9/1/2024 Sunday Announcements

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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 beige multi-purpose bag! Stay with us after-service for our breakout discussion groups and a time to break bread together in the gymnasium as well. 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 (children (kinder to 5th grade) to Children’s Chapel with Minister Sunny! – At this time, children from kindergarten to 5th grade can head over to Pastor Sunny’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. ***CONTINUING TODAY, after-service BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS! – Thank you for staying for a few minutes after-service and being a blessing to one another through the breakout discussion group ministry. It’s really exciting to see the randomized groupings every week and who God will bring us to talk and pray with after-service, isn’t it? Let’s do it again! After-service, gather with your same number (written on the bottom of the sermon note-page in the bulletin program) and spend 15 to 20 minutes discussing the one applicational takeaway question (that will be projected on the screen as well) about the message preached, and close in praying for one another.
4. *TODAY until NEXT SUNDAY, PRAYER PERIOD for ORDAINED DEACON CANDIDATES – We thank God for the end of our prayerful search for the next 2024-2025 class of servants for ordained office. Last Sunday, you received a handout of the candidates. *If you have not received the handout, pick one up at the welcoming table and their candidacy profile is also on the wallboard. We ask the congregation – all the covenant partners – all who call Hosanna their spiritual home – to enter into a period of prayer for the candidates for this final week before the vote. *Please do not share the handouts or copy them. *If you are not a Covenant Partner, we encourage you to courageously step into full membership to participate in this historic election and vote for the 2024-2025 class of Ordained Officers (see Elder Heather).
5. *THIS FRIDAY (9/6) AGAPE Life Group, 6:30pm @ location TBA – The young adult AGAPE life group will be gathering for a meal and a time to share life around “Session 2: Philippians 1:12-26.” Pray for our AGAPE ministry of college, postgraduates, and newlyweds, gathering every Friday evening at 6:30pm at various locations, with their shepherd, Elder Patrick Liu, guiding them, as they journey through the letter to the Philippians with leadership coach Jo Saxton.
6. *THIS SATURDAY (9/7) JAMES life group, 4:00pm @ Ezra Chapel – We invite all our adults and families part of the JAMES life group (led by Chong Choe) to this Saturday’s gathering to share life through “Session 2: Time Is Never Lost.” Pray for our shepherd Chong Choe as he guides this precious family through their study on “Faith, Doubt and God’s Mysterious Timing: 30 Biblical Insights about the Way God Works” with speaker and author Laurie Short.
7. *NEXT SUNDAY (9/8) after-service, CONGREGATIONAL VOTE – Next week, we will postpone our Breakout Discussion Group time after-service and hold a congregational meeting to vote for the new candidates for the office of ordained Deacon. *This is our due diligence and spiritual responsibility as covenant partners and we ask all to take this seriously and reverently before the LORD – for all who are called to build God’s Kingdom at Hosanna. Come ready to cast a vote of “confidence” (meaning, yes I approve and support the candidate) or “no confidence” (meaning, no I disapprove and decline the candidate). *You must mark either option for each candidate. There is no “neutral” option. If there is no marking for one or multiple candidates, your ballot will not be counted. All ballots will be counted and the results given immediately after the vote. Each candidate must receive a 2/3 majority vote to pass candidacy. We sincerely ask for your full participation in this historic election. *Again, if you are not a Covenant Partner, we encourage you to step into full membership to participate (see Elder Heather).
8. *KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – For this final week, our prayers will center on the Deacon candidates, for God’s Kingdom to expand through our new election of His servants.

 
*The Scripture for today is:
 
And the twelve summoned the full number of the disciples and said, “It is not right that we should give up preaching the word of God to serve tables. Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. These they set before the apostles, and they prayed and laid their hands on them. (ACTS 6:2-6)