2/22/2026 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. Suyoung 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.

*CONTINUING THIS WEEK – LENTEN SEASON – WEEK 2 “Here I Am” A Lenten Journey of Obedience –  “Hearing God’s Call” – Use the Lent guide from our denomination ECO: eco-pres.org/lent. These are the 40 days prior to Easter on April 4/5. Let us all learn to fast (from food, from addicted sins, from leisure, from entertainment, from daily routines, from spending/money, etc.) & pray... realigning our hungering desires upon Christ through fasting. Read the online article available on the QR code in your bulletins for the expanded announcements on the importance of fasting:  https://www.intouch.org/read/articles/how-to-start-fasting-and-actually-keep-it-up.

*TODAY – SUNDAY (2/22) 1:00pm SESSION/ELDER BOARD gathering – Pray and continue to support our honored Elders as they guide and govern the church.

*UPCOMING – THIS SATURDAY (2/28) - 4:30pm AGAPE young adults & families life group gathering - *Continuing lessons on the letter to the Ephesians, led by co-shepherds Elder Nara/Deacon Jonathan. Join us!

*UPCOMING – IN TWO WEEKS - SATURDAY (3/7) - CRAWFISH BOIL (hosted by the Park's) at church foyer/Ezra Chapel 4:30pm - *Sign-up in the appropriate social media polls by next Sunday (3/1) if you plan to attend!

*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on week 2 of this Lenten season.
 
Scripture:
 
Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” (MATTHEW 4:1-4)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You this holy Lenten season as we approach Easter 2026. Help us hunger again, starving our sinful flesh and hungering after Your only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Let this Easter not pass us by again, but draw us into this holy time of fasting and prayer for forty days, just as Christ went through for us in the wilderness. Lead us by Your Spirit into our wilderness, not to be overcome with temptation but be overcomers of all temptation by the devil, because Jesus has overcome for us. Help us not live by loaves of bread alone, or what feeds our temporal appetites in the world. We do not follow You just to have our stomachs filled. Keep us hungry for Christ. Keep us needy for Jesus. We shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from Your mouth, O God, the living bread of life in which we eat and will never go hungry again. Help us to seek that eternal life-giving bread, Jesus Christ, who died and rose and lives to intercede for us at Your right hand. Father God, bless all the fasting & praying this 2nd week of lent. Bless our sister Miki’s birthday today with joy and overflowing thanks to You as her Creator and Redeemer. Bless our breakout discussion groups with Scripture-centered discussions and testimonies. Bless the breaking of bread at lunch, and the elders gathering this afternoon. Bless the birthdays of our dear brother Daniel Jang in Waco tomorrow, and our sister Stella on Friday. Keep growing them into a mighty man and woman for You. Bless the AGAPE life group this Saturday, and our dessert ministry next Sunday, with all the March birthday celebrations with cake. Thank You for blessing the shower of Baby Gee, the blessing of many more pregnancies in our midst. Thank You for protecting all our Hosanna children especially in Your merciful arms. In the name of the Author of life and faith who holds us in His hand, our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, Amen & amen.