Baptisms!

Had my regular sunday morning chat with the youth this morning and was talking about baptism, and we got some! It’s certainly in moments like these that I am really forced to be deliberate about (figuratively) slapping myself around when I hear myself taking credit for stuff like this. Usually it’s just in my head, but it’s hard to focus on the amazing work that God’s doing without trying to make yourself big. But God’s certainly helping me out, my talk this morning was pretty jumbled, and didn’t really feel like it had a lot of flow to it – which is probably why God used it.

Can’t wait til the baptisms actually happen – we’ve got 5 lined up for it, and it’s gunna be great! One girl in particular, who is just an absolute fortress in a family of non-christians, almost made me cry when I saw that she was up for being baptised. As much as it means for people who are in christian homes and have done the whole church thing, it’s gotta mean so