Pentecost Celebration

Today we celebrated Pentecost at Church. The Christian feast of Pentecost (from the Greek word pentekoste, meaning fiftieth) is celebrated fifty days after Easter and ten days following the Ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. It is also call Whitsunday (White Sunday) in some churches, because of the white baptism garments worn by those who are to be baptised.
It commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit into the lives of the disciples as related in the Bible, in the Book of Acts, Chapter 2, verses 1 - 6.


The coming of the Holy Spirit into the lives of the disciples so strengthened them that they were said to have baptized three thousand people that day. Pentecost is thus known as the "birthday of the Church", because it was the presence and power of God, the Holy Spirit, that transformed them so.



We celebrate with lively worship & hymns, balloons, pinwheels for the kids, kites, and dove or balloon releases, also cake and treats following the service.
Here are some photos from today's celebration at our Church. Many were taken by my daughter, KaseyK Photo.
A few were taken by me.