Baptism

At our 10am service today, Palesa Mary Hammond was baptised. It was a very joyful occasion for her mother, Robyn together with all the congregation. Robyn adopted Palesa while she was working as a teacher in Lesotho, and they returned to Inverness last July. Today we instituted a new tradition as part of the baptism, which we hope will be helpful to children and their parents in the years to come.

While we were visiting friends in the German Lutheran Church last year, one of the children had a birthday. In the centre of the dinner table along with the cake and birthday candles was a large candle with the child's name on it and the date of her baptism. An annual reminder of her baptism and the new birth in Jesus which it points to. We plan to give each child a candle with their name and date of baptism on it, as a way of reminding them of their baptism from year to year.

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