by Julie Turner | Nov 9, 2015 | What's Happening
Here are a few more photos of Jade’s baptism: Setting up the baptistery beforehand, heating the water: Jade answering questions before the baptism and listening to verses given to her (John 15:9/ Col 2:6-7): Everyone watching! The joy of a baptismal service is...
by Julie Turner | Nov 8, 2015 | What's Happening
In photography, the photographer focuses on a particular object and draws the eye to certain things; how a photograph is framed or composed gives a definite focus to how we look at the photo. In this photo, the rose is the focus of our attention, with the rest of the...
by Julie Turner | Nov 7, 2015 | What's Happening
Everyone enjoyed singing about the love of Jesus tonight! It’s so high… … and so low… … and so wide… We also enjoyed hearing other people’s testimonies of how they had come to know God and how their baptisms had led to times...
by Julie Turner | Nov 7, 2015 | What's Happening
Tonight we held our first baptismal service in our building on Market Street, an occasion for great celebration! We held the service in the community room in order to be able to accommodate the baptistery, starting with a time of worship: Dave then explained about...
by Julie Turner | Nov 5, 2015 | What's Happening
The questions raised by the Corinthians don’t always seem especially relevant to people nowadays. In our culture, do we still sacrifice meat to idols? Do we stress over how to give money to charity? Surely we’re not still hung up on sex in the way the Corinthians...
by Julie Turner | Nov 5, 2015 | What's Happening
We live in a world of ambiguity. At times, we rail against that, longing for clear-cut, definitive commands which take away any necessity for individual thought. On other occasions, we chafe at commands, wrestling with individual situations which don’t seem to fit the...