One day. One message. One fresh outpouring on a new generation. That’s the aim of Empowered21 this Pentecost Sunday, May 27.
Pentecost Sunday 2012 is a global initiative of Empowered21—a coalition of churches, ministries and organizations working together to help shape the future of the Spirit-empowered movement across the world.
“Over the years, at least in the historic Pentecostal church I grew up in, we celebrated Christmas extravagantly and Easter in a wonderful way,” Billy Wilson, executive director of the International Center for Spiritual Renewal and Empowered21, told Charisma News. “But not much unique happened in our local church on Pentecost Sunday—and for those of us who are Spirit-empowered and Spirit-filled this should be our big day.”
The goal of the Pentecost Sunday Initiative is to have pastors in pulpits all over the world preaching about the Holy Spirit and His empowerment of God’s people on a single day of unity and power.
“We are calling on the entire movement to invite new generations to experience the person, power and presence of God through the Spirit in our generation,” Wilson says. “We are only 21 years away from what many would consider the 2,000-year anniversary of the original Day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit was poured out in Jerusalem.”
Pentecost Sunday is in line with Empowered21’s vision: That every person on Earth would have an authentic encounter with Jesus Christ through the Power and Presence of the Holy Spirit … by Pentecost 2033.
“We want to do whatever we can over these next two decades to bring God’s presence to the earth until the entire earth is covered with the knowledge of the glory of God,” Wilson says. “And we want to use Pentecost Sunday as a moment that we can unite together in local churches to hear preaching and teaching on the Holy Spirit.”
Thousands of churches and ministries on the six inhabited continents will be participating. Wilson says no church is too small or too large to be a part of this unified proclamation of the Holy Spirit’s ministry. Click here for free Pentecost Sunday resources.
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