Emma was baptised in August. It was so amazing. We have never approached our kids about baptism. They know what God has to say about the subject but we never asked or pushed. We want their faith to be entirely theirs. Emma has opted not to over the last few years whenever the opportunity presented itself. Well, our church was having its regularly scheduled picnic/baptism at a local park at the end of August. We never mentioned it. She never mentioned it. Then the day before the picnic I was helping Lorraine (my mother-in-law) frost a cake for the picnic and Gavin was watching us, cracking his usual jokes. Gabe went outside to find Emma and tell her what we were doing and about Gavin's silliness. She just said, "What, the baptism is tomorrow??" She scrambled out of the tree she was in, ran inside to find Christian, and told him she wanted to be baptised. We were a bit surprised but very happy for her. She was baptised by her dad in the lake the following day. (the other guy in the picture is the new pastor at FCC, Chuck Redfern.)
2 comments:
That is so exciting!!
Way to go Emma!
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