St. John’s young parishioners have given of their time in learning the parts of the liturgy, writing the homily and prayers, and preparing the church for worship in the hopes that they might share their experience of God who is very much alive in their generation. After all, that is what Pentecost is all about!

Mr. Echel Edens was our guest youth preacher and had this to say about the Day of Pentecost –

I recently graduated from high school in New Zealand and in school there were many different groups to belong to and labels to have. You may be a jock a nerd or geek, or you could even be one of the cool kids. To belong to these groups, people must change the way they act and dress, perhaps even their beliefs, to fit in, to seem the same as the person next to them. Often to highlight their uniformity, they would criticise others differences. This happened to me at school a lot, partly because my group of friends never really fit in anywhere, but especially because I was a Christian. Did I choose to be a Christian? Well, Yes and No . . . Read entire sermon here

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