World-Wide Pentecost Friends
8 June 2022
Shin-dig. Gala. Party. Festival. Big to-do.
What colorful term would you choose to describe our wonderful Pentecost Sunday at COS this past weekend? We chose to call it “Homecoming: A Service of Return.” Indeed, how awesome it was to have so many faith friends who had been disconnected because of Covid craziness come to worship and fellowship together! Just like the first Pentecost when God gathered everybody from different nations together in Jerusalem and then released the power of the Holy Spirit upon them, we celebrated how we are better together, gathered with our Triune God and each other. Home. Faith. Community. Values. Purpose. Hope. Strength. Future.
Outstanding music, decorations, hospitality, singing children, worship, and refreshments. Thanks to all who made it an outstanding day.
While it was a chance for Georgia friends to reconnect, it was also a chance for some Lutheran pastors to reconnect. Gathered from 19 countries for two weeks in Wittenberg, Germany, in a special Lutheran World Federation study program in 2019, we were then sent by the Spirit back to our local congregations. But with Covid forcing us to figure out recording messages on our phones, Pentecost was an occasion to “re-assemble” our voices as we declared the Apostles Creed together, each in our own language in honor of that very first Pentecost in Jerusalem.
Many of you asked to see it again. So here is the clip, just about 90 seconds long: