Wind is the particular type of air that is required for Pentecost. On the day of Pentecost there’s no such thing as a weather forecast that says ‘too windy’.
Which is good because there has been a significant increase in the amount of UK energy requirements produced by wind over the last year. The UK is a windy place so why not make use of this free resource that is carbon neutral. After all we have a centuries old history of doing so and you can still see the old brick windmill towers in some parts of the landscape.
There are of course old towers on some churches. Maybe a new life for some as the bases for wind generation. that would be in keeping with the Spirit of Pentecost (note that some churches already generate power from solar energy).
Most of all, of course, the church needs wind inside its structures. not just a sort of gentle breeze but a full blown wind that ‘blows the bleeding doors off’. If the wind of the first Pentecost blew the followers of Jesus away how much more energy would that take today, after centuries of windless stagnation?
As a so called’ breath of fresh air’ I can tell you first hand that it takes a lot. I no longer concern myself with the inside of the church and its stagnant air. I can tell you that out here the wind is blowing freely and it’s wonderful.
From my remembered bible: At once there was a sound like a rushing wind.
Blow wind, blow.
JAL 23.05.2021 In (windy) Longdendale.