Object:
a piece of red cloth material (or red crepe paper) to
give to each child
Good morning, boys and girls. Do you know whose birthday it is
today? (Let them try to answer.) Today is the birthday of the New
Testament church. We Christians call it Pentecost Sunday. It is
the day that Jesus' disciples received the Holy Spirit from God.
When Jesus ascended to heaven he told the disciples to wait for
something from God. This is what they waited for.
I want to tell how the first Pentecost day happened. It
happened in the morning when the disciples were together.
Suddenly from heaven came a sound like the rush of a violent