11/17/2024 Sunday Announcements

1. *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 of a t-shirt and beige multi-purpose bag! 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!
2. *DISMISSAL (children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Chapel with Minister Sunny! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to Pastor Sunny’s children’s ministry – please proceed to the children’s chapel down the hallway to the left! *Preschool worship children should already be in the preschool worship room with Director Rachel and assistant Ashley, and will continue to begin simultaneously at 10:40am in the preschool worship room.
3. *THANKSGIVING POTLUCK FELLOWSHIP sign-up! – Our Thanksgiving Potluck is fast-approaching in two weeks on Saturday (11/30), 6:00pm, in Ezra Chapel and foyer hallway. Sign-ups for potluck items so we do not double or triple the same items! Sign-up here – https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16d3HMKUZQzLutaePaZg5VKHowU_uKNVsdtvMwq9geEM/edit?gid=0#gid=0. See Deacon Gloria if you need help accessing the sign-up sheet. Let’s have a joyful and blessed feast together, giving thanks to the LORD for one another!
4. *BAPTISM/CONFIRMATION of faith – If you or your child are in need of baptism or confirmation of faith (for those who have been baptized in infancy/early childhood), see Pastor Chester. We encourage the baptism of children and confirmation for those baptized as children who have not had opportunity to profess their faith in Christ. Thank you.
5. *TODAY – (1) BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUP continue after-service! – Look at the number at the bottom of the message note page, and gather after-service with your same number. Let us share the life of God’s Word with each other!; (2) STAFF MEETING – 1:15pm @ Corner Conference Room. Pray for and support our honorable staff members!
6. *THIS FRIDAY (11/22) AGAPE Life Group, 6:30pm @ dinner location TBA, 7:30pm discussion @ Corner Conference Room – The young adult AGAPE life group will be gathering for a meal and a time to share life around “The Letter to the Philippians” led by Elder Patrick Liu.
7. *NEXT SUNDAY (11/24) – (1) THANKSGIVING FAMILY WORSHIP & COMMUNION – Parents, sit with your children and worship together (there will be no BCM children’s ministry). All are invited to our Lord’s Table for communion (from infancy to adulthood) in communion – come to Jesus through His Table and let us take of His forgiveness and bread together. No requirement to participate, but just a sincere heart to come to Christ and bring your children to Him too. For children and adults who have yet to be baptized and/or confirmed and a registered covenant partner of a local church community, we encourage participants of communion to do so in earnest as a loving act of obedience to Jesus’ invitation to His Table; (2) SESSION MEETING, 1:15pm @ Corner Conference Room.
8. *KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom Expansion Prayer will focus on the fellowship of Hosanna sisterhood in Christ’s love.

 
Scripture:
 
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates. (PROVERBS 31:30-31)
 
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae, that you may welcome her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever she may need from you, for she has been a patron of many and of myself as well. (ROMANS 16:1-2)
 
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. (1 PETER 3:3-4)
 
Prayer (written by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You our beloved Hosanna sisterhood in Christ Your eternal Son. Charm is deceitful, and worldly beauty ends in vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised! So let all the brothers praise You for them – our sisters who tremble before Your Word and live in wise holy fear before You. Give them the fruit of their hands, and let their holy works praise You in the gates of Your presence with a thankful heart. We commend them prayerfully to you, as Deacon Phoebe was commended before Your church at Rome – Deacon Phoebe from the church at Cenchreae whom You chose to take Your servant Paul’s letter to the church at Rome, to read it before the congregation and to teach its deep truths before them. As done for Deacon Phoebe or Priscilla or Junia or Mary, let us welcome our sisters in the Lord in a way worthy of all the ministry they are called to serve and lead. Let the brothers learn to mutually submit to them as unto You. Let the attraction of our sisters be not in external things – the braiding of hair or jewelry or clothing – but the adorning of the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of their gentle spirit, which is precious before You and before all the brotherhood. Let purity reign! To them, O LORD, let purity reign, let marriages increase, let husbands stay faithful to love and serve them, let children be obedient to learn from them, let the sisterhood grow to flourish them. We praise You for the Hosanna women of God who fear You, worthy to be praised through their Savior and risen Lord Jesus Christ, amen & amen.