, to You alone may my spirit yield,
You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship You.
WELCOME: Visitors, you are invited to stand and introduce yourself or be introduced by a friend. Please receive the information card that the usher offers and when you have filled it in please return it to the usher
Birthdays and Anniversaries
ANNOUNCEMENTS—CALL TO ACTION
TODAY: Worship Service at 10:00 a.m. to celebrate our 66th anniversary. Please consider making a special contribution in the marked envelope in the pew pockets.
TONIGHT: Church Prayer meeting at 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Staff Parish Relations Committee 7:30 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: Tuesday is not a delivery of food from Farm Share but for September the deliveries will be on the 8th and 22nd with distributions on Thursdays the 10th and 24th. Foodies please take note of the changes
THURSDAY: First Choir practice after summer, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Please enter the church by the south entrance, near Pastor David’s office any time there is a practice or other meeting. We invite new people to join our choir. If you are interested just come to practice or talk to our church music director Helen Whitehorn
NEXT SUNDAY: Worship Services with a service of Holy Communion.
The United Methodist Men’s fellowship meeting starts in the fellowship hall shortly after the 11:00 a.m. service ends. Please see President Audley Codner, Vice President Roland Abel, Secretary Dennis Bent, and Treasurer Willard Kennedy. All men are welcome to drop in.
Also, next Sunday will be the commissioning of our Team Leaders for BOLD Justice, Broward Organized Leaders Doing Justice as we prepare for the House Meetings. We are a grassroots organization that helps change the systems that lead to injustice and we are working on affordable housing and dangerous travel stops. All are invited to one of four house meetings whether you live in Broward or any other county.
In addition, there will be a Pastor Appreciation fundraising Soup Sale, after each service
Looking ahead
September 4 to 11, Book Fair in the preschool entrance hall. Please buy a book for a child you know, or one in the preschool, or leave a donation as we try to excite our children about reading.
TUESDAY September 8: Preschool Board meeting at 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, September 11: Children’s Club starts back after our summer break. This is for elementary school age and younger and you come in the south entrance from the parking lot and the meeting is from 7:00 p.m. (or whenever you can get there) until 8:30 p.m. Please see leaders Pascale Delisma-Pierre or Lydie Cherilus.
On behalf of the Conference Board of Laity, we are excited to invite you to our Virtual Fall Laity Gathering on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The gathering is open to all lay people, but we are especially encouraging Local Lay Leaders to attend.
There is no cost to participate. Register today using tthis link: Meeting Registration-Zoom
Or click on this link or ask Judith Pierre-Okerson for help to register https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Y1SAMkLiQqK5DFqYIjTQLw#/registration
SATURDAY, September 12 Youth Group begins for those in middle and high school from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Please enter by the south entrance. Leaders are Allison Feurtado and Phyllis Abel.
SUNDAY: September 13 after each service in the pastor’s office is a New Member Session for those seeking to transfer or otherwise commit to the membership of our church. It is a time of sharing and learning about the life of the church and each person’s place in it. Please see Pastor David for more details.
MONDAY September 14 Trustees meet at 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY September 15 Clover Williams Dussard’s Bold Justice house meeting, 7:00 p.m.
Joyce Hemmans’ house meeting 7:00 p.m.
Finance Committee 7:00 p.m.
MONDAY September 21 Admin/Church Council 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, September 22 Vinessa Edwards’ Bold Justice house meeting 7:00 p.m.
MONDAY September 28 Roland Abel’s Bold Justice House meeting 7:00
The Preschool can now offer a Step Up for Students scholarship to those who complete the application process. Please see director Marleni Brant-Pomare or her staff or call 954 981 9269 and let other people know about our excellent preschool and the many opportunities that it provides for an early boost to a child’s life.
Upper Room Daily Devotional guides are available. Please donate a dollar in the birdhouse for each one you take.
The Mission Offering today is for Residing Hope
Next Sunday our Mission Offering goes to Good Samaritan Fund
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”
RESPONSIVE READING 777 (Psalm 42)
As the deer longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for you, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually, “Where is thy God?”
These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God: whom again I shall praise, my help and my God.
My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan, and of Hermon, from mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the thunder of your cataracts; all your billows have gone over me.
By day the Lord commands his steadfast love; and at night God’s song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
I say to God, my rock: “Why have you forgotten me? Why do I mourn because of the oppression of the enemy?”
Like a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me;
they say to me continually, “Where is your God?
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God: whom again I shall praise, my help and my God.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;
as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,
world without end. Amen. Amen
SCRIPTURE: Acts 2:42-47
CHILDREN’S TIME
*HYMN 173 Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies+
1 Christ, whose glory fills the skies, Christ, the true, the only light,
Sun of Righteousness, arise, triumph o'er the shades of night;
Dayspring from on high, be near; Daystar, in my heart appear.
2. Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee;
joyless is the day's return, till thy mercy's beams I see;
till they inward light impart, cheer my eyes and warm my heart.
3. Visit then this soul of mine; pierce the gloom of sin and grief;
fill me, Radiancy divine; scatter all my unbelief;
more and more thyself display, shining to the perfect day.
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1740 MUSIC: J.G. Werner’s Choralbuch, 1815; harm. by William H Havergal, 1861
*HYMN 501 O Thou Who Camest from Above
1. O Thou who camest from above,
the pure celestial fire to impart
kindle a flame of sacred love
upon the mean altar of my heart.
2. There let it for thy glory burn
with inextinguishable blaze,
and trembling to its source return,
in humble prayer and fervent praise.
3. Jesus, confirm my heart's desire
to work and speak and think for thee;
still let me guard the holy fire,
and still stir up thy gift in me.
4. Ready for all thy perfect will,
my acts of faith and love repeat,
till death thy endless mercies seal,
and make my sacrifice complete.
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1762 MUSIC: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1872
RECEPTION OF TITHES AND OFFERINGS
Please pass the offering bags along each row at the direction of the ushers. See below for other, very convenient ways to give.
WAYS TO GIVE
1. Click the ‘Donate’ icon on http://www.miramarumc.org
And follow the prompts
2. Text 833-931-1791. And follow the prompts
3. You may also donate with cash or check to MUMC
4. Donate by using Zelle to mirumeth@gmail.com
5. Use our QR code
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
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.
TIME OF SHARING JOYS & CONCERNS
(please email miramarpastor@gmail.com)
PRAYER HYMN 479 Jesus, Lover of My Soul+
1. Jesus, lover of my soul,
let me to thy bosom fly,
while the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high.
Hide me, O my Savior, hide,
till the storm of life is past;
safe into the haven guide;
O receive my soul at last.
2 Other refuge have I none,
hangs my helpless soul on thee;
leave, ah! leave me not alone,
still support and comfort me.
All my trust on thee is stayed,
all my help from thee I bring;
cover my defenseless head
with the shadow of thy wing.
3. Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
more than all in thee I find;
raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick, and lead the blind.
Just and holy is thy name,
I am all unrighteousness;
false and full of sin I am;
thou art full of truth and grace.
4. Plenteous grace with thee is found,
grace to cover all my sin;
let the healing streams abound,
make and keep me pure within.
Thou of life the fountain art,
freely let me take of thee;
spring thou up within my heart;
rise to all eternity.
WORDS: Charles Wesley, 1740 MUSIC: Joseph Parry, 1879
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 The Altogether Soul, the Altogether Church Pastor David Range
*HYMN OF SENDING FORTH 731 Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken+
1. Glorious things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
God, whose word cannot be broken,
formed thee for his own abode.
On the Rock of Ages founded,
what can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded,
thou mayst smile at all thy foes.
2. See, the streams of living waters,
springing from eternal love,
well supply thy sons and daughters,
and all fear of want remove.
Who can faint while such a river
ever will their thirst assuage?
Grace which like the Lord, the giver,
never fails from age to age.
3. Round each habitation hovering,
see the cloud and fire appear
for a glory and a covering,
showing that the Lord is near!
Thus deriving from our banner
light by night and shade by day,
safe we feed upon the manna
which God gives us when we pray.
4. Blest inhabitants of Zion,
washed in our Redeemer's blood;
Jesus, whom our souls rely on,
makes us monarchs, priests to God.
Us, by his great love, he raises,
rulers over self to reign,
and as priests his solemn praises
we for thankful offering bring.
WORDS: John Newton, 1779 MUSIC: Croatan Folk song; arr. by Franz Joseph Hayden, 1797
BENEDICTION
All music under ccli #24249
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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 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.
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
