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*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.  *CONGRATULATIONS TO REV. HYUN GOO KANG (Deacon Gloria’s father) as Bethany’s new Korean Toddlers/PreK Ministry Pastor! – We thank Rev. Kang for his constant humble example of Christ, serving our fall retreat and loving on our Hosanna children. Let’s pray his ministry with Bethany’s Korean toddlers/prek ministry will flourish and bring great glory to Christ!   *WHAT A BLESSED “LIFT UP YOUR EYES” FIRST FALL RETREAT! – Praise be to God for our very first retreat as Hosanna! Keep in memory the works of the holy Spirit! Keep lifting up your eyes to behold Christ and His great harvest that is ready for us right now! Go collect His spiritual fruits! *THANK YOU to the PARK’S for hosting fellowship yesterday & HAPPIEST 1ST BIRTHDAY TO IRENE – Thank you to the Park’s hospitality with their Waxahachie home. Sincerest happiest 1st birthday to our youngest Hosanna sister, Irene! *NEW COVENANT PARTNER – TIMOTHY SUNG! – Praise be to God for our newest covenant partner of the Lord’s Church! Embrace our brother and continue to pray for God’s mission through him, as he partners in covenant with Hosanna to expand the Kingdom of Christ here on earth, as it is in heaven. Thank you for your obedience to the Lord Jesus! *SPECIAL PRAYERS FOR THE VENTURA FAMILY – As stated last week, sister Jihoon fell while on the stairs in Korea and has injured her ankle, heel, and foot. Thankfully, God has answered by not requiring surgery for treatment, but her stay in Korea will be extended until December for her leg to heal. She is currently unable to walk or move. Pray for her and daughter Elena to return safely to the Dallas area with the Lord’s health and strength!  *CHRISTMAS SHOEBOX PROJECT – Bethany children’s ministry is doing their annual shoebox project to bless children around the world in need of necessities. Pickup a box in the Bethany lobby and fill appropriately. Collection of boxes remains open until 11/9. *UPCOMING NOTICE IN 2 WEEKS: CONGREGATIONAL MEETING after-service (11/2) FINANCIAL UPDATE – The Session will hold a congregational gathering on 11/2 after-service to give an update on the 2025 budget, giving, expenses, and current state of Hosanna’s financial health. We humbly ask all Covenant Partners to do their due diligence in taking part in the gathering, asking any questions needed, receive the update and pray for the future financial health of Hosanna. *TODAY – NEW OFFICERS ORIENTATION (part 1), 1:15pm-2pm at Corner Conference Room – Pray for our new officers as they gather for a two-week orientation. *THIS SATURDAY (10/25) AGAPE families & young adults life group, 4:30pm-7:30pm at Ezra Chapel – Continuing studies into the Letter to the Ephesians led by co-shepherds, Elder Nara and Deacon Jonathan. Join us! *ALL-CONGREGATION PRAYERS – As Scripture commands us, let us pray for one another, especially those who are sick/ill physically among us (JAMES 5:14-15; 3 JOHN 1:2) as well as special topics needing our attentive intercession.
*TODAY: SUNDAY (10/19) –
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –
 *TODAY’S PRAISE SONGS! – Practice them and be ready to sing this morning! Praise on, brothers and sisters! (1) The Saving One; (2) Thank You Jesus for the Blood; (3-response praise) Fairest Lord Jesus (verses 1 & 4) & The Cause of Christ *TODAY’S BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS after-service in the gymnasium cafeteria – Today, spend some time in your group tables (group# found in the note page of your bulletin) and share the life of the preached Word. Pre-read, think through, and share this spiritual food in discussion with one another! “Gather to be Scattered with Gospel Seeds Watered by Persecuted Blood” (ACTS 8:1-4) (1.) [v.1a] What was Saul doing while Deacon Stephen was being stoned to death? Later, did the apostle Paul come to repent of this (see 1 Corinthians 15:9)? How have you once approved what you really should have denied? In this verse, the word “approved” can also mean “to be pleased with and agree that it is good.” In Christ, how has sin that once pleased you now a source of displeasure? In Christ, how can worldly pleasures we once agreed were good become what we deny and depart from in the power of the holy Spirit? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) [v.1b-2] On the day that Deacon Stephen was executed, what arose against the church in Jerusalem (v.1b)? What happened to all the servants of God like Deacon Stephen (v.1b)? Although public lamentation/mourning was considered inappropriate for an executed individual (according to the rabbinic text called the Mishnah), what did “devout men” do with the body of Deacon Stephen (v.2)? How should living as a Christian become harder instead of easier, just as persecution increased instead of decreased in the days of Deacon Stephen? How did God use even great persecution against the Church to take the gospel beyond Jerusalem, fulfilling His promise from Acts 1:8? How is God’s mission always set on scattering with gospel seeds what we are equipped with in our gatherings as His Church? How ought we gather to further scatter gospel seeds? If we are the scattered gospel seeds, what must we do to bear much fruit through our seeds (see John 12:24)? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) [v.3-4] While the scattering of gospel seeds increased, what also increased through Saul (v.3; see also Acts 26:9-11)? Wherever the servants of God were scattered, what did they do (v.4)? How have we increased gathering while decreased scattering as His Church? How can we share the gospel where God has scattered us? [Korean translation] “핍박받는 피에 물을 받아 복음의 씨앗을 뿌려 흩어지기 위해 모여라” (사도행전 8:1-4) (1.) [1절 상] 스데반 집사가 돌에 맞아 죽는 동안 사울은 무엇을 하고 있었습니까? 후에 사도 바울은 이 일을 회개했습니까(고린도전서 15:9 참조)? 당신은 어떻게 과거에 부인해야 했던 것을 인정했습니까? 이 구절에서 “인정했다”라는 단어는 “기뻐하고 선하다고 동의하다”는 의미도 가질 수 있습니다. 그리스도 안에서, 한때 당신을 기쁘게 했던 죄가 어떻게 이제는 불쾌함의 원인이 되었습니까? 그리스도 안에서, 우리가 한때 선하다고 동의했던 세상적인 쾌락이 어떻게 성령의 능력 안에서 우리가 부인하고 떠나는 것이 될 수 있습니까? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) [1절하-2절] 스데반 집사가 처형되던 날, 예루살렘 교회에 무슨 일이 일어났습니까(1절하)? 스데반 집사와 같은 하나님의 모든 종들은 어떻게 되었습니까(1절하)? 처형당한 사람에게 공개적으로 애도하는 것은 부적절한 일로 여겨졌지만(랍비 경전인 미슈나에 따르면), "경건한 사람들"은 스데반 집사의 시신을 어떻게 처리했습니까(2절)? 스데반 집사 시대에 박해가 줄어들기보다는 오히려 늘어났듯이, 그리스도인으로서의 삶은 어떻게 더 쉬워지기보다는 더 어려워져야 합니까? 하나님께서는 어떻게 교회에 대한 큰 박해를 통해 복음을 예루살렘 너머로 전파하여 사도행전 1장 8절의 약속을 이루셨습니까? 하나님의 사명은 어떻게 우리가 그분의 교회로서 모인 모임에 복음의 씨앗을 뿌리는 데 항상 집중되어 있습니까? 우리는 어떻게 모여서 복음의 씨앗을 더 뿌려야 합니까? 우리가 흩어진 복음의 씨앗이라면, 우리 씨앗을 통해 많은 열매를 맺기 위해 무엇을 해야 할까요?(요한복음 12:24 참조) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) [3-4절] 복음의 씨앗이 흩어지는 일이 늘어나는 동안, 사울을 통해 무엇이 더욱 커졌습니까(3절; 사도행전 26:9-11 참조)? 하나님의 종들이 흩어진 곳마다 그들은 무엇을 했습니까(4절)? 우리는 그분의 교회로서 흩어지는 일을 줄이는 동시에 어떻게 모이는 일을 늘렸습니까? 하나님께서 우리를 흩으신 곳에서 우리는 어떻게 복음을 전할 수 있습니까? *UPCOMING (*notice some dates may have changed) –
*UPCOMING HAPPIEST BIRTHDAY TO YOU FROM OUR HOSANNA FAMILY! We celebrate you and love you in Christ so much! (*Let us know if we missed your birthday! We sincerely apologize) –
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on the blessings of 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 give thanks to You for granting us our very first retreat as a Hosanna Church family. Thank You for each one You have called, who made 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. Lord Jesus, thank You for providing Reverend Brian Hsieh to preach to us Your message, illuminating our minds with the holy Spirit’s urging to look at You, repent before You, to exercise our servanthood with You, and to remember Your call upon our lives to follow after You. Whether we were there in body physically or in spirit prayerfully, heavenly Father, keep our eyes lifted to You and off of ourselves this third year of life as Hosanna Church under the leadership of our new ordained Elders and Deacons. 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.
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