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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. *TODAY – FAREWELL TO BETHANY KOREAN PASTOR ISAIAH & MINISTER SUNNY AHN & FAMILY – Today is the last Sunday for our Bethany Korean Pastor Isaiah Lee, who served our elderly and directed the Korean choir, as well as his wife Minister Sunny Ahn, who served the children’s ministry & Korean toddlers ministry. They will be moving to Seattle’s Hyungjae Church (Korean Community Church of Seattle) in Washington, as the new Pastor for Korean young adults and choir. Let us congratulate them and bless them on their way! *NOTICE: NEXT SUNDAY (9/7) after-service CONGREGATIONAL MEETING FOR ELECTION! – After much prayer, praise be to God for selecting and calling His servants! The Session gives thanks to the Lord for all the nominees who have devoted time to pray, fast, and discern their nomination. All candidates are nominees who have prayerfully accepted their nomination, as well as been examined by Session for their qualifications for ordained office according to our bylaws, ECO’s Essential Tenets, and biblical standards. *Having approved and passed all the nominees into candidates, the Session now presents these updates and candidates to the congregation for your two-week prayer period prior to the electoral vote on 9/7 (Sunday), to cast your vote of “confidence” or “no-confidence” for each candidate after-service 11:40am-12:00pm in the Choir Room. We ask all covenant partners to take this covenant responsibility seriously and prayerfully, and make every effort to be present on 9/7 (Sunday) to courageously cast your vote. A 2/3rd-majority is the passing threshold for these sacred offices. The 2025-’26 Officer Status Updates & Candidates are as follows:
*2025-’26 OFFICER PROFILES – Get to know our 2025-’26 candidates for ordained office, as well as those renewing their covenant terms – hosannapc.org/officer-profiles. *They are also on the wallboard in the foyer outside the Chapel. Pray for these precious candidates and officers of the Lord’s Church! *EARLY ONLINE VOTING FOR ABSENTEES STARTS TODAY (8/31 until 9/5)! – Your vote means so much to us! This is why the Session wants to make a way for those who are unable to attend the Congregational Election on 9/7 to vote online. *Online voting is only for those absentees who are unable to make it in-person on 9/7. Absentee online voting must be done EARLY between these dates: 8/31 (Sunday) to 9/5 (Friday) at the following secure webpage – hosannapc.org/vote-online. All ballots of online voters will remain strictly in confidentiality and anonymity. *After submission, a verification email will be sent to the online voter that their ballot was submitted correctly and received well, and will be part of the total vote count with the in-person ballots. We pray all our online voters can join in this historic vote as Hosanna turns the page into its 3rd year and chapter! *2nd ANNIVERSARY WORSHIP SERVICE (9/21 [Sun]) SPECIAL GUEST PREACHER – Rev. Mark Story, Assistant Pastor, Highland Park Presbyterian Church of Dallas – Praise be to God for calling His servant to preach the Word on the special occasion of our 2nd Anniversary Worship Service! Pastor Mark has been a vital part of helping get Hosanna chartered into our denominational family as an official church, and has particularly done a lot of work in editing our bylaws. Rev. Mark Story grew up in San Angelo, Texas and has lived in Texas his whole life. He received an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Southern Methodist University and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law. Pastor Mark is a “second career” pastor, practicing law in Dallas for almost 25 years before becoming the Executive Director of Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas in 2004. He has been passionate about the ECO Presbyterian denomination from even before its official organization and Highland Park was among the first wave of churches to join. Pastor Mark served as Moderator of the ECO Presbytery in 2017 and currently is a member of the Ministry Partnership Team of the Presbytery. He received his Master of Divinity degree from Dubuque Theological Seminary and proudly became ordained as an ECO Pastor just as he was winding down his career as Executive Director of Highland Park. He continues to serve as an Assistant Pastor at Highland Park on a voluntary basis. Mark and his wife, Bettie, have two grown daughters and five grandchildren. *Let us remember Pastor Mark in our prayers and be ready to receive God’s Word through him. *2025 “LIFT UP YOUR EYES” (John 4:35) HOSANNA FALL RETREAT, 10/10-12 (Fri-Sun)! – "Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest." (JOHN 4:35). Through this blessed retreat on Columbus Day weekend, we hope to be encouraged to lift up our eyes and keep looking to Christ in all things, enduring faithfully in serving His great harvest that is ready right now! *Retreat will take place from Friday evening to Saturday evening at an Airbnb in McKinney, and conclude at our church facility in Ezra Chapel on Sunday morning at 10:30am Sunday morning worship. Attendees are welcomed to stay at the Airbnb Friday evening until Sunday morning, or come-and-go as needed. *Special Guest Preacher TBA. *See the Deacons for more details and to register for the retreat! Let’s not give up gathering together, all the more as the day of the Lord approaches!
