Confirmation Sunday/Pentecost: Who is Speaking and Who is Listening?

Join us this Sunday at 10:00 am as we celebrate Pentecost Sunday. This day is a special one as we not only commemorate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus Christ, but also celebrate confirmation Sunday. Our scripture for the day will be Acts 2:2-21, a passage that beautifully encapsulates the essence of Pentecost.

In celebration of Confirmation Sunday, we invite you to stay after worship. We will be having a reception with cake for the confirmands. Please make sure you wear the colors of fire (orange, red, yellow) to make this Confirmation Sunday/Pentecost even more special.

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.2 And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. 3 Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. 4 All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. 

5 Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem. 6 And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. 7 Amazed and astonished, they asked, “Are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each of us, in our own native language? 9 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs—in our own languages we hear them speaking about God’s deeds of power.” 12 All were amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “What does this mean?” 13 But others sneered and said, “They are filled with new wine.”