Pentecost

Here are the banners that greeted us as we walked into church today:


Thanks, Julianne!

Pentecost, as you know (ahem!), commemorates the manifestation of the Holy Spirit:

When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.

(Acts 2:1-4)

We observed the "Birthday of the Church" by reading the Gospel in English and, simultaneously, in any other language spoken by a member of the congregation. This year we heard French, Russian, Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, and Chinese. And I'm pretty sure I heard some Tagalog when we did the same thing with the Lord's Prayer. Not too shabby for a little country church in the city.