Often called the birthday of the Church, the first Christian Pentecost was marked by an outpouring of the Holy Spirit so powerful as to be described in terms of wind and fire. So the earliest Christians were enpowered to preach and declaim the Gospel at great cost to themselves. Obidiah's closing words "...and the kingdom shall be of the Lord's" are most fitting. St. Matthias was the first addition to the Apostles after the original twelve. He was chosen to replace Judas. In loving memory of Marjorie Smith Charles.