What is Pentecost?
Pentecost is from a Greek word meaning 50. It was a Jewish holiday held 50 days after Passover to give thanks for harvested crops. For Christians Pentecost celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit 40 days after Easter and is considered the birthday of the Christian church.
Before Jesus was crucified, he promised his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come to them.
John 14:16-18 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you an Advocate to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans, I will come to you.
And 40 days after Jesus was resurrected that promise was fulfilled when Peter and the earlier followers were in Jerusalem for the celebration of Pentecost.
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and filled the entire house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2: 1-4
On May 31, the Sunday School classes celebrated the Church’s birthday (Pentecost) with a party complete with party hats, games, crafts and songs. We ended the celebration decorating cupcakes and singing “Happy Birthday” to the Church.
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