3/22/2026 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.
 
*WEEKLY SUNDAY PRE-SERVICE 9:30AM BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP in the Office Café! – Come early and enjoy some croissants, coffee, and tea weekly on Sunday starting 9:30am on the Office Café table. Enjoy!
 
*CONTINUING THIS WEEK – LENTEN SEASON – WEEK 6 “Here I Am” A Lenten Journey of Obedience –  “Watching and Waiting” – 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.
 
*UPCOMING – THIS SATURDAY (3/28) - 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!
 
*OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE: SERVANTS NEEDED – On Easter Sunday 4/5, we are in need of servants to be present pre-worship starting 9:00am and post-worship at 11:45am to help our Korean ministry leaders setup the "Oh Happy Day" fellowship & festivities-activities. *Consider helping this labor of love and sign-up with the Deacons by next Sunday (3/29).
 
*OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE: SERVANTS NEEDED – *2026 VBS "Rainforest Falls: Exploring the Nature of God" is almost here (6/4 Thursday - 6/7 Sunday)! There is a great need for servants to be crew leaders/facilitators/teachers to serve the harvest of children. *Consider helping and sign-up with the Deacons by 4/12.
 
*BEGINNING 4/4 (SATURDAY) TABLES/CHAIRS SETUP & SUNDAY CLEANUP – Our Korean ministry leaders have assigned us the month of April to setup and cleanup the breaking of bread ministry. A schedule will be created for all congregants to serve together in this great monthly task where all hands are needed! In this small way of service, let us show our appreciation to the Korean ministry leaders who serve us weekly on Sunday with the breaking of bread ministry.
 
*4/5 EASTER JOINT WORSHIP with children/youth & HOLY COMMUNION – On Easter Sunday, we will all partake of our Lord's Communion Table together. *Spend time with your families prior to Easter to prepare your heart and life with godly self-examination and repentance prior to partaking of Holy Communion.
 

*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on week 5 of this Lenten season devotional theme, “Watching and Waiting”
 
Scripture:
 
And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, “So, could you not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” (MATTHEW 26:40-41)
 
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. (ISAIAH 40:31)
 
Cast all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world. And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. (1 PETER 5:7-10)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, as we enter the 6th week of this holy Lenten season prior to the final Passion Week, show us what it means to be “Watching and Waiting” for Jesus Christ, on drawing nearer to the first coming and anticipating with blessed hope of the second coming of Your only Son. He has come to die and rise again, and He will come again with the clouds, with every eye seeing Him, as the First and the Last, who is, who was, and who is to come, our almighty Savior and Lord. Strengthen us to watch and pray instead of relax and sleep. May our prayerful dependence on Jesus keep us from entering independently into all temptation. Our spirit is indeed willing, but our flesh is so weak. By the power of prayer, keep our anxieties cast upon You and Your care for us. Sober our minds and keep our eyes watchful as the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking to devour. Strengthen us to resist the devil by being firm in faith, knowing the same kinds of sufferings are being experienced by our brotherhood and sisterhood at Hosanna and the global Church around the world. For after we suffer a little while on earth, You Yourself will restore us, confirm us, strengthen us, and establish us by Your grace and glory in Your only Son. So Lord, we wait upon You! As we wait, our strength is renewed upon You! Let us mount up with wings like eagles, run and not be weary, walk and not faint, for Your strength will arise within us! Bless our fasting and prayer this week and prepare us for Palm Sunday next week. Bless our breakfast fellowship with many to come earlier and on-time to service. Bless our breakout discussions during lunch with fruitful reflections on Your Word. Bless the Agape life gathering this Saturday with the holy truths of Ephesians. Fill all the needs for servants to serve You on Easter and VBS and the approaching April tables/chairs setup ministry. Bless all the students on spring break with renewed rest and strength. Bless all the precious life growing in the womb among us and Your creation sister Selene in nurture and growth. We watch and wait for You at all times, risen Lord Jesus Christ, Amen & Amen.