Becky's Baptism
February 8, 2012
First things first – we had such a great time together celebrating our friend Becky’s baptism on Sunday. There were 17 people here at our new house to help Becky mark her journey in this way.
We marked this occasion with prayers of thanksgiving and by considering how much value Jesus places on us and the way he pursues us with a never giving up, unfailing love. We considered how common surrender is – how the pursuit of love always ends in surrender and how baptism is this public declaration that we surrender to Jesus’ love and choose to give ourselves to join his movement of love for the world.
Becky was very articulate and passionate about her faith journey. I was so proud of how well she told her story and how bravely.
Our friend Brian played a song by the Foo Fighters that Becky suggested. The song tied into our theme of Jesus’ pursuit. Give it a listen and imagine it being sung by Jesus to you. Powerful.
We’re so grateful to have been able to help Becky take this critical step in her journey. Becky is a wonderful person and we know God has an amazing adventure planned for her in the days to come.
You can see a full set of pictures here.
Of course Becky’s baptism isn’t all we’ve been up to. As I mentioned briefly we moved on January 28th into a place that can accommodate both our growing family and growing community. We feel so blessed to have found this place – more than twice the size of our first Toronto apartment and it will cost us less per month to live here. We’re still quite centrally located too which is important to us.
Instead of bombarding you with more details and information I think it’ll just let the baptism update stand for itself for now. Next week I’ll share a bit on what the community is up to on Tuesday evenings when we get together.
Thanks again to all of you for supporting Mel and I and by extension this tribe at Mosaic. You helped make this day possible. Let's continue this long race together to see more and more lives surrender to the love of Jesus.
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