Happy birthday to the Church!

It has been so wonderful being a part of Vineville Baptist Church and learning all about the seasons of the Church (as a whole). From Advent and holy week, to celebrating Easter for and the Ascension, to this Sunday which is Pentecost - the birthday of the Church.

Pentecost was the day when God breathed his Spirit onto the Apostles and gave the gifts that would allow them to spread the word of Christ throughout the nations. Praise God!

Thank you Lord, for sending Jesus your Son, and for giving us the Holy Spirit to comfort us, to guide us, to teach us and to convict us when we sin so that we may repent.

Happy Birthday to the Church- may we continue to do the good work God has given us to do, until the day our Lord brings us Home.


This was a Hymn we sang this morning, and the words (especially the second verse) mean a lot to us!

Wind Who Makes all Winds That Blow

Joseph Parry, 1879

1. Wind who makes all winds that blow—

gusts that bend the saplings low,

gales that heave the sea in waves,

stirrings in the mind's deep caves—

aim your breath with steady power

on your church, this day, this hour.

Raise, renew the life we've lost,

Spirit God of Pentecost.

2. Fire who fuels all fires that burn—

suns around which planets turn,

beacons marking reefs and shoals,

shining truth to guide our souls—

come to us as once you came;

burst in tongues of sacred flame!

Light and Power, Might and Strength,

fill your church, its breadth and length.

3. Holy Spirit, Wind and Flame,

move within our mortal frame.

Make our hearts an altar pyre.

Kindle them with your own fire.

Breathe and blow upon that blaze

till our lives, our deeds, and ways 

speak that tongue which every land 

by your grace shall understand.