4/19/2026 Sunday 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. Suyoung 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.
 
*SUNDAY WORSHIP HARD-STOP at 11:40AM, SO LET'S BE ON-TIME FOR 10:30AM START-TIME! - Because the Korean ministry is doing a seminar in the Chapel at approximately 1:30pm for the next couple of weeks, and the youth service is sandwiched in-between us, Youth Director Kris requested that we end as early as possible so that the youth students can come into service by 11:50am, so that the youth service will not end past 1:00pm-1:10pm and effect the Korean seminar. To honor their request, let's start by coming on-time to worship. *Coming on-time does not mean walking-in at 10:30am. *Please come between 10:00am to 10:15am, greeting one another, sharing in breakfast fellowship, helping any needs with the Welcoming Team, and preparing with earnest prayer in the Chapel prior to the worship countdown. Thank you for your understanding.
 
*WEEKLY SUNDAY PRE-SERVICE 9:30AM BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP in the Office Café! – Come early and enjoy some croissants, coffee, and tea weekly on Sunday starting 9:30am on the Office Café table. Enjoy!
 
*PRIASE BE TO GOD - SISTER MYA KRIEF serving HOSANNA BAKING MINISTRY - Sister Mya has sacrificially and graciously offered to serve our new baking ministry to celebrate our monthly birthdays with a homemade cake every 1st Sunday of the month. Thank you!
 
*NEXT SUNDAY (4/26) FAREWELL to LOS ANGELES, KOREAN MINISTRY MEDIA PASTOR - Rev. Yong Ok Hwang & Family - Many of you have seen and known Pastor Hwang, his beloved wife and two lovely children, from our Korean congregation. Pastor Hwang has received the Lord's pastoral calling to the Los Angeles area to a flagship Korean Church in our ECO Presbyterian denomination - Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church of Chino Hills. May the Lord flourish his ministry to this precious church. Please bless him as you see him & family.
 
*TODAY – SUNDAY (4/19) 1:05pm TABLES WIPE-DOWN & TABLES/CHAIRS CLEANUP – *Table Wipe-down Team: Jonathan Jeng (Team Lead), Elder Nara Jeng, Mya Krief, Eric Sung, Timothy Sung, Joseph Ko, Rachel Ko; *Tables/Chairs Cleanup Crew: Everyone
 
*TODAY – SUNDAY (4/19) 1:20pm SESSION gathering – Pray for our Elders as they gather to guide and govern the Lord’s church.
 
*UPCOMING – THIS SATURDAY (4/18) TABLES/CHAIRS SETUP & SUNDAY CLEANUP – *The schedule is posted on our wallboard outside the Chapel. Find your name (it should be listed 2x) and commit to serve that date. Your Team Lead should be contacting you for spiritual accountability to this ministry on your assigned date. If you are unable to serve on your assigned date, contact your Team Lead and seek to switch dates with other servants at your available time. *Before serving together, please open in prayer. After finishing your service, please close by praying for the breaking of bread ministry.
*Serving THIS SATURDAY (4/25) Setup, 3:30pm: 
Deacon Juhae Park (Team Lead), Hoon Park, Minister Samantha Chao, Justin Chao, Daniel Roger Lee, Eugene Hong
*Serving NEXT SUNDAY (4/26) Cleanup, 1:05pm:
*Table Wipe-down Team: Deacon Chong Choe (Team Lead), Kate Choe, Elder Andrew Lee, Elder Heather Lee, Miki Krief, Chester Chung; *Tables/Chairs Cleanup Crew: Everyone
 
*UPCOMING – THIS SATURDAY (4/25) - 4:30pm AGAPE young adults & families life group gathering - *Continuing lessons on the letter to the Ephesians, led by co-shepherds Elder Nara/Deacon Jonathan. Join us!
 
 
*TODAY: SUNDAY (4/19) –

• *9:30am weekly pre-service BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP in Office Café (croissants, coffee & tea)
• *10:30am LORD’S DAY WORSHIP (altogether, children & youth dismissed 10:55am) at Ezra Chapel
• *12:00pm after-service BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS at Gymnasium Cafeteria
• *12:00pm FREE LUNCH: Menu: TBA at Gymnasium Cafeteria. Enjoy!
• *1:05pm TABLES wipe-down & TABLES/CHAIRS CLEANUP (Team Lead: Deacon Jonathan Jeng)
• *1:20pm SESSION gathering

 
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –

• 4/25 (Sat) 3:30pm TABLES/CHAIRS SETUP (Team Lead: Deacon Juhae Park); 4:30pm AGAPE life group
• 4/26 (Sun) 1:05pm TABLES CHAIRS CLEANUP (Team Lead: Deacon Chong Choe); 1:20pm SESSION gathering
• 4/28 (Tues) HAPPY BIRTHDAY! – Brian Ahn & Brian Joo
• 5/2 (Sat) 4:30pm JAMES families life group gathering

 
*TODAY’S PRAISE SONGS! – Practice them and be ready to sing this morning! Praise on, brothers and sisters! (1) This is Our God; (2) Yet Not I But Through Christ in Me; (Response Song) Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone

*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!
[The Gospel According to the Acts of the Apostles – THE CHURCH IN ACTION (part 47)] 
"Now I am Sure that the Lord has Rescued Me" (ACTS 12:6-11)
 
(1.) [v.6] It is amazing how Peter was sound asleep on the very night that Herod was about to bring him out to kill him by the sword, just like he did with James. Even bound in chains to two soldiers, Peter fell into a deep sleep in the peace of Lord. Amid danger and despair, David writes in Psalm 4:8, “In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.” While Herod restlessly waited and anxiously enforced his maximum-security imprisonment measures on Peter, Peter peacefully slept and was quietly safe in the arms of God. Are you sleeping well in the peace of the Lord? Even with those situations chained to you and unknown outcome of circumstances around you, how is the Lord calling you to be at sleep and at rest in Christ? How does the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding need to fall upon you today?
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(2.) [v.7-9] How must obedience to the ways of Jesus precede your understanding of the ways of Jesus? Although Peter did not know what was going on when the angel of the Lord awoke him, Peter obeyed all the directions he was told to do. How is the Lord waking you up? Are you getting up to follow His directions in His Word or falling back to your former chained life without any sense of direction? Are your chains falling off or are you putting them back on? How can we follow Jesus instead of test Jesus with our reasoning and own understanding?
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(3.) [v.10-11] The Lord has opened every iron gate separating us from Him. He may lead us to the opened gate, but we must resolve to walk through it. Are you getting out of your iron gate? Do you know that it has opened for you? Is the iron gate the issue, or are you the issue? How are you becoming more aware that His rescue and answer is right in front of you?
 
 
[Korean translation]
“내가 이제야 참으로 주께서 나를 벗어나게 하신 줄 알겠노라” (사도행전 12장 6-11절)
 
(1.) [6절] 헤롯이 야고보를 죽였던 것처럼 베드로도 칼로 죽이려고 끌어내려던 바로 그날 밤, 베드로가 얼마나 깊이 잠들어 있었는지 참으로 놀랍습니다. 두 병사에게 사슬로 묶여 있었음에도 불구하고, 베드로는 주님의 평화 안에서 깊은 잠에 빠졌습니다. 다윗은 시편 4편 8절에서 위험과 절망 속에서도 "내가 평안히 눕고 자리니 주만이 나를 안전하게 지키시나이다"라고 노래했습니다. 헤롯이 초조하게 기다리며 베드로를 삼엄한 감금 조치를 강행하는 동안, 베드로는 하나님의 품 안에서 평화롭게 잠들어 있었습니다. 당신은 주님의 평화 안에서 잘 자고 있습니까? 당신을 얽매고 있는 상황과 당신 주변 환경의 결과를 알 수 없는 상황 속에서도, 주님께서는 당신이 그리스도 안에서 어떻게 잠들고 안식하기를 바라십니까? 모든 이해를 초월하는 그리스도의 평화가 오늘 당신에게 어떻게 임해야 합니까?
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(2.) [7-9절] 예수님의 길을 이해하기 전에 어떻게 예수님의 길에 순종해야 합니까? 베드로는 주님의 천사가 자신을 깨울 때 무슨 일이 일어나는지 알지 못했지만, 지시받은 모든 것을 순종했습니다. 주님께서는 어떻게 당신을 깨우고 계십니까? 당신은 주님의 말씀에 있는 지시를 따르기 위해 일어나고 있습니까, 아니면 방향 감각 없이 이전의 쇠사슬에 묶인 삶으로 되돌아가고 있습니까? 당신의 쇠사슬이 풀리고 있습니까, 아니면 다시 쇠사슬을 채우고 있습니까? 어떻게 하면 우리의 이성과 이해로 예수님을 시험하는 대신 예수님을 따를 수 있습니까?
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(3.) [10-11절] 주님께서는 우리와 그분 사이를 가로막는 모든 철문을 열어 놓으셨습니다. 그는 우리를 열린 문으로 인도하실 수 있지만, 우리는 그 문을 통과하기로 결심해야 합니다. 당신은 당신의 철문을 통과하고 있습니까? 그 문이 당신을 위해 열렸다는 것을 알고 있습니까? 문제는 철문입니까, 아니면 당신 자신입니까? 그의 구원과 해답이 바로 당신 앞에 있다는 것을 어떻게 더 분명하게 깨닫고 있습니까?
 
 
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on Hosanna Staff, Officers, and Hosanna Intercessory Prayer (HIP) ministry
 
Scripture:
 
So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church. (ACTS 12:5)
 
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. (PHILIPPIANS 4:6)
 
Praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints (EPHESIANS 6:18)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, as the earliest followers of Christ kept earnestly praying for Peter in prison, may Hosanna be a church where earnest prayer is unceasingly offered to intercede for one another with prayer. Let us not seek to just unload prayer requests on You, but seek prayer that bears the fruit of repentance, obedience, as You, Father God, unload Your grace, mercy, peace, and love in Jesus Christ upon us, so that we may transform our ways into Your ways, and our thoughts into Your thoughts. In prayer, let us not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication stir up in us a thankful heart, letting our requests be made known to You but never seeking an answer that revolves only around us. Just as Jesus taught us how to pray through the Lord’s prayer and showed us His prayerful life with tears, with a thankful heart, with full dependence upon Father and Spirit, with the power that unleashed the miraculous signs and wonders, the fullness of faith and obedience to death, even death on a cross – let our prayers ultimately leave us in our knees, more surrendered to You, denying ourselves, in deeper love with Your only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. At all times, may we pray in the Spirit, keeping alert with all perseverance, interceding on behalf of all the saints. Today we intercede for our Pastor, for our Minister Chao, for Director Trey, Rachel & Ashley serving the children. We intercede for Elder Patrick, Elder Nara, Reserve Elder Heather, for the search for our 3rd Elder to complete the Session, for our Deacons Waywah & Gloria, Chong, Jonathan, Juhae, all the lay servants leaders and our Hosanna Intercessory Prayer team. Make these names as precious to us as the Twelve disciples were to Christ. May they be prayerful backbones of Your body of Hosanna. Thank You for our new visiting friends last Sunday, Michael & Hailey. Continue flourishing our 9:30am breakfast fellowship. Help us come on-time to worship. Give inspiring reflections on Your Word in our breakout discussion groups today, and fill our stomachs not only with food today but with the living Bread of life. Bless the hands of all our table/chairs setup and cleanup servants today and a final time next week. Bless the Agape life group gathering this Saturday. Continue growing our newborn sister Selene in strength, wisdom, stature, in favor with You, alongside all the three precious lives being knit together in the womb – Baby Park, Baby Jeng, Baby Chao. Heal the ill & sick among us. Provide for those who have lost jobs with new flourishing work. Strength our marriages with deeper affections and intimacy in Christ. Provide our singles with a godly spouse in purity and undivided devotion in singleness, as You call them. Earnestly we pray in the risen and powerful name of our Prayer Teacher and High Priest, always living to prayerfully intercede for us at the right hand of the Father’s throne – Jesus Christ we pray, Amen & Amen.