Baltimore Pentecost 2024

Joint Service

Welcome
Lana Gorbacheva, Gallery Church

Genesis 11:1-9 in Spanish
Justin Kuk, City Harbor Church

  1. Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.
  2. As people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

  3. They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar.
  4. Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

  5. But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building.
  6. The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.
  7. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

  8. So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
  9. That is why it was called Babel—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Worship
Melissa and Trevor Chin, Hopeville

Prayer in French
Lydia Thomas, Foundry Church

Acts 2:1-13 in Mandarin
Catherine Yang, Gallery Church

  1. When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
  2. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.
  3. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.
  4. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.

  5. Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
  6. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken.
  7. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans?
  8. Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?
  9. Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
  10. Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome
  11. (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!”
  12. Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?”

  13. Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

Prayer for the Global Church

Hebrew
Jimmy Miller, Gallery Church
Arabic
Samar Miller, Gallery Church

How good and how pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity!

— Psalm 133:1

Message
Ellis Prince, Gallery Church

The Lord’s Prayer
Melissa and Trevor Chin, Hopeville

The Lord’s Prayer in Korean
Esther Park, Saint Mo’s

Offering and Giving Liturgy
Kenneth McFadden, Saint Mo’s

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Holy Father, there is nothing I have that You have not given me. All I have and am belong to You, bought with the blood of Jesus. To spend everything on myself, and to give without sacrifice, is the way of the world that You cannot abide. But generosity is the way of those who call Christ their Lord; who love Him with free hearts and serve Him with renewed minds.

Who withstand the delusion of riches that chokes the word; Whose hearts are in your kingdom and not in the systems of the world.

I am determined to increase in generosity until it can be said that there is no needy person among us. I am determined to be trustworthy with such a little thing as money that You may trust me with true riches. Above all, I am determined to be generous because You, Father, are generous. It is the delight of Your daughters and sons to share Your traits, and to show what You are like to all the world.

Revelation 7:9-12 in English
Marika Pinkett, New Harvest Ministries

  1. After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.
  2. And they cried out in a loud voice:
    “Salvation belongs to our God,
    who sits on the throne,
    and to the Lamb.”

  3. All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
  4. saying:
    “Amen!
    Praise and glory
    and wisdom and thanks and honor
    and power and strength
    be to our God for ever and ever.
    Amen!”

Great is Our God
Melissa and Trevor Chin, Hopeville

Closing instructions
Lindsay Ferguson, Foundry Church

Benediction
Leon Pinkett, New Harvest Ministries