"SHARING THE RISEN CHRIST TO ALL GENERATIONS"     

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                                    9:30am Sunday Worship          10:45am Bible Study following worship
                        
                                  Lay Leader: Doug Taylor
                                              Cell Phone: 440.281.1261
                                              Email: d.d.t.8433@gmail.com
                                              
                                              Church Phone: 440.236.8900
                                              Church Email: hosannalutheran1@windstream.net  

Making Contacts for Jesus
 
Do your neighbors and co-workers know you are Christian?  How about the person who sells you your coffee or the person who delivers your mail?  Are you attempting to develop a relationship with these people so you can share the Good News of the Gospel with them?  We can give no greater service to Jesus than to be part of rescuing lost souls by sharing the life-saving Gospel.  Jesus commissions us to “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).  God wants “all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1 Timothy 2:4).  We are to be Jesus’ hands, feet, and mouth.  Jesus tells us “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest” (Luke 10:2).  We are the laborers whom Jesus is seeking.
 
God’s plan for His people has always been that we take responsibility for sharing the Good News.  Peter wrote, “Always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1 Peter 3:15).  God blesses us with minds to learn and mouths to speak.  Through the power of the Holy Spirit, God will give us the words and the courage to use them.  Along with most people, we are eager to talk about the weather, sports, economy, or politics, but, as Christians, we have been given the treasure of the Gospel message - something vastly more important to talk about.  Our attitude should be like that of Peter and John, who, when commanded to stop speaking of Christ, said, “We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard” (Acts 4:20).
 
For many, sharing the Gospel is uncomfortable, but do people need Jesus more than we need to be comfortable.  God has placed us among many people who do not know Jesus.  With God’s help, we can become very intentional with our witnessing.  He can open our eyes to opportunities and give us the words to speak.  We may want to consider developing a list of people who do not have a relationship with Jesus.  The people could be in your inner circle of family and friends as well as in your outer circle of relationships.  We can be empowered to witness because the Holy Spirit will guide and direct us.

​EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT FUNDS AVAILABLE
Funds are now available for the 2018-2019 school year to any LCMS youth or adult attending a Lutheran elementary school, middle school, high school, college, university or seminary. If you qualify based on the above enrollment requirements, please send a simple letter of application to Howard Chavalia, c/o Hosanna Lutheran Church. Submission deadline is July 31, 2018. Applications will be reviewed and disbursements made by August 31st. If you have any questions, please contact Howard at hchavalia1@gmail.com or through the church office.
WORD FROM NAOMI'S ROOM:
... the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things— that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children - Titus 2:3-4

LINKS

HARP Mission www.facebook.com/harpmission
www.harpcaldwell.org

Lutheran Church Missouri Synod  http://www.lcms.org
Ohio District, LCMS http://oh.lcms.org/
Thrivent Financial  http://www.thrivent.com

LCMS Foundation  http://www.lcmsfoundation.org/

Our Daily Rest - Cultivating a lifestyle of restfulness and renewal    http://ourdailyrest.net/. 

Life Around the Coffee Cup - Encouragement to fuel the journey -
: http://www.leahheffner.com/ 
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Lutheran Hour Ministries  http://www.lhm.org

 DAILY BIBLE VERSE

TEXT BLESSING MINISTRY

If you would like to be part of the daily
Text Blessing Ministry <TBM><
please text YOUR first and last name to: 440.241.1243
HOSANNA BIBLE STUDIES

10:45am after SUNDAY WORSHIP BIBLE STUDY
  You're invited to join in on a week to week study.

CHILDREN'S BIBLE SCHOOL
  During the worship service, children are invited
to go downstairs for the week's lesson.

7:30am MEN’S SATURDAY MORNING
BIBLE STUDY 
Young and mature men meet on the 3rd Saturday of the month in
the upstairs conference room to learn more about the last book of the
Bible called Revelation. Bring your coffee - donuts or coffeecake
usually find their way to the table! We look forward to seeing you -
and please bring a friend, or two or three!