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Sunday Worship: Pentecost Sunday - Creator Spirit

Pentecost Sunday - Creator Spirit

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, Pentecost Sunday - Creator Spirit

A reflection for Pentecost Sunday, led by the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley.

A reflection for Pentecost Sunday, exploring the creator spirit, led by the Rev Dr Stephen Wigley, from the Amelia Trust Farm, part of the mission of the Methodist Church in Wales.

‘When you send forth your spirit they are created, and you renew the face of the earth.’ Psalm.104.30.

On this Pentecost Sunday, Revd Dr Stephen Wigley, Chair of Wales Synod Cymru of the Methodist Church, leads a service of prayer and reflection from the Amelia Trust Farm in Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales.  The farm forms part of the mission of the Methodist Church in Wales, providing therapeutic support to disadvantaged and vulnerable people.  

Pentecost Sunday marks the celebration of the gift of God’s Holy Spirit in the birth of the church as a new community born by his Spirit.  From the surroundings of the farm, including a woodland walk, animal pastures and a prayer labyrinth, Stephen and members of the farm community reflect on the work of the Amelia Trust as a care farm, and explore how Pentecost can mark not only the birth of the church, but the ongoing renewal of the face of the earth in the here and now, offering new life and hope to those who find things hard.

Music includes hymns, songs and anthems ranging from The Heavens are Telling (Haydn's Creation) to Al Green's ‘The Spirit might come’.

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