Thursday night, we celebrated two of the church's ordinances : communion and baptisms. Our Communion service was great - we had a student share about trusting the Lord through his leading her to be the final member of our church plant team, we worshiped the Lord through song and took Communion for the last time this semester as a church. The highlight of the evening, though, was afterward, when 100 or so of our students ventured over to our pastor's driveway for baptisms.
We had 13 baptisms that night.
I got to be a part of four of them, including my sister's!
The staff call these our true pay days. With the six we had at our Fall Retreat, that brings us to 19 baptisms for the year. When we get to see new life and these public declarations of faith, we truly get to see some fruit of our labor. It's exhilarating, uplifting and helps you to know that God is here.
Join us in praying for these new believers and for some old friends who have decided to be faithful to what God has called them to. Pray that we as a church build them up and train them to be disciple makers as well.
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