Reading of the story: God sends the holy spirit

Theme Discussion

In today’s story we see the Holy Spirit giving the apostles the ability to talk in all languages so that they can share God’s teachings with everyone. When they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they were capable of performing miracles to help people and open their hearts.

When the people heard the apostles speaking in their own language, they became believers, and many wanted to be baptized.

The Holy Spirit is always around us and helping us and we often don’t notice. It can help you get the confidence to talk to new people, or do scary things. It can help when you’re having trouble remembering something. You can also give the gift of the Holy Spirit to others. This happens when you can help someone who’s hurt or sad, or when someone’s lost and you tell them where to go.

How do you think the apostles felt when they were able to talk to everyone and spread God’s teachings to everyone?

How has the Holy Spirit helped you or your friends and family?

How have you shared the Holy Spirit with people?

Craft

For today’s craft you’ll need one of the colouring pages, colouring tools, scissors, string or yarn, and glue or tape.

Colour the kite shaped colouring page however you like, then cut out the kite. Next cut 3 pieces of string or yarn about 8 inches long, attach them to the longest point to make a tail for your kite. You can continue to add tails or decorate your kite however you’d like.

Have you ever thought about how kites fly? They get lifted up by the wind, we can’t see the wind but we can see it working. In this way the wind is similar to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is always around us and with us and we just can’t see it. We can’t see the wind but we can see it’s great power, we also can’t see the Holy Spirit but we can see the good that it does.

If you attach another string to the front of your kite and find an open place you can try to fly it, it will have to be a very windy day to fly since it’s just a paper kite.