Flames of Fire

The music group with coloured clothes

Today – Pentecost Sunday – the anniversary of the Birth Day of the church – the day when the Holy Spirit fell upon the first disciples with what looked like flames of fire and all the crowd around heard what they were speaking in their own language. In celebration the congregation was encouraged to come to church today in brightly coloured clothes. Many people did so, so there were red, yellow and orange shirts, sweaters and saris all around the church. Many of our young people formed our music group and they took this very much to heart.


Singing in Portuguese

The theme of the different languages was also taken up as the children sung a song in Portuguese and when it came to the Lord’s Prayer, the different lines were said by different members of the congregation in their own languages.

The service was led by Angie and in her sermon, Lou took up the importance of bringing the good news of Christ’s forgiveness to everyone, not just people like us.                                                                                                                                                                                

Then the Spirit Came

Last Sunday was Pentecost – 50 days after Passover and Christ’s death. It was a harvest festival for the Jews and people had come from all over the known world. It was then that the Holy Spirit, the comforter, that Jesus had promised fell on the disciples, who preached the good news in words that all the assembled worshippers could understand. 3000 people became believers in Christ that day. It has been called the birthday of the church.

So, we celebrated with new banners and words and liturgy and the sermon by Karen that reminded us of those marvellous events.

May we know the power of the Holy Spirit in our church and in all our lives in the coming year.