Anyway, June 24, Mallory was baptized. Pastor Norm baptized seven people at the Ambassador Wellness Center, but he invited her dad and grandpa to be part of baptizing her. Baptism was something Mallory had been pursuing for quite some time and I wanted to leave that up to her. Since it represents the personal decision she has made, I wanted her public announcement, the baptism itself, to also be of her design. It's just so awesome to see your children choose Christ! We had a little reception here afterwards that was really quite memorable. She asked several people to come and had me call a few that afternoon to make sure they were coming! It's nice to have a decision stick out in their minds. Mom counted about 25 people here. It was a very warm and intimate time, and just exactly what we hoped would happen. Pastor Norm opened the invitation at the baptism to anyone else who wanted to be baptized at that time. The boys have both made decisions for Christ, but they have their own plans for their baptisms. More to come on that subject...
Monday, July 09, 2007
June 24, 2007
I don't usually start my ramblings with dates, but due to lack of internet, I'm pretty far behind!! I'm on dial up right now, so I have to keep this short. If a call comes in, I can't retrieve it from this computer and the other one isn't hooked up to a phone line.
Anyway, June 24, Mallory was baptized. Pastor Norm baptized seven people at the Ambassador Wellness Center, but he invited her dad and grandpa to be part of baptizing her. Baptism was something Mallory had been pursuing for quite some time and I wanted to leave that up to her. Since it represents the personal decision she has made, I wanted her public announcement, the baptism itself, to also be of her design. It's just so awesome to see your children choose Christ! We had a little reception here afterwards that was really quite memorable. She asked several people to come and had me call a few that afternoon to make sure they were coming! It's nice to have a decision stick out in their minds. Mom counted about 25 people here. It was a very warm and intimate time, and just exactly what we hoped would happen. Pastor Norm opened the invitation at the baptism to anyone else who wanted to be baptized at that time. The boys have both made decisions for Christ, but they have their own plans for their baptisms. More to come on that subject...
Anyway, June 24, Mallory was baptized. Pastor Norm baptized seven people at the Ambassador Wellness Center, but he invited her dad and grandpa to be part of baptizing her. Baptism was something Mallory had been pursuing for quite some time and I wanted to leave that up to her. Since it represents the personal decision she has made, I wanted her public announcement, the baptism itself, to also be of her design. It's just so awesome to see your children choose Christ! We had a little reception here afterwards that was really quite memorable. She asked several people to come and had me call a few that afternoon to make sure they were coming! It's nice to have a decision stick out in their minds. Mom counted about 25 people here. It was a very warm and intimate time, and just exactly what we hoped would happen. Pastor Norm opened the invitation at the baptism to anyone else who wanted to be baptized at that time. The boys have both made decisions for Christ, but they have their own plans for their baptisms. More to come on that subject...
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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!! for Mallory. We are also letting our children take the lead in how to handle their baptisms. Cannon was baptized a few summers ago by his Grandpa Frank. Jewel is taking her time and that's totally fine with us. Our current pastor gave her a workbook to complete to help explain things to her she is taking her sweet time with the workbook so we are following her lead.
Please give "sister" Mallory our congratulatios!
Good blogging
Smiles,
Jennifer
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