8/3/2025 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.

*THANK YOU FOR ALL THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2025-‘2 CLASS OF ORDAINED OFFICERS! – Sincerest thanks to all those who prayerfully nominated potential candidates to office. The nomination period is now closed. Your nomination should have been verified with an email from [email protected]. If you did no receive a verification email, this means your nomination was not submitted properly and the Session is unaware of it. If this is the case, email [email protected] re-informing of your nominee, or reach out to any of the Elders about it. Thank you!

*TODAY: SUNDAY (8/3): *DESSERTS MINISTRY (during lunch) – Cake & Watermelon. In view of the Gee family birthdays today and yesterday, they are serving cake and watermelon for dessert ministry. Enjoy & bless them with a birthday prayer!

*TODAY: SUNDAY (8/3): *12:00pm after-service BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS at Gymnasium Cafeteria (group# at end of bulletin notepage. Let us do our best to participate!)
 
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK: 8/9 (Sat-Sun) KITCHEN MINISTRY, 9:30am food prep & 12:40pm dishwash. Servants needed! See Elder Heather to volunteer.

*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK: 8/9 (Sat) AGAPE life group, 4:30pm-7:30pm at Ezra Chapel, will continue their study into Psalm 119.

*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK: 8/10 (Sun) BACK-TO-SCHOOL BLESSING FOR CHILDREN & STUDENTS. There will be special gifts and a time to bless all the children, youth, and college going back to school, before dismissal time during worship. Parents, make sure to begin worship together with all your children and youth students!

 
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on the 2025-’26 Ordained Spiritual Leadership.
 
Scripture:
 
For who is the greater, one who reclines at table or one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at table? But I am among you as the one who serves. (LUKE 22:27)
 
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. (GALATIANS 5:13)
 
Submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ. (EPHESIANS 5:21)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You once again this sacred season of raising Your next ordained servants in to Your offices of Elder and Deacon for the 2025-’26 year of our Lord Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, thank You for guiding all those who casted a nomination, prayed and fasted for a potential candidate to office. We acknowledge it was You, Holy Spirit, who gave notification of a name, of a face, of a memory and moment of Christ-exuding character and conduct inspiring to meet the above-reproach qualifications to these blessed offices of Your Church. Lord Jesus, we acknowledge You are the Master, Shepherd, and Head of this particular Church, and You will choose through us those You desire to advance Your Kingdom work through Your Church for this appointed time. We thank You in advance that You have already chosen and called and equipped these Elders and Deacons for this next season. As You declared, Lord Jesus, you came among us as the one who serves tables instead of reclines at one. May these next servants be great because they are last. May they not use their freedom and authority to serve as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another in humility, compassion, and gentleness. May we, as both lay and ordained servants like, learn to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ and flourish Your peace in all circumstances, for we are all one in You and for Your Cause. Through our Suffering Servant and Chief Shepherd, Overseer, and lead example of eldership and deaconship, Jesus Christ we pray, Amen & amen.