Order of Service

March 24, 2024

Call to Worship Scripture, Prayer Tiffany Sun
Worship in Song Music and Singing Tiffany Sun
Worship in Fellowship Welcome and Announcements James Lee
Worship in Word Jesus Walked Off The Cross Scott Changchien
Worship in Giving and Response Tithes and Offering Tiffany Sun

Sermon Notes

Title: Jesus Walked Off The Cross

Passage: Luke’s 4:1-13

Announcements

  • Devotional Material: April 2024’s “Living Life” is available at the church office for pickup.
  • Children Congregation:
    1) Today is Palm Sunday, the Children choir will present at the Taiwanese service around 10:30 am and the Mandarin service around 11:30 am.   Please bring the kids to the Choir room at 10 am for rehearsal.
    2) The Easter baptism ceremony will be held on 3/31 from 1-2pm in Children’s Worship Room 201.
  • Passion Week:
    1) From 3/25 to 3/30 (Monday to Saturday), we invite brothers and sisters to participate fast and prayer to remember the Passion of Christ. There will be online prayer meetings from 12:00-12:30pm on 3/26-28 (Tue-Thu) with Zoom ID: 8579569341, PW: 537101.
    2) On 3/29(Fri), the church will host a joint Good Friday service at 8:00pm in the main sanctuary. All fellowships please take a break and join the service with Holy Communion.
  • Easter Baptism (3/31): We would like to invite brothers and sisters that are considering baptism to go through baptism classes in March to prepare for this occasion. Feel free to reach out to your advisors, Pastor Leona, or Pastor Jacky for more details.
  • Church Meeting(4/7) :
    1) The Council Meeting will be hold on 4/7 1:30pm at English Chapel. Pastors, ministers, elders, deacons are all invited to participate.
    2) The Elder Board meeting will be postponed to 4/13. 
  • One Church Day(4/20): It will be held at Live Oak Park from 10:30 am to 3:00 pm on 4/20 (Saturday). Please go to the church’s official website www.efcla.org to fill out the registration form.
  • Main sanctuary LED screen project: The church is upgrading the main sanctuary’s projector to an LED screen for a brighter & better quality display. The project cost approximately $70,000. Please pray for the provision for this project. If you would like to donate to this project, you can mark your offering as– LED SCREENS..
  • Church Lunch Offering: The church lunch is estimated to be $200/ person annually. If you would like to make a special donation for lunch through a check or cash offering, please use the church offering envelope and indicate “lunch” in the memo.
  • Student Ministry Announcement: Student Ministry launches a weekly Sunday School for middle and high school students at 10 AM in Room 109D/E. For inquiries, contact Pastors Leona or Jacky.
  • Upcoming: Holy Communion (4/7)

Prayer Requests

PRAY FOR OUR CHURCH (EFCLA)

  • Pray for the US Church. The percentage of Christians in the US population is declining. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 65% of adults said they were Christians in 2020, compared with 81% in 2001. Pray that God will raise up His church and spread the gospel more enthusiastically, whether to adults or young people, so that the proportion of Christians in the population will stop falling and rebound, and the US will become a country where Christians make up the absolute majority of its population again. 
  • Pray for Outreach Groups. Pray for the members of this spring’s seven outreach groups. Pry that the Lord would grant them unity when preaching the gospel. Ask God to grant joy among them to a degree that the more they serve, the joyful they will be. Pray for the seekers to continue to participate in the outreach groups and ask God to move them to accept Jesus Christ as the Lord of their lives.
  • Pray for the Sick. Pray that the Lord would heal those who are sick and restore their health and strength.
  • Pray for VBS. This year’s VBS training has begun. Nearly 40 people are taking part in the VBS ministry this year. Pray that God will protect these brothers and sisters, give them a burden for souls, receiving training with all their heart, and use them to reach out to local schoolchildren in our VBS in June. Also, the Lord would use them to spread the gospel to schoolchildren and teenagers in our short-term missions to Kyrgyzstan, Taichung, Taiwan, and El Cajon in July.

PRAY FOR THE WORLD

  • Pray for Martinique. Martinique is a territorial collectivity belonging to France, and its head of state is the president of France.  It is 80 kilometers long and 35 kilometers wide and, though it is one of the smallest French territories, it is one of the most densely populated.  Today, people of European and African descent account for most of its population.  Most of the Christian(97% of its population) in Martinique are Catholic, but there is a small evangelical presence.  Many Christians come from dysfunctional families or a background of immorality and drug abuse.  Pray for God to heal families and for the chain of immorality and drug abuse to be broken.  Praise God for the freedom of religion that allows churches to minister freely. 

Faithful Servants

This Week’s Service Next Week
Speaker Scott Changchien Jacky Yang
Presider James Lee Chi Liang
Worship Tiffany Sun Eddie Sun
Ushers Yilin Aragon Yilin Aragon
Midweek Prayer Meeting Jacky Yang Jacky Yang

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