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Sunday School:
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Office Hours:
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Pentecost

Celebrated on the fiftieth day after Easter, Pentecost commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles in Jerusalem. Pentecost comes from a Jewish harvest festival called Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks). The apostles were celebrating this festival when the Holy Spirit descended on them. It sounded like a very strong wind, and it looked like tongues of fire. The apostles then found themselves speaking in foreign languages, inspired by the Holy Spirit. The Biblical story of Pentecost is found in Acts 2.

The image of the tongues of fire that symbolizes the Holy Spirit inspired the United Methodist cross and flame emblem.

Pentecost Sunday, the seventh Sunday after Easter, is one of the greatest mission festivals of the Christian year.  Pentecost is also linked to baptism and rebirth in Christ. In many congregations, individuals confess their faith and join the church on Pentecost.

Methodism's founders, John and Charles Wesley, published a small collection of Pentecost poems and hymns that celebrated God's presence and love.1  "United Methodists, heirs of the Wesleyan witness and zeal, are today servants of God's Spirit in expanding God's love around the earth. . . . as we celebrate the birthday of the Church, as we remember our baptisms, and as we rejoice in the presence of God through the Holy Spirit, let us also commit ourselves to become stronger mission witnesses to God's new-created world of grace and love."2

To learn more, click here to visit the CRI/Voice Institute webpage on Pentecost