9/15/2024 Sunday Announcements

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! 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. ****CONGRATULATIONS, APPROVED CANDIDATES for ORDINATION! – Thank you for casting your sacred vote last week. Praise be to God for His answer in choosing our four new Deacon candidates for ordination – Deacon Chong Choe, Deaconess Gloria Gee, Deacon Waywah Gee, and Deaconess Angela Jeon-Huh. We will have a sacred time of ordination and installation for our new officers on 9/29 (Sunday) during our worship service. Pray for them and support them!
4. ****RETURNING TODAY after-service BREAKOUT DISCUSSION GROUPS – It is beautiful to see intentional gatherings of smaller groups with new faces, across life stages, making new godly connections, nurturing godly unity, and speaking the Word of God to one another. We’re bringing it back today! After-service, gather with your same number on the bottom of the sermon note-page. Spend 15 to 20 minutes discussing the breakout discussion question. *Remember our threefold purpose! (1) To be intentional in gathering across life stages and with new faces to nurture godly unity, character, and compassion; (2) To be a breakthrough help for one another to piece together, internalize, digest, and live out the seed of God’s Word planted; (3) To be a stepping-stone into midweek Life Group ministry to advance godly accountable relationships.
5. *KITCHEN MINISTRY – Thank you for the servants who have helped this ministry. Today at 12:40pm, we conclude our service with dishwashing.
6. *1ST ANNIVERSARY PHOTO-VIDEO CELEBRATION – The Media Team is creating our 1st anniversary photo-video celebration to be shown on Hosanna’s 1-year anniversary (9/22). They are asking for photos of memories and blessed events from the past year. Send them to [email protected]. Thank you!
7. *THIS FRIDAY (9/20) 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 “The Letter to the Philippians.” We welcome you to join 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.
8. *****NEXT SUNDAY (9/22) 1ST ANNIVERSARY JOINT FAMILY WORSHIP! – Church, congratulations on turning 1-years-old! Next Sunday, Elder Han will be here to give congratulatory remarks from Bethany Korean Church, the Media team will have a special video picture compilation of our first year, Stella Choe is getting baptized, a gift of a Hosanna t-shirt awaits you, and we’ll be a giving community by serving our entire family of churches (Bethany & Hosanna) rice-cakes. Let us celebrate and worship with joy in the Lord who has birthed our church!
9. **NEXT SUNDAY (9/22) MEETINGS – (1) Staff will meet for their monthly meeting at 1:15pm in the Office; (2) FALL PICNIC CREW will meet at 1:15pm in the Corner Conference Room to begin preparations for the picnic.
10. *KINGDOM EXPANSION PRAYER – Our prayers will continue to center on the approved Deacon candidates for ordination and Hosanna’s 1st anniversary, for God’s Kingdom to expand through His church into the second year of life.

 
*The Scripture for today is:
 
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you. Practice these things, immerse yourself in them, so that all may see your progress. Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. (1 TIMOTHY 4:13-16, esv)
 
Prayer by Pastor Chester:
Our Father in heaven,
Thank You for appointing Your choice servants – Deacons and Elders – to lead Your church together. Not that they chose You, but You chose them and appointed them for this time. More than the spiritual gifts they possess or the areas of ministry they serve, may they be known for the character of Christ they uphold to imitate and represent Jesus well. May they devote themselves to the reading of Scripture, to being taught by it and to teach one another, to not neglect the gift they’ve been given, but practice the things they learn with the holy Spirit so that all may see their progress in faith. Raise them to be dignified, not two-faced, not heavy drinkers, not greedy, holding on to the faith that has been revealed with a clear conscience, tested and found without fault, not gossipers, sober-minded, faithful to their spouse and stewardship of their children in their households. Help them persist in Your godliness so that by being examples to the flock, salvation might come upon their household and all those who hear about them. Thank you for these approved candidates who will take Hosanna into a new year of Your harvest, through their Chief Shepherd, risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen & amen.