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*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. *HAPPY BIRTHDAY TODAY to our college brother Hogan Lee! – We praise God and thank God for you, and pray your studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth are advancing well in God’s grace. We pray all the Lee brothers (Scott, Yoojin, and Hogan) are well and miss you all very much in Christ! *TODAY – LAST DAY TO NOMINATE! – 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.
*CONGRATULATIONS TO ELDER PATRICK AND THE LIU FAMILY! – Elder Patrick’s brother – Lawrence Liu – got married last week in the northern California area. Lawrence has visited Hosanna a few times already. Thanks be to God for His providence in bringing together a godly wife and godly husband to multiply and reflect His image more brightly and clearer into the world! May the Lord bless and increase the Liu’s! *TODAY – PASTORAL BREAK – The Session has encouraged, mandated, and ordered the Pastor to take the minimum 2-Sunday off break period. Pastor & family gladly submitted to the encouragement and are currently on break in the Houston area. They will miss today and return this Wednesday (7/30). Thank you to the congregation for the gracious break time. *TODAY – 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. *Thank you, Minister Zhao, for preaching to us the Word of God! Due to a Deacon training that Dr. Zhao needs to take part around noon, he will need to leave immediately after-service. *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. *Continue this week to 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 (7/27) –
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –
*TODAY’S PRAISE SONGS! – Practice them and be ready to sing this morning! Praise on, brothers and sisters! (1) Battle Belongs; (2) Our Father; (3) Same God *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 Praying Church” (LUKE 11:1-13). (1.) On what occasions do you pray the Lord's Prayer? How can the Lord's prayer help you to pray more? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) Are your prayers as audacious as the host in Jesus' parable (see Luke 11:5-8)? What have you learned from the parable? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) What have you learned about God through your prayer life? How can Hosanna pray even more courageously for the Kingdom? [Korean translation] “기도하는 교회”(누가복음 11:1-13) (1.) 주기도문은 어떤 경우에 드리시나요? 주기도문은 어떻게 기도를 더 많이 하는 데 도움이 될까요? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) 당신의 기도는 예수님의 비유(누가복음 11:5-8 참조)에 나오는 주인처럼 담대합니까? 이 비유에서 무엇을 배웠습니까? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) 기도 생활을 통해 하나님에 대해 무엇을 배웠나요? 어떻게 하면 하나님 나라를 위해 더욱 담대하게 호산나교회가 기도를 드릴 수 있을까요? *UPCOMING (*notice some dates may have changed) –
*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) –
*KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – This week’s Kingdom expansion prayers will focus on Minister Dr. Will Zhihui Zhao’s pastoral calling, ordination, and church-planting work with Highland Park Chinese Church and Solid Rock Fellowship in Richardson, Texas. Scripture: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. (ACTS 20:28) Shepherd the flock of God that is among you, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as God would have you; not for shameful gain, but eagerly; not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock. (1 PETER 5:2-3) And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. (ACTS 2:42) Prayer (by Pastor Chester): Heavenly Father, we again take a moment to lift-up to You the ongoing crisis of the Hill country flooding. Wipe away every tear from the hundreds of grieving families, bring Your comforting peace that surpasses understanding, and strengthen the first responders still working in the flood wreckage. Let every soul be found in You. Today, we lift-up to You Minister Will Zhao, whom You have brought to us again to deliver Your words. Thank You for calling him, saving him, and leading him to the joyful obedience of preparation and pastoring Your flock. Holy Spirit, You are raising Minister Zhao as Your overseer, to care for Your Church, which You obtained with Your own blood. May he shepherd the flock of the Chief Shepherd that is among him, exercising oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly, as You would have him. Not for shameful gain, but eagerly. Not domineering over those you will put under his charge, but being the example of Christ to the flock. Lord, may Solid Rock Fellowship and Highland Park Chinese congregation be continually devoted to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. Through the gentle, compassionate, yet uncompromising shepherding work of Minister Zhao, may they flourish in Your Holy Spirit. From start to finish, guide Your servant through this ordination journey and anoint him to overflow with power from on high, filled with the Spirit, for the pastoral ministry now and all that You have planned ahead. Through the Chief Shepherd, Lead Servant and Suffering Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ’s name we pray, Amen & amen.
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