10/5/2025 Presider Announcements

*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.
 
*FALL RETREAT STARTS BEGINS THIS FRIDAY (10/10)!!!! – Arrive and check-in at 4:30pm, 8786 County Road 167 McKinney, TX 75071! Dinner (delicious spaghetti, ground beef tomato sauce, garlic bread, pickles, onions, salad, and dessert) will start promptly at 5:45pm. Worship will begin promptly at 6:45pm. We hope to see everyone there! Please inform the Deacons in-person if you need a ride or if you are coming but have not registered. *If you haven't already, please zelle the retreat fee to the hosanna email: [email protected] with a note/comment “retreat fee.” $60 per adult/$30 per child. $30 per staff/$10 per child of staff. *Let's also give honor to our special guest preacher, Rev. Brian Hsieh from Collin County Chinese Fellowship English Ministry, who will be preaching for us throughout, including next Sunday. Please pray for him and express your gratitude to him. Let us honor Rev. Hsieh with our attendance and attention, for the Word of God he has prepared for us to consume.

*TODAY: SUNDAY (10/5) - THANK YOU TO SPECIAL GUEST WORSHIP PRAISE LEADER brother Vincent Li – In view of our Worship Minister Chao on break, Worship leader Vincent Li has come to bless us. Thank you for leading us into God's presence!

*TODAY: SUNDAY (10/5) - DESSERT MINISTRY - Enjoy our monthly dessert ministry during lunch with a variety of cookies, brownies, and pastries. Thank you to the Deacons for serving us!

*THIS WEDNESDAY (10/8) ONLINE ORDAINED OFFICERS GATHERING for RETREAT PREP - 8:00pm through Messenger Video Chat. The ordained leadership will gather for a final retreat prep meeting.


*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on 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 lift up to You again our very first retreat as a Hosanna Church family. Thank You for each one You have called, to make 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. We pray for Your servant, Reverend Brian Hsieh from Collin County Chinese Fellowship English Ministry. Illuminate his mind with insight into Your message that You desire to speak to our congregation. Fill his heart with Your affections to love our congregation with the faithful teaching and preaching of Your Word. Flow Your power through him as he delivers Your instructions to us. Heavenly Father, lift up our eyes to You into this third year of life as Hosanna Church under the leadership of our new ordained team. Guard them with Your Spirit! Make them one in Your Son! – Elder Nara, Elder Patrick, Deacon Jonathan, Deacon Juhae, Deacon Chong, Deacon Waywah, Deacon Gloria! 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.