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This year South Arm United Church is engaged in a Visioning process to seek God's guidance on whom we are called to be and how we might better open our doors to serve our neighbours (and the world). As part of that visioning we want to honour the past, taking the best of who we are into the future. Acknowledging the deep roots and living history of the church that formed who we are today, we want to honour those stories, sing some old hymns and name how much the church has evolved since its' founding in 1906. Today's special service does just that. Not your typical service or podcast episode.

Music played throughout are primarily from The United Church Hymnals:

"Then Let Us Sing" Copyright The United Church of Canada, 2025.

"More Voices" Copyright The United Church of Canada, 2007.

"Voices United" Copyright The United Church of Canada, 1996.

Music Licensing registered for our church under: One License A-607425 & CCLI 2453477

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This Sunday we celebrate Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit to the followers of Jesus. Pentecost (meaning "50" is 50 days from Passover). And Pentecost happens under very specific circumstances. People pilgrimaged to Jerusalem from all across the Roman Empire for the Festival of Weeks (commemorating the wheat harvest and the giving of the Law to Moses on Mt. Sinai). This gathering of diverse people spoke Greek because of the empire but their native language would have been from the region they were from. So when tongues settle on the disciples and they begin to speak the Word of God in the various languages, people are taken aback. And out of this, Peter preaches, many come to believe and the church as we know it today begun. And out of this we know that we also who have been baptized and become part of God''s beloved are also gifted the Holy Spirit to continue the work of God in the world. Attached to this week's notes is a map showing the various regions people travelled from in order to be part of this festival and the Pentecost experience.

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Today we get to hear Jesus offer a prayer to the One he called Father. This prayer from the heart asks that we may be one in unity with God and God's call on our lives, as the Trinity is in their own, 3-in-1 relationship.