Order of Service

April 24, 2022

Call to Worship  Scripture, Prayer Joel Lee
Worship in Song  Music and Singing Joel Lee
Worship in Fellowship  Welcome and  Announcements Emily Doo
Worship in Word  Who is the boss? Antonia Hwang
Worship in Giving and Response  Tithes and Offering Joel Lee

Sermon Notes

Title: Who is the boss?

Passage: Jonah 1:1-17

1. The calling
2. The running away
3. The messed up
4. The fix up
5. The mission completed

Announcements

  1. May Devotional Materials: Brothers and sisters who have subscribed to “Living Life”, please pick it up at the church office.
  2. Children’s Congregation:
    1) Now recruiting one Sunday school teacher for 2nd and 3rd grade class for Summer quarter (Jun-Aug).
    2) Hiring child caregivers for Friday, Saturday evenings, and Sunday morning as a paid job. Please contact Children’s Di-rector Ruth (ext.16) for details.
    3) On 5/8 Mother’s Day, there will be photo booth set up in the courtyard from 12:30-1:30pm. All church families are invited to come and take pictures.
  3. Student Ministries:
    1) In order to cast out visions of HarvestLA student ministry and have mutual understandings and shared expectations, we would like to invite parents to come and join us for a meaningful meeting on 5/15 (Sun) from 1:00-2:30pm at English Chapel. Please mark your calendar and attend the meeting.
    2) We are also planning a leadership conference for all our students on 6/11 (Sat) from 10am to 3pm with lunch provided. Our church is called to raise leaders and make disciples. We would love to see the younger generation getting more involved in various aspects of our church ministries. More details to come so please stay tuned.
  4. Mission Department: Now recruiting short-term (7/22-8/1) mission team to South-eastern European country Serbia to host Children’s VBS. Please contact Mission Pas-tor Scott (ext.12) for registration.
  5. Fundraising for Ukrainian Refugees: Thanks to all our sisters and brothers for sup-porting this fundraiser. We have reached and exceeded the goal with the amount of $12,152.96. The church will donate the total amount through the Universal Abundance Center for Life (GLEC) in their Eastern European Humanitarian Aid Program.
  6. Charity Road Run Fundraising Event: World Vision will host the Global 6K for Water charity road run fundraiser for countries that lack clean water sources. It will be held at Rosemead Park at 9:00 am on 5/21 (Sat). The church will participate under the name of the EFCLA team with team leader Pastor Johnson Hsieh and the goal is to raise $2,000. Currently raised $1,290. Registration fee per person is $50 (including T-shirt) and direct sponsorship is also possible without running. Please register at global6k.worldvision.org/team/efcla.
  7. Recruitment: The church has an urgent need to hire a facility manager to be responsible for our church campus. If you are interested, please contact Lydia Wang (Huil-ing@efcla.org). Brothers and sisters are welcome to recommend good candidates and keep this in your prayers. Thank you.
  8. Hospitality: We now need more church families to join the welcome team to greet and serve new friends. Please contact Chi or Charlene if you can serve as ushers. Thank you!

Upcoming: Holy Communion (5/1)

Prayer Requests

Pray for Our Church (EFCLA)

  • Pray for Happiness Group. Pray that BESTs would join the special week (the fourth meeting) of Happiness Group. Pray that those ten some BESTs would soon accept Christ.
  • Pray for Student Ministries. Pray for the Chinese and English student advisers. Pray that through their ministries, students would grow in their knowledge of God, undergird their faith in Christ, and have a burden in sharing the gospel. Let the Lord raise up a student minister for us.
  • Pray for the Sick. Pray for those who are sick or infected. Pray that the Lord would heal them and restore their health. 

Pray for the world

  • Pray for Global 6K. Pray that we may successfully collect over two thousand dollars by May 21. Pray that the Lord would raise up more people to join this campaign this year. Pray that through this campaign people in Africa would experience love from God through Christians’ benevolent move.
  • Pray for Comoros. Comoros is a small island off Africa’s east coast with a population of less than a million inhabitants, out of which about 4,200 identify as Christian. Christians are pressured to keep their faith private because they face legal consequences if they share their faith with others. While foreigners are free to practice whichever faith they desire, locals are not given that freedom. Pray for God to strengthen and add to the number of Christians in Comoros.

Faithful Servants

  Today       Next Sunday
Speaker Antonia Hwang Scott Changchien
Presider Emily Doo Jacky Yang
Worship Joel Lee Joel Lee
Ushers TBA
Timothy Wu / Jeremy Chuang
Jennifer Sun
Charlene Hsu / Stephanie Sun
Prayer Meeting Scott Changchien Jacky Yang

Your Faithful Participation

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