10/19/2025 Presider Announcements

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*WELCOME to HOSANNA! – *Warmest welcome to all of you, especially if you are visiting or re-visiting! Please let our Welcoming Team give you our welcoming gift! Fill-out a yellow newcomer’s contact card so that we can keep in touch! We welcome you into this family of Christ’s loving arms and remain here for you as His body to grow and flourish together!
 
*DISMISSAL of children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Ministry and Youth Group to Bible study + Lunch! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to Minister Sewon Cho’s children’s ministry – please proceed to the children’s chapel down the hallway to the left! And youth group can head to your Bible study and lunch hour with Rev. Sooyoung Song. *Preschool worship children should already be in the preschool worship room with Director Rachel, and will continue to begin simultaneously at 10:30am in the preschool worship room.
 
*WHAT A BLESSED “LIFT UP YOUR EYES” FIRST FALL RETREAT! – Thank you for all those who came and sacrificially served in Christ.

*NEW COVENANT PARTNER – TIMOTHY SUNG! – Praise be to God for our newest covenant partner of the Lord’s Church! Embrace our brother and continue to pray for God’s mission through him, as he partners in covenant with Hosanna to expand the Kingdom of Christ here on earth, as it is in heaven. Thank you for your obedience to the Lord Jesus!

*CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX PROJECT – Bethany children’s ministry is doing their annual shoebox project to bless children around the world in need of necessities. Pickup a box in the Bethany lobby and fill appropriately. Collection of boxes remains open until 11/9.
 
*UPCOMING NOTICE IN 2 WEEKS: CONGREGATIONAL MEETING after-service (11/2) FINANCIAL UPDATE – The Session will hold a congregational gathering on 11/2 after-service to give an update on the 2025 budget, giving, expenses, and current state of Hosanna’s financial health. We humbly ask all Covenant Partners to do their due diligence in taking part in the gathering, asking any questions needed, receive the update and pray for the future financial health of Hosanna.
 
*TODAY – NEW OFFICERS ORIENTATION (part 1), 1:15pm-2pm at Corner Conference Room – Pray for our new officers as they gather for a two-week orientation.

*STAFF GATHERING - See Elder Patrick Liu, who will facilitate October's staff gathering for a recap of October ministry and preparation for November ministries. Pray for our honored staff!

*THIS SATURDAY (10/25) AGAPE families & young adults life group, 4:30pm-7:30pm at Ezra Chapel – Continuing studies into the Letter to the Ephesians led by co-shepherds, Elder Nara and Deacon Jonathan. Join us!

*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on the blessings of the 2025 “LIFT UP YOUR EYES” (John 4:35) HOSANNA FALL RETREAT.
 
Scripture:
 
Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. (JOHN 4:35)
 
The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward, for all the land that you see I will give to you and to your offspring forever. (GENESIS 13:14-15)
 
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. (PSALM 121:1-4)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we give thanks to You for granting us our very first retreat as a Hosanna Church family. Thank You for each one You have called, who made space for this sacred time, to retreat away from our daily tasks, our daily routines, to break free from our daily schedules, so that Your Spirit might make us one to be together and to seek Your face through Your Word. Lord Jesus, thank You for providing Reverend Brian Hsieh to preach to us Your message, illuminating our minds with the holy Spirit’s urging to look at You, repent before You, to exercise our servanthood with You, and to remember Your call upon our lives to follow after You. Whether we were there in body physically or in spirit prayerfully, heavenly Father, keep our eyes lifted to You and off of ourselves this third year of life as Hosanna Church under the leadership of our new ordained Elders and Deacons. The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are so few. So send us all, Lord, as Hosanna, into Your harvest field. Help us see now Your fields are white for harvest. Like You promised to Abram and likewise to us, lift up our eyes to look from where we are, to look and see the Kingdom where You long to give to us now and into eternity, that Kingdom coming upon this land in Carrollton and north Dallas and out to the nations. You have given this land of Your lost souls and precious sheep to be gathered into Your Church. You have given it to us and to our offspring after us forever. We do not lift up our eyes to the hills, but to You, O LORD the Creator of every hill, our Helper and Redeemer, who made heaven and earth. You will not let our foot be moved! You who keeps us will neither slumber nor sleep. Through the Lifter-Up of our eyes and souls, our Lord Jesus Christ’s Name, in this powerful new season of harvest for Your Hosanna Church we pray, Amen & amen.