Ordinance Sunday

Tomorrow is ordinance Sunday at our church. Three Sundays a year we have a communion service and baptism service. In the past we have done our baptisms at our parent church, Huron Baptist, during the afternoon hours. We also do a celebraton dinner after the baptisms in which we invite family and friends of the baptism candidates to attend.
A few months ago the leadership team saw that we had the potential to have a larger than usual number of people getting baptized and we were questioning wheather Huron would be big enough to house the event. As we were brainstorming about possible alternatives one of the fellows mentioned the swimming pool at the middle school we currently meet at. After some further discussion we decided to look deeper into this possibility.
Well tomorrow 8 adults, 1 teenager, and 3 children will be baptized in the swimming pool at Brownstown Middle School. Also we will have over 100 guests between them all, who will be witnessing this event and joining in the dinner celebration that follows. It is very likly we will have close to 300 people gathered aroung the pool watching the baptisms. A lot of planning and the work of many of our members will go into making this all happen, but it is the kind of work that is well worth it. I look forward to many more special days like this one in the days to come at Community Baptist Church.