3/30/2025 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 of children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Ministry! – 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! *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. *2025 LENT CONTINUES! – The forty days leading-up to Easter, known as the Lenten season, has begun. *Today is Day 26 – break day – and tomorrow (Monday) is Day 27 (reading Luke 13-Luke 14) as we follow the Bible Reading Plan (https://www.biblegateway.com/reading-plans/lent). During this holy season leading up to Easter, spend time praying and fasting from a usual routine, leisure, entertainment etc. to spend time reading Scripture and renewing your heart with the sufferings and resurrection of Christ.
4. *SIGN-UP FOR THIS YEAR’S HONDURAS SUMMER MISSION TRIP BY TODAY! – In co-partnership with Bethany Korean Church, we have had a longstanding investment and mission work in Honduras over many years, having planted Iglesia Evangelica Bethania, Templo Gran Luz, alongside several other churches. This year, we continue to partner with Bethany in a one-week summer mission trip from Monday (6/30) to Saturday (7/5). We are looking for volunteers to join this year’s Bethany Honduras team. Cost per person: $600-$700 airfare. Lodging and food provided. 50% of costs covered for college and youth. *There may also be opportunities for Hosanna to help subsidize costs, as able. *Please do not worry about the cost, but pray and consider this sacrificial offering of mission work to the Lord in local evangelism, children’s Bible camp, village worship nights and breaking of bread ministry to the rural residents in the mountains of Honduras. *Missions training to be conducted in April. Inquire with Elder Heather Lee and sign-up by TODAY!
5. *TODAY, ORDAINED OFFICERS GATHERING, 1:15pm @ Corner Conference Room – The Elders and Deacons will gather for their bimonthly meeting to dream and strategize the direction of the church. Pray for our ordained officers!
6. *CONTINUING TODAY, BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUP MINISTRY TEMPORARILY MOVING TO THE GYMNASIUM – Continuing today, we are temporarily moving our Sunday breakout discussion group ministry into the gymnasium, to see if that will work better for us. We thank each of you for participating in this ministry. Let us continue to breakup larger common groups and breakout into smaller groups to discuss the life-giving truths of God’s Word. **Immediately after-Sunday service, let us seek to exit the Chapel and be in the gymnasium with our group numbers by 12:05pm. Sit at your group number table and may the Lord bless our discussions together!
7. *NEXT SUNDAY (4/6) STAFF GATHERING, 1:15pm @ Corner Conference Room – Our honored staff will gather to prep for Passion week, Good Friday & Easter Sunday events. Pray for and support our honored staff!
8. *PRAY FOR APRIL’S LAUNCH OF HOSANNA LORD’S DAY SUNDAY BREAKING BREAD MINISTRY! – In April, we will attempt to launch our own Sunday breaking of bread ministry coinciding with our breakout discussion group ministry. More details to be shared by the Deacons. Pray that through this ministry, we can nurture more flourishing discipleship relationships after-service with an extended time together, kindle deeper discussions around the Word of God, inspire genuine community time with one another, fuel a posture of praying for one another, and increase a love for new faces/visitors we may only see on Sunday’s as a missional body of Christ.
9. *KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will continue focusing on the 2025 season of lent/preparation leading up to Easter Sunday.

 
Scripture:
 
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. (1 PETER 2:24)
 
But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 11 For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.” (ROMANS 10:8-11)
 
For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (ROMANS 5:6-8)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we lift up to You this sacred time of preparation leading up to Easter. With prayer, fasting, and tears, help us reexamine our walk with Your Son, purge us away from a love for the world, and free us from the addictions for things on earth so that we might return to see and embrace Your preeminence, beauty, and pleasure in knowing Christ Jesus as our Savior and Lord again. For He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree of the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By His wounds, we have been healed from the power of sin and the pleasures of sin in our flesh. Now the life we live in our bodies, we live by faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us. Holy Spirit, fill and indwell this body, and show us Your nearness, for the word is near to us through Him. It is in our mouth and our heart. Let the confessions flow out of it this Easter with a fresh new faith that Jesus is Lord and that You, Father God, raised Him from the dead. With our hearts we believe and are justified. With our mouth we confess and are saved. Everyone who calls upon Your name and believes will not be put to shame. Father, may the name of Your only Son Jesus Christ be in our hearts and on our lips again without shame, because He came to us while we were still weak. He poured out His life for us while we were still a fallen people turned against Him. Yet You showed us the extent of Your love for us in that while we were still sinners, You sent Christ to die for us. Lord, You did not wait for us to turn to You. You first died and first came to us. Thank You for this grace that first initiated and brought us into Your family. Let us continuously share this grace that first pursued us while still weak, while still sinful, through Christ Jesus who died and rose for the ungodly, amen & amen.