I do it for all of you, so I guess I ought to do it for the church, right?

Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday, Dear Chur-urch,
Happy birthday to you.

Amen.

OK, let's do it up right. If this is the church's birthday, there ought to be a party, true? One would think that an observance of this magnitude would be noticed around town, just like Christmas or Easter. But this week I have had occasion to shop in several stores, and amazingly, not one of them indicated that there were so few shopping days till Pentecost! In fact, in all my years, the closest thing I have ever seen approaching even a hint that this special day was soon to arrive was one year in the nursery department at Home Depot where there were PENTAS on sale (and for those of you might not know, [and…