Order of Service

December 19, 2021

Call to Worship  Scripture, Prayer
Worship in Song  Music and Singing
Worship in Fellowship  Welcome and  Announcements
Worship in Word  Sola Christo Benson Wang
Worship in Giving and Response  Tithes and Offering

Sermon Notes

Title: Sola Christo

Passage: John 3:16-19

Christmas is all about vacation, party, and gifts, right?

  1. Skip the Baby/Christ?
  2. Only the Baby/Christ!
  3. Spread the Baby/Christ!

Christ Jesus is the only reason for Christmas. No matter how the world would regard Christmas, we would only spread Christ.

Announcements

  1. Winter Retreat 2021:
    1) Late registration is due by Today. Registration form: https://tinyurl.com/HLA2021WR.
    2) For those who already signed up, please bring the check to our registrar Jimmy or Zelle to the church account with a memo “Winter Retreat”.
    3) The Sunday worship service on 1/2/2022 will be live-streamed from the retreat site from 10am.
  2. Free Calendar: Care department has printed the calendars for the year 2022 as a gift to our church family. Please pick up one for each household after Christ-mas Sunday joint worship service Today.
  3. Christmas Celebration:
    1) Christmas Mini Carnival will take place at 12pm in the parking lot following the service Today.
    2) 12/24 (Fri) there will be a candlelight service at 7pm in the main sanctuary. Dinner will be served in the fellowship hall at 6pm. Please invite your family and friends to come and celebrate Jesus’ birth.
  4. Construction: Praise the Lord! The renovated bathrooms in the main sanctuary and English chapel are available for use. We are now short of nearly $6,000 for the total expense. Please continue to pray and support this project with “Building” in the memo.
  5. Reimbursement: If any coworker or fellowship has prepaid expenses for the church, please bring the receipts to the department elders ASAP be-fore clos-ing accounting books at the end of the fiscal year.
  6. Mailbox: Next year there will be a rearrangement for the mailbox in the Pasto-ral Office. Please take away everything from the box by today. Thank you for your cooperation.
  7. Expanded Council Meeting (1/9): EFCLA’s expanded council meeting will be held on 1/9/2022 at 1:30 pm at the English chapel. For all pastors, zone pastors, staff, elders, deacons, advisors, chairmen, and small group leaders, please re-serve your time for this meeting.

Upcoming: Winter Retreat (12/31/2021-1/2/2022); Holy Communion (1/2/2022); Coworker Installation (1/9/2022)

Prayer Requests

Pray for Our Church (EFCLA)

  • Pray for Harvest Winter Retreat. Pay for the preparation of the Harvest Winter Retreat.  Pray that the Lord would watch the safety of the retreat, and increase the bonding of people through this retreat.
  • Pray for Baptism. Pray for Sister Yi Zheng, receiving her baptism in the Mandarin service of 12/26. Pray that the Lord would strengthen her faith through the following disciple’s training.  Also, pray that the Lord would bless her family because of her faith in the Lord.
  • Pray for the Sick. Pray for those who are sick. Pray that the Lord would heal them and restore their health.

Pray for the world

  • Pray for COVID-19. Pray that both the daily new cases and the daily death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe would subside soon. Pray that people would wear masks except at home.
  • Pray for Malawi. Sex trafficking cases have been increased in Malawi since the pandemic.  In 2020, People Serving Girls at Risk (PSGR), an NGO serving at-risk populations, handled triple the number of cases compared to the previous year.  Most victims come from poor families and are lured by the false promise of better education and employment.  Pray for breakthroughs to be made in the fight against sex trafficking and for the victims to find hope in Christ.

Faithful Servants

   Today – Christmas Joint  Service      Next Sunday
Speaker  Benson Wang  Eddie Sun
Presider  Emily Doo
Worship  Joel Lee
Ushers Timothy Wu / Christopher Liu
Prayer Meeting James Lee

Your Faithful Participation

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