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March 16, 2025

March 16, 2025
Speaker: Rev. Joseph Garfield
Topic: “Letting the Sap Flow”

SCHEDULE
Speaker Rev. Joseph Garfield
Worship Leader Erwin Widiarta
Musician Grace Pohan, Randy Renandya & Hari Rediawan
Usher Hannah Suwargo & Tiana Siddik
Holy Communion  
Slide Operator Fulbert Jong
Sound System Adrian Hartono
Indonesian Svc.  Ev. Mariany Tjing
Toddler Michelle Darmawan & Monica Tanuwidjaja
PreK-K grader
Erika Fataniah & Shelly Sia
1st to 3rd Grade
Lower Elementary
Mariana Oswan & Selina Cheng
4th to 6th Grade
Upper Elementary
Yanny Prasetya
7th to 8th Grade
Pre-Teen
Seniwati Hung
9th – 12th Grade
Teen
Jeh Lin
Pulpit Flower Jerry Sugiarto
Refreshment Maria Joana & Hari Rediawan

WORSHIP ORDER
1.

Prelude

2.

Call to Worship

3.

Congregational Singing: The Lord will Provide 

4.

**Opening prayer 

5.

Congregational Singing: Do it Again” & “Surrounded
6.

**Intercessory Prayer (Sunday School children may go to their class)

7.

Scripture Reading: John 15:4 – 6

8.

Congregational Singing: “Lord, I Give You my Heart”

9. 

Sermon: “Letting the Sap Flow”
10.

Offering Song: “Stand in Your Love”

11.

Offering Prayer

12.

Memory Verse: John 15:5

13.

Announcement

14.

Doxology

15.

Benediction
16.

Congregational Response: “Amen, Amen

17.

Postlude

   
   

** Please speak quietly while waiting outside and enter the room after the prayer ends.

MEMORY VERSE

“I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

John 15:5

WEEKLY BIBLE READING
Sunday       : 1 Corinthians 7 – 8 Thursday : Job 23 – 24
Monday      : Genesis 44 – 47 Friday      : Isaiah 62 – 66
Tuesday      : 1 Samuel 6 – 10 Saturday  : Mark 3 – 4
Wednesday : Psalms 33 – 35  

Fellowship Schedule 
Date Fellowship Topik Speaker Place
Wed.
Mar. 19
Prayer Meeting
7:00 PM
Short Message Ev. Glenn Sebastian
MC: Riawati Woen
Music: Rini S. Lie
Church
191 E Gish Road
San Jose, CA 95112
Fri.
Mar. 21
Young Adult
7:30 PM
Unanswered Prayers 

Stephen Arjanto

Church
191 E Gish Road
San Jose, CA 95112

ANNOUNCEMENT
1.

Welcome to our Sunday service. If you are first time joining us, welcome! Hope you will join us again next week. Please invite your family and friends to join our Sunday service or fellowship so that they may hear the word of God and be blessed. 

2.

Praise the Lord! The total mission pledge received has exceeded the target by $4,972.50. Thank you to everyone who have supported it. God bless!

3.

Our condolences for the passing of Jap Chatherine Yuliana (86 years old), the older sister of Mr. Daniel Atmadja in Jakarta on March 13. May God comfort and strengthen the grieving family.

4.

This year’s church picnic is a combined picnic with IEC San Francisco which will be held on Saturday, May 3 from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm at Lake Elizabeth Park in Fremont (Lions 1 & Lions 2 area). More details will be announced at a later time. Please pray for this event and start thinking about inviting new friends to attend.

5.

The church financial report for the month of July – December 2024 has been posted on the bulletin board. Please contact our treasurer should you have questions.

6. 

Local mission trip to Fresno “Gleanings Summer Season” will be held on July 27 – August 1. Participants are open to teenagers (7th graders) – adults with a maximum of 20 people. With the church subsidy, the cost is $100 per person (covers lodging, meals and transportation for the 5 working days). Deadline to register is April 13. We will have an info session next Sunday, March 23, on the second floor at 11:45am. For questions/ registrations, please contact Erni (408-707-0621), Seni (408-598-1858), or Ev. Glenn (510-219-1894).

7. 

We would like to ask your cooperation to not bring any food/drinks into the worship room or leave any leftover food/drinks anywhere else, but please discard them in the trash bin near the entrance or in the kitchen. Do not throw them in the trash bins in the toilets downstairs or upstairs.

PRAYER ITEMS FOR THE WEEK:
1.

Ministry: pastors, deacons, committees, Sunday School teachers, music/choir, Bible Study groups, headquarter church in New Jersey as well as the West Coast churches.

2.

Congregation: the sick or recovering, the pregnant (Rina, Sisca, Kimberly & Joy), those seeking employment and faith/spiritual growth. 

3.

World: Russia – Ukraine war, persecution/murder of Christians in Syria, Congo and several other places. 

4.

Country: Indonesia and the U.S. (the leaders in an effort to prosper their people with economic stability).