*ALL-CONGREGATION PRAYERS – As Scripture commands us, let us pray for one another, especially those who are sick/ill physically among us (JAMES 5:14-15; 3 JOHN 1:2) as well as special topics needing our attentive intercession.
*TODAY: SUNDAY (8/31) –
*UPCOMING NEXT WEEK –
*TODAY’S PRAISE SONGS! – Practice them and be ready to sing this morning! Praise on, brothers and sisters! (1) Saving One; (2) I Will Wait for You; (3) Christ Be All Around Me *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! “Learn from Joseph, for God was with Him” (ACTS 7:9-16). (1.) [v.9-10] What did the jealous brothers of Joseph do to him (v.9)? Even when Joseph was imprisoned in Egypt, who was with Joseph, just like what had happened to Abraham in Mesopotamia (v.9; see prior v.2)? How did God turn everything around for Joseph (v.10)? Why was Deacon Stephen preaching about Joseph in view of what has been happening to him, the apostles, as well as what had happened to the Lord Jesus Christ at His betrayal? Like God did for Joseph, how is God with me right now in my “Egypt”? Like He did for Joseph, how has Christ rescued me, given me favor and wisdom, and one day make me His co-heir reigning with Him as His servant over all His household? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) [v.11-13] What did God do to show Joseph’s brothers the consequences for their sins in having sold their own brother out of their jealousy (v.11)? Even through His judgment, how was God preparing Joseph’s brothers in their travels to reconcile with Joseph (v.12)? Since his own brothers do not recognize him, what does Joseph do on their second visit (v.13)? How is God showing me the consequences for my sins to lead me into a humble confession of my sins? Even through judgment for sin, how is God preparing me to be reconciled to Him and to one another? Do I recognize who I sin against? Is it not just someone, but the Holy One of all? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) [v.14-16] When Joseph forgave his brothers, what did he do that showed his desire for a complete reconciliation with his entire family (v.14)? Because of this family reunion and reconciliation under Joseph’s rulership, how did God grant Jacob a blessed life, including his final burial location (v.15-16)? How is Christ calling me not only to forgive, but also to restore and reconcile a broken relationship, if the power to do so depends on me? Because of my initiative in Christ to forgive, reunite and reconcile broken relationships, what kind of blessing awaits me? [Korean translation] “요셉에게서 배우라 하나님이 그와 함께 계셨느니라” (사도행전 7:9-16) (1.) [9-10절] 질투심 많은 요셉의 형들은 그에게 무슨 짓을 했습니까(9절)? 요셉이 애굽에 갇혀 있을 때에도, 메소포타미아에서 아브라함에게 일어났던 일처럼 요셉과 함께 있던 사람은 누구였습니까(9절, 앞의 2절 참조)? 하나님께서는 어떻게 요셉을 위해 모든 것을 바꾸어 놓으셨습니까(10절)? 스데반 집사는 요셉과 사도들에게 일어난 일, 그리고 주 예수 그리스도께서 배신당하셨을 때 일어났던 일을 고려하면서 왜 요셉에 대해 설교했습니까? 하나님께서 요셉에게 하신 것처럼, 하나님께서 지금 이 "애굽"에서 저와 함께하고 계십니까? 요셉에게 하신 것처럼, 그리스도께서는 어떻게 저를 구원하시고, 은총과 지혜를 주시고, 언젠가 저를 그분의 공동 상속자로 삼아 그분의 온 집안을 다스리는 종으로 다스리게 하셨습니까? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) [11-13절] 하나님께서는 요셉의 형들에게 질투심에 사로잡혀 자기 동생을 팔아버린 죄의 결과를 보여주시기 위해 무엇을 하셨습니까(11절)? 심판을 통해서도, 하나님께서는 요셉의 형들이 요셉과 화해하도록 그들의 여정에서 어떻게 준비시키셨습니까(12절)? 형들이 요셉을 알아보지 못하자, 요셉은 두 번째 방문에서 어떻게 했습니까(13절)? 하나님께서는 어떻게 제 죄의 결과를 보여주셔서 겸손하게 죄를 고백하게 하셨습니까? 죄에 대한 심판을 통해서도, 하나님께서는 어떻게 제가 그분과 화해하고 서로 화해하도록 준비시키셨습니까? 저는 제가 누구에게 죄를 지었는지 알고 있습니까? 단지 누군가에게만 죄를 지은 것이 아니라, 만유의 거룩하신 분에게 죄를 지은 것입니까? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) [14-16절] 요셉이 형제들을 용서했을 때, 온 가족과의 완전한 화해를 바라는 그의 간절한 마음을 어떻게 나타냈습니까(14절)? 요셉의 통치 아래 이루어진 이러한 가족 재결합과 화해로 인해, 하나님께서는 야곱에게 어떻게 그의 마지막 장례 장소를 포함하여 축복받은 삶을 허락하셨습니까(15-16절)? 그리스도께서는 어떻게 나에게 용서할 뿐만 아니라, 만약 그렇게 할 능력이 나에게 달려 있다면, 깨진 관계를 회복하고 화해하도록 부르시는 것입니까? 그리스도 안에서 깨진 관계를 용서하고, 재결합하고, 화해시키려는 나의 주도성으로 인해, 나에게는 어떤 축복이 기다리고 있습니까? *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 the 2025-’26 Candidates for Ordained Office of Elder and Deacon. Scripture: And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed. (ACTS 14:23) For an overseer, as God's steward, must be above reproach. He must not be arrogant or quick-tempered or a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain, but hospitable, a lover of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. (TITUS 1:7-9) As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered to them for observance the decisions that had been reached by the apostles and elders who were in Jerusalem. (ACTS 16:4) Prayer (by Pastor Chester): Heavenly Father, we lift up to You the 2025-’26 candidates for your ordained offices of Deacon and Elder in Your beloved Church. We thank You, Holy Spirit, for guiding us through the season of nominations, putting forth the names of those whom You have called to Your precious harvest. We thank You for candidates Patrick Liu, Nara Jeng, Juhae Park, Jonathan Jeng, and the covenant term renewals of Deacons Chong Choe, Gloria Gee, and Waywah Gee, as well as the legacy of faithful office and service that Elder Heather leaves before us all. Father God, as we pray over the candidate profiles and prepare for the election next Sunday, help us to obey Your holy Spirit. As in the days of the New Testament Church, we appoint elders and deacons with prayer and fasting, committing them to You, Lord, in whom they have believed. For our future Session and Elders, we ask they continue to hold the biblical standard as Your steward, be above reproach, not arrogant or quick-tempered, nor a drunkard or violent or greedy for gain. But rather, but all our officers be hospitable, lovers of good, self-controlled, upright, holy, and disciplined. May they hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that they might be able to give instruction in sound doctrine to the congregation, as well as rebuke those who contradict it. We pray for the congregation to respect and observe the decisions of our Elders especially, and esteem them highly in love, so that Your Church might be put into godly order to grow in grace and peace, through our chief Elder and Overseer of our souls, Jesus Christ our Master we pray, Amen & amen.
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