Worship Service – June 08, 2025 Pentecost Sunday

Pentecost Sunday – Worship Service – June 08, 2025

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Christian Lesson: Acts 2:1 – 18

This Sunday, Holy Covenant gathered in the spirit of Pentecost to celebrate the wild, wondrous movement of God’s Spirit — a Spirit that shows up in “strange places, at unexpected times, and uses unlikely people,” as Bishop Yvette Flunder reminds us. Guest preacher Rev. Melissa McQueen-Simmons led us in a service filled with sacred disruption, radical welcome, and communal renewal.

The sanctuary was alive with fire and breath: from the Introit “Like the Murmur of a Dove’s Song” to the shared affirmation, “God accepts us exactly as we are, in all our beauty, pride, and love.” Our reading from Acts 2:1–18 invited us to listen deeply as the Holy Spirit poured out among “all humankind.” As scripture declared:
“They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages as she enabled them.” (Acts 2:4)

Rev. Melissa’s message, poetry, and prayer illuminated the Spirit’s call to gather, to breathe together, and to speak words “strange to our ears” — not for comfort, but for transformation. In music, in silence, and in shared blessing, we remembered that Pentecost is not a one-time miracle, but an ongoing movement of liberation and love.

Let us continue to move with that Spirit, together.