Order of Service

May 8, 2022

Call to Worshih  Scripture, Prayer Eddie Sun
Worship in Song  Music and Singing Eddie Sun
Worship in Fellowship  Welcome and  Announcements
Worship in Word The Pleasure of God Charlotte Lin
Worship in Giving and Response  Tithes and Offering Eddie Sun

Sermon Notes

Title: The Pleasure of God

Passage: Ephesians 5: 8-10

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) 10 and find out what pleases the Lord.

Mommy’s Pleasure

God is pleased if you                                     

God is pleased when you                                            

God is pleased with                                       

Announcements

  1. Mother’s Day: After the service, lunch boxes will be served. 12:30pm we invite all the church families to take pictures with the mothers in the photo booths set in the courtyard. The picture will be printed on a mug cup and sent to every mother as a gift afterwards.
  2. Children’s Congregation:
    1) Today there will be a photo booth set up in the courtyard from 12:30-1:30pm. Children and parents are invited to come and take pictures.
    2) Hiring child caregivers for Friday, Saturday evenings, and Sunday morning as a paid job.
    3) 5/15 (Sun) from 12:45-2:00pm CC will host Summer Quarter Sunday School teacher and helper train-ing and 5/22 (Sun) from 12:45-2:30pm CC will host VBS and short-term mission team training both on the 2nd floor of CC Building. Please contact Children’s Director Ruth (ext.16) for details. 
  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. 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 $2,395. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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 (6/5)

Prayer Requests

Pray for Our Church (EFCLA)

  • Pray for Happiness Group.  Pray that the Holy Spirit would work in the hearts of the ten plus BESTs, so that the BESTs would open their hearts to accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior.
  • Pray for Summer Bible School VBS in June.  Pray for our planning and promotion of VBS from 6/13-17.  Pray that the Lord will attract more children to sign up for VBS, and help children establish correct beliefs through VBS activities. Pray that the Lord will prepare enough co-workers and all the resources needed to make the preparation work smoothly.
  • Pray for the Sick.  Pray for Pastor Benson Wang, and 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.  Up to date, there are forty people signing up for Global 6k, and nearly $3,000 raised. Pray for people who signing up for this campaign.
  • Pray for peace between generations.  The divisions and conflicts between generations are growing. Let us pray together that people will not argue and exclude each other because of differences in ideas or ways of thinking, but empathize and respect each other. We also pray for the rulers, so that they will not fuel the antagonism and conflict of the people for their own interests and goals, but to maintain peace between generations.

Faithful Servants

  Today       Next Sunday
Speaker Charlotte Lin Jacky Yang
Presider James Lee
Worship Eddie Sun Arthur Au
Ushers Mother’s Day
Joint Service
10:30am		 Li Chen
Patricia Ho /
Debora Shih
Prayer Meeting Arthur Au

Your Faithful Participation

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