7/20/2025 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. 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.
 
*FINAL WEEK REMAINING TO NOMINATE! UNTIL JULY 26th – NOMINATIONS FOR NEXT 2025-’26 CLASS OF ORDAINED OFFICERS (future Elders & Deacons) – NOMINATE THROUGH WEBPAGE LINKS! – for Deacon and Elder (click the links for detailed information on definition, roles & responsibilities). Nominate online at the bottom of webpage Nomination Form. *You should receive a verification email that your nomination was received well.

• You may nominate yourself for Deacon or Elder
• You may nominate another person that God puts in your heart for Deacon or Elder
• Current Ordained Officers may nominate you
• *To keep the integrity of this process as congregation-led, the Pastor has no nominating privileges/cannot cast a nomination
• *To keep the integrity of this process, all submitters of nominations will be held in confidentiality and anonymity to the nominee

All nominated names will be collected, prayed over, and assessed by the current Session for candidacy. At the Session’s discretion, formal invitation letters to candidacy will be sent at an ongoing basis. *The last day to nominate yourself or someone else to ordained office will be Saturday, July 26, 2025. ****All Covenant Partners of Hosanna Church are encouraged to submit a nomination! No submission of any nomination(s) either sends the message that we have not spent the adequate time to know our servant-leaders and do not know who ought to serve and lead us, or we do not desire anyone to serve and lead us, or we are careless as to who serves or leads us. All these are attitudes we want to avoid! Since the term for all current Ordained Officers (both Elders and Deacons) are ending or considering renewal, it is vital that we prayerfully nominate or re-nominate current Officers or new potential candidates as Officers of the Lord’s Church, getting to know who exemplifies the qualifies of ordained office, and prayerfully casting a nomination. **DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE VERY END AND FORGET TO DO THIS! Let us fulfill our covenant responsibilities in prayerfully discerning and nominating how the Lord leads us. Thank you!
 
*NEXT SUNDAY (7/27) – The Session has encouraged, mandated, and ordered the Pastor to take the minimum 2-Sunday off break period. Pastor & family gladly submit to the encouragement and will take next Sunday as a break for a time to reflect and be restored to the Lord with family. Pastor and family will be in the Houston area. Thank you to the congregation for the gracious break time.
 
*NEXT SUNDAY (7/27) SPECIAL GUEST PREACHER – In view of our Pastor and family taking a pastoral break, the Session has invited again Minister Dr. Will Zhao – Pastor Chester’s ECO pastoral ordination mentee –  to deliver the Word of God to us. Dr. Zhao currently serves as a resident church-planter at our sister-ECO Presbyterian congregation in the Dallas area, Highland Park Presbyterian Church and in their family of churches, one of which is the Highland Park Chinese Church, led by Rev. Ben Wang. Dr. Zhao has been with HPCC since 2015, and the congregation has grown to plant a new Chinese fellowship in Richardson, TX called the Solid Rock Fellowship, where Dr. Zhao also serves as its primary church-planter. Dr. Zhao was born and raised in China, where he studied and graduated with the Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Peking University in Beijing. He came to the Dallas area to pursue the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where he was radically moved to trust in Jesus Christ and came to a saving knowledge of God’s love through Christians on the SMU campus who offered their fellowship and shared the gospel with him. Through this radical transformation of faith and encounter with Jesus, Dr. Zhao immediately gave up his doctoral studies in engineering and enrolled in seminary at Criswell College, where his calling to pastoral ministry began to grow. He graduated with the Master of Divinity degree in 2016, and then went on to Dallas Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 2023 with the Ph.D. degree in Old Testament studies, majoring in the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Bible (especially the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Psalms, and Song of Songs). Currently, Dr. Zhao is a candidate for pastoral ordination in our ECO Presbyterian denomination for Ordained Minister/Reverend.
 
*TEXAS PRESBYTERY-WIDE CALL FOR PRAYER FOR HILL COUNTRY FLOOD CRISIS! – We are continuing a spirit of fasting and prayer for the flood disaster as our Texas Presbytery leaders have called for us to do as ECO Presbyterian churches. As of today, 134 are deceased (including many young children) and 101 persons still remain missing (including young children). *For the remainder of this week, fast at least one meal and pray for all the grieving families, those who are still missing, the heroic first responders still searching, and all the churches who incurred great damage from this disaster. The Session will donate through the appropriate channels to help with relief efforts.
 
*HOSANNA INTERCESSORY PRAYER (HIP) TEAM! – Do you have a passion for prayer, collecting confidential and public prayer requests, and interceding prayerfully for one another and the mission of Hosanna Church? We are excited to create our first-ever HIP (Hosanna Intercessory Prayer) team – a group of prayer warriors who collect & organize prayer requests, are a constant stream of prayer before Father God, and meet occasionally to pray for the church. See Elder Patrick to join this vital ministry of Hosanna!
 
*TODAY (7/20) –

• CONTINUING PRAYER PERIOD & NOMINATIONS – until 7/26. Nominate online at end of webpage for Deacon and Elder
• BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS – *after-service 12:00pm at gymnasium cafeteria. *Let’s make intentional effort to participate in our breakout discussion groups!
• LUNCH MENU – 12:00pm at gymnasium cafeteria. Korean soft-tofu (Soon tofu jjigae). Enjoy!
• STAFF gathering – 1:15pm at Corner Conference Room

*TODAY’S PRAISE SONGS! – Practice them and be ready to sing this morning! Praise on, brothers and sisters! (1) I Believe; (2) Man of Sorrows; (3) The Jesus Way

*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –

• 7/26 (Sat) AGAPE families & young adults life group, 4:30pm-7:30pm at Ezra Chapel
• 7/27 (Sun) PASTORAL BREAK & GUEST PREACHER: Minister Dr. Will Zhao, Solid Rock Fellowship
• 7/27 (Sun) SESSION+DEACONS gathering, 1:15pm at Corner Conference Room

 
*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! “For the Second Time, Obey God Alone as His Witness with the Holy Spirit” (ACTS 5:21-33).
 
(1.) [v.21-25] The apostles were supposed to be in the public prison where the jealous priestly leaders put them, yet in great perplexity where did they find the apostles the next day and what were they doing (v.25)? Am I remaining lock-up in the place where Satan expects me to be? How has the Holy Spirit freed me to be where He desires for me, and continue doing what He’s called me to do? How can I be found missing where the world expects me to be, and ever-present where the Spirit of God has placed me to be?
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(2.) [v.26-28] Humiliated and embarrassed, the temple leaders and priestly leaders bring the apostles back to them from their apparent jailbreak. Instead of humbly being in fear of God, who were they more afraid of (v.26)? Instead of repenting and receiving the message of the apostles, what do they double-down on saying (v.28)? Am I more afraid of being hurt in the sight of people rather than being eternally judged in the sight of God? What am I doubling-down on that is increasing a spirit of hard-heartedness towards the life-saving blood of Jesus? Is His blood on my hands, yet not in my heart?
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(3.) [v.29-33] Peter and the apostles have been arrested before (see ACTS 4:21). This being the second time, how do they reply to the priestly leaders as they did similarly during their first arrest (see ACTS 4:19)? For the second time, or third, or fourth… how am I being prepared to obey Christ alone as His witness?
 
 
*UPCOMING (*notice some dates may have changed) –

• 7/26 (Sat) AGAPE life group & LAST DAY TO CAST NOMINATIONS FOR ORDAINED OFFICE CANDIDATES
• 7/27 (Sun) PASTORAL BREAK & GUEST PREACHER (Minister Dr. Will Zhao, Solid Rock Fellowship), ORDAINED OFFICERS (Elders+Deacons) GATHERING
• 8/2 (Sat) JAMES life group
• 8/3 (Sun) DESSERT MINISTRY
• 8/9 (Sat) KITCHEN MINISTRY & AGAPE LIFE GROUP
• 8/10 (Sun) BACK-TO-SCHOOL PRAYERFUL BLESSING
• 8/16 (Sat) JAMES life group
• 8/17 (Sun) STAFF GATHERING
• 8/23 (Sat) AGAPE life group
• 8/24 (Sun) OFFICER CANDIDACY ANNOUNCEMENT
• 8/31 (Sun) SESSION/ELDER BOARD GATHERING
• 9/1 (Mon) LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
• 9/6 (Sat) JAMES life group
• 9/7 (Sun) ELECTORAL VOTE FOR OFFICER CANIDACY & DESSERT MINISTRY
• 9/13 (Sat) AGAPE life group
• *9/13-14 (Sat-Sun) PREP & SERVE Bethany+Hosanna Lunch & Desserts
• 9/19-20 (Fri-Sat) TEXAS PRESBYTERY GATHERING (First Presbyterian Church, Amarillo)
• 9/20 (Sat) JAMES life group
• *9/21 (Sun) 2nd ANNIVERSARY, OFFICER ORDINATION & CELEBRATION!
• 9/28 (Sun) ORDAINED OFFICERS (Elders+Deacons) GATHERING
• 10/4 (Sat) JAMES life group
• 10/5 (Sun) DESSERTS ministry
• *10/10-12 (Fri-Sun) HOSANNA FALL RETREAT (Columbus Day Holiday Weekend)

 
*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) –

• [07/21] Emilee Gee – *YOUTH
• [07/27] Hogan Lee – *COLLEGE
• [07/30] Jonah Chung – *CHILDREN
• [07/31] Eugene Hong – *COLLEGE
• [07/31] Rev. Jim-Bob Park – *MISSIONARY
• [08/02] Melanie Gee – *CHILDREN
• [08/03] Deaconess Gloria Gee
• [08/18] Juhae Park
• [08/20] Hoon Park
• [09/07] Noah Cha – *COLLEGE
• [09/13] Samuel Loh
• [09/18] Tyler Lee
• [09/25] Hannah Lee – *COLLEGE
• [09/25] James Han
• [09/28] Hannah Kim – *COLLEGE
• [10/04] Daniel An – *COLLEGE
• [10/07] Deacon Chong Choe
• [10/18] Irene Park – *CHILDREN
• [10/26] Stacy Hong

 
 
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on the 2025-’26 Hosanna Ordained Spiritual Leadership
 
Scripture:
 
Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. (HEBREWS 13:7)
 
I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service (1 TIMOTHY 1:12)
 
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (EPHESIANS 2:10)
 
 
Prayer (by Pastor Chester):
Heavenly Father, we first take a moment again to lift-up to You the over one-hundred and thirty souls who have been taken from the Hill country flooding, as well as the over one-hundred souls still missing, the hundreds of grieving families that are mourning for their children, parents, relatives, and grandparents they now must press on without. We especially pray for the families who are grieving the passing of their children. Wipe away their tears, and help them know You are near and with them. By the power of the gospel, bring the hope of Your resurrected life, that we will all see You and one another again, and what a day of rejoicing in Your Son that will be! Continue to strengthen the first responders in the flood wreckage, and let every soul be found in You. Again, we lift-up to You this final week of nominations. We remember our ordained leaders who spoke to us the Word of God. We consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. We thank You for giving us strength in Christ, judging us faithful and appointing us to Your service in all the varied ways of Your Church. Remind us we are Your masterpiece and workmanship, created in Christ for the good works You prepared in advance for us to walk in. Choose Your choice ordained leaders for 2025-26 ministry year. We trust in Your Holy Spirit’s guidance into all truth, through the only way, truth, and life Jesus Christ we pray, Amen & amen.