June 04th, 2017 Worship Service
Leader: Come, sing a new song of worship.
People: Come, sing a new song of praise.
Leader: Today is a day of a promise fulfilled.
People: With joy we celebrate Pentecost.
Leader: Pentecost – a day when power and comfort flowed.
People: Pentecost – a day of hope and inspiration.
Leader: A day when the Holy Spirit was revealed in flaming glory
People: and the glory was given to the people.
Leader: The fire of the Holy Spirit lives on in us. Sing praises!
People: We sing praises, indeed!
Greetings Dr. David Chigurupati
Worship Songs in English & Telugu UECF Choir
Sermon Pastor Stanley Joseph
Offertory
*Doxology
Offertory Prayer Pastor Stanley Joseph
*Closing Hymn ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’ UMH#526
*Closing Prayer & Benediction Pastor Stanley Joseph
ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Thanks to Pastor Stanley Joseph for ministering to us today.
- Next week Pastor Joseph Theophilus will bring the Word of God.
- Father’s Day will be celebrated on Sunday, June 18th. Rev. Dr. David Ravinder will bring the Word of God on July 18th and July 25th.
- Bro. Deevanaiah will bring the Word of God on July 2nd.
- Rev. Dr. T. D. Prasanna Kumar will bring the Word of God on Sunday, July 16th.
- Memorial Service for Late Mr. Krupa Rao Mattegunta will be held on June 25th after the worship service.
- Today’s Fellowship Hour is hosted by UECF.
- Please sign-up the Fellowship Roster if you would like to volunteer to host the Fellowship Coffee Hour.
June | 4 UECF | 11 SHAIKs | 18 Women | 25 UECF | |
July | 2 UECF Families | 9 | 16 Families | 23 | 30 |
Birthdays:
- Mrs. Kalyani Mettegunta 06th June
- Mr. Sanjay Bhaskar 08th June
- Emmanuel Dhara 09th June
- Mayah Shaik 09th June
- Jason Moodey 09th June
- Deepthi Borugadda 10th June
- Rev. David Davis 10th June
- Samuel Maddela 11th June
Anniversaries:
- Mrs. Satya & Mr. David Aligya 10th June
About Rev. Stanley Joseph
Pastor Stanley Joseph is a Pastor at Pentecostal Church of God India, Clifton, N.J. He did his High School in Kuwait and MBA in India and B.Th in Trinity International University, U.S.A. He is married with his wife Mrs. Esther and blessed with two children David and Blessy.
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Pentecost
Pentecost (the Fiftieth [day]) is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ. The feast is also called Whitsun, Whitsunday, Whit Sunday, or Whitsuntide, especially in the United Kingdom. Pentecost is celebrated seven weeks (50 days) after Easter Sunday, hence its name Pentecost falls on the tenth day after Ascension Thursday.
Pentecost is historically and symbolically related to the Jewish harvest festival of Shavuot, which commemorates God giving the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai fifty days after the Exodus. Among Christians, Pentecost commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and other followers of Jesus as described in the New Testament Acts of the Apostles 2:31 during these Jewish "fiftieth day" celebrations in Jerusalem. For this reason, Pentecost is sometimes described as the "Birthday of the Church".
Traditional interpretation holds that the Descent of the Holy Spirit took place in the Upper Room, or Cenacle while celebrating Shavuot, first mentioned in Luke 22:12 & 13 ( "And he shall shew you a large upper room furnished: there make ready. And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.") ; the location of the Last Supper(Seder). The next mention of an Upper Room is in Acts, the continuation of the Luke narrative, authored by the same biblical writer. Here the disciples and women wait and pray for the "baptism of the Holy Ghost" promised by Jesus:"And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James. These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren." It is assumed then that in Acts 2, "And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place", "they" refers to the aforementioned disciples and women; the "place" referring to the same Upper Room where these persons had "continued with one accord in prayer and supplication"
Other scholarship suggests the events of the first Pentecost recorded in the New Testament Book of Acts took place at the Temple Court located south and south-west of the Temple Mount, an area excavated by Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar shortly after the Israeli conquest of East Jerusalem in 1967. In the Jerusalem Christian Review, Dan Mazar wrote about the archaeological discoveries made at this location by his grandfather, Prof. Mazar, which included the first century stairs of ascent, where Jesus and his disciples preached, as well as the "mikvaot" (or baptismals) used by the "three thousand" who were baptized on the day of Pentecost, according to the Book of Acts.
In Italy it was customary to scatter rose petals from the ceiling of the churches to recall the miracle of the fiery tongues; hence in Sicily and elsewhere in Italy Whitsunday is called Pasqua rosatum. The Italian name Pasqua rossa comes from the red colours of the vestments used on Whitsunday. In France it was customary to blow trumpets during Divine service, to recall the sound of the mighty wind which accompanied the Descent of the Holy Spirit.
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