3/1/2026 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.
 
*UPCOMING – THIS SATURDAY (3/7) - CRAWFISH BOIL (hosted by the Park's) at church Gymnasium Cafeteria 4:30pm - *Sign-up in the appropriate social media polls by TODAY Sunday (3/1) if you plan to attend! *We are also in need of desserts. Deacon Chong & Elder Patrick will assign attendees to fulfill this ministry with the appropriate dessert needs - please support and help them. Thank you!
 
*CONTINUING THIS WEEK – LENTEN SEASON – WEEK 3 “Here I Am” A Lenten Journey of Obedience –  “The Way of the Cross” – 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 this online article on the importance of fasting:  https://www.intouch.org/read/articles/how-to-start-fasting-and-actually-keep-it-up. Let us hunger for more of Jesus as Easter 2026 arrives, Amen? Amen.
 
*TODAY – SUNDAY (3/1) – DESSERT MINISTRY + MARCH BIRTHDAY CAKE CELEBRATIONS - *Enjoy during-lunch as we serve and bless both our Bethany & Hosanna families in Christ. *Happy March birthday’s: Chester Chung (3/5); Noa Krief (3/11)

*UPCOMING – NEXT SUNDAY (3/8) – “SPRING FORWARD” DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME - *Early Sunday morning, 2:00am will change to 3:00am. Clocks will move forward one hour.

 
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on week 3 of this Lenten season.
 
Scripture:
 
And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. (LUKE 9:23)
 
Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple… So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple. (LUKE 14:27; LUKE 14:33)
 
And he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised. (2 CORINTHIANS 5:15)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You week 3 of this holy Lenten season as we approach Easter 2026. As we follow the devotional theme “The Way of the Cross” this week, draw us closer to the ways of Jesus as He joyfully and obediently bore all of our sins in His body on the cross. Give us a clear vision of our cross – the posture of self-denial, the place of self-death to our worldly desires, ambitions, and sinful addictions. Challenge us in our fasting and praying if we are truly following after our Lord Jesus with the weight of our cross daily on our shoulders. For whoever does not bear his own cross and come after You cannot be Your disciple. For anyone who does not renounce all that he or she has cannot be Your disciple. Crucify us again with Christ, so that we no longer live, but only Christ who lives in and through us. Crucify us with Christ so that we might no longer live for ourselves, but for Him who for our sake died and was raised. Confirm in us through this Lenten season that Christ is truly there by the weight of our cross truly bearing down upon our shoulders, counting the cost, going the way of the cross as a true follower of Jesus Christ. Bless our worship today with the exaltation of Your Word in preaching and obeying. Bless our breakout discussions during-lunch with Spirit-filled reflections on it. Bless our breaking of bread, and the dessert ministries and celebrations of March birthdays. Bless this Saturday’s Crawfish boil at the radical generosity of Your servants, Deacon Juhae & Hoon. For all who come, fill not only their stomachs with food, but their souls and hearts with Your radical generosity to go and do the same for each other as the Park’s have shown. As we move forward an hour next Sunday, let us not think an hour is lost, but be alert for the hour of Christ’s return, causing us to live in greater watchfulness and fervency to holiness. Through our Lord of all hours and of all time, Jesus Christ who is the same yesterday, today, and forever, Amen & amen.