Rev. Ryan's Weekly Reflection

This past Sunday we celebrated Pentecost Sunday! It was a great day to wear our colours (red & orange) and rejoice in the reality that the Spirit of Jesus, who came to the first group of Jesus-followers 2000 years ago, still comes to us and abides with us today! We took heed of Peter's famous sermon from Acts chapter 2 and wrote down and shared our own words of encouragement, our visions and our dreams for one another and for Altadore Church. See the Church bulletin board in the gymnasium (on the south wall) and be encouraged and inspired. Feel free to fill out your own "foam board picture-message" and pin it to the bulletin board during the long Christian Year season that lays ahead of us (named the "Season after Pentecost" or "Ordinary Time").

Be encouraged and inspired by the Pentecost Prayer below:

"Loving God
open our hearts
so that we may feel the breath and play of your Spirit.
Unclench our hands
so that we may reach out to one another,
and touch and be healed.
Open our lips
that we may drink in the delight and wonder of life.
Unstop our ears
to hear your agony in our inhumanity.
Open our eyes,
so that we may see Christ in friend and stranger.
Breathe your Spirit into us,
and touch our lives with the life of Christ."