12/15/2024 Sunday Announcements

1. *HAPPY CHRISTMAS ADVENT LORD’S DAY & 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 and new Children’s Minister Sewon Cho! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to the Bethany children’s chapel – *PLEASE WALK 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. *NOTICE: HOSANNA STAFF BREAKS – Pray for our honored staff during their breaks: Worship Minister Samantha Chao (12/15); Preschool Worship Director Rachel Ko (12/15, 12/22, 12/29).
4. *CHRISTMAS ADVENT DEVOTIONAL – Follow daily with our Christmas Advent devotional sent from our good friends at Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas, for a fresh arrival of Christ for you and your family this Christmas. Each day, there is Scripture and a written prayer. Download and follow this free devotional here (on our webpage) – https://www.hosannapc.org/advent.
5. *THANK YOU, KITCHEN SERVANTS – Thank you to those serving this ministry. Take note of the covenant schedule rotations for next month in January 2025 – JAMES life group will kitchen prep and JOHN life group will dishwash. Let us serve the Lord with gladness! *If you have not taken the food handlers course yet, see Elder Heather and complete that at your earliest convenience. Thank you!
6. *TODAY, BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS continuing after-service – Take note of the group number at the bottom of the bulletin note page. We encourage all to spend some time together after-benediction to share the Word together!
7. *TODAY, INFANT BAPTISM ORIENTATION, 1:15pm @ Corner Conference Room – Pray for those taking part in this final orientation today.
8. *THIS SATURDAY (12/21) HOSANNA CHRISTMAS PARTY FELLOWSHIP & GIFT EXCHANGE, 5:30pm – 8:30pm @ Ezra Chapel/Foyer hallway – As Christmas approaches, let us come together for a Christmas celebration! Delicious catered food and a joyful time of exchanging gifts through a white-elephant game awaits. *Bring any wrapped gift under $15.00 and let us exchange the greatest gift with one another – our Lord Jesus Christ!
9. *NEXT SUNDAY (12/22) – CHRISTMAS FAMILY WORSHIP & BAPTISM – (1) *Parents of youth and children (kinder-5th), there will be no 10am youth service nor 11am children’s service. Bethany Korean Church will hold a joint worship, and likewise Hosanna will hold a joint worship with all preschool, children, and youth starting at our regular time of 10:40am. Bring your children to worship together. *All children will be dismissed at 11:00am with Teacher Ashley Chung for a Christmas ornament craft. *Parents will also be dismissed at approximately 11:20am to view the children’s Christmas Performance in the Korean Main Chapel, as desired. (2) *At the beginning of the Christmas worship, we will be reading Scripture and lighting the five advent candles. Those who are Scripture readers and candle lighters, be prepared! May the Lord bless the reading of His Word that is our Light. (3) *We will joyfully hold an infant baptism: Irene Joy Park – daughter to Juhae and Hoon. *Please come ready to give your congregational vow to the family and to the Lord as Elder Heather administers them, as we welcome and mark Irene out with the covenant sign of what He has done for all time for all people unconditionally – the giving of Christ and the gift of His washing with water and blood. Pray and participate in this sacred time together. Join us in congratulating the Park’s!
10. *SAVE THE DATE! – DECEMBER END-OF-YEAR SPECIAL GUEST PREACHER on NEW YEAR’S EVE LORD’S DAY (12/29 [Sun]) – REV. JIM-BOB PARK – We have a great blessing awaiting us to close out the year 2024 with Rev. Jim-Bob Park from Compassion Korea, who is coming to give us the Lord’s Day message! Pastor Park travels across the globe with Compassion Korea to release children from poverty in Jesus’ Name, spreading hope to dream God’s dreams again for their lives. He is an internationally and nationally known veteran Pastor, mentor, and advisor to hundreds of Asian-American pastors and ministries. Invite your friends and make sure to be here yourself to receive His pastoral wisdom and heart!
11. *NOTICE FOR JANUARY – ASSIGNED MONTH TABLE/CHAIRS SETUP & CLEANUP WITH NEW COVENANT SERVANT SCHEDULE ROTATIONS – Bethany Korean Church has assigned Hosanna the entire month of January 2025 to setup the gymnasium/cafeteria tables & chairs on Saturday and cleanup on Sunday at 1:10am, starting with wiping the tables down followed by folding away the tables & chairs. In conjunction with the kitchen schedule, we want to move away from a volunteer basis and into a covenant schedule among our life groups leading the ministry. Take note of the date assigned and let us make room and priority to setup the Lord’s table for His people throughout January.
12. *KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom Expansion Prayer will focus on our Kitchen servants and Breaking Bread Ministry.

 
Scripture:
 
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers… And day by day, attending the temple together and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts. (ACTS 2:42; ACTS 2:46)
 
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” (MATTHEW 26:26)
 
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh. (JOHN 6:51)
 
Prayer (written by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You our Kitchen servants and our current and future breaking of bread ministers. As the early Christ followers did, let us devote ourselves – devote ourselves to the apostles teaching, to the fellowship, to the prayers, and especially to the breaking of bread together. Day by day, find us attending Your temple, Your Church, and breaking bread together in our gatherings and in our homes, receiving our food with glad and generous hearts. For You, Lord Jesus, gave us the gift of Your communion – a shared life together with You – to receive Your grace when on the night You were betrayed, You took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to Your disciples, saying, “Take, eat, this is my body.” So give us a holy fear, that the bread we take and eat in this koinonia fellowship is not just to fill our stomachs, but to feed our souls, for You are spiritually present among us as the bread of life from heaven. You alone, Lord Jesus, are our living bread, and all who come to eat of You shall never grow hungry or thirsty again. We will all live forever with Your flesh within us. Help us experience this power of breaking bread, taking and eating the bread of Christ. Help us serve one another this bread, and in so doing would You feed us in the process. Flourish this ministry for the glory of Your Word, our living bread, so that no one may leave hungry, unfed, or starved from Hosanna. Open our mouths! Replenish our strength through the Living Bread our Lord Jesus Christ, whose body and bread was given unto us, amen & amen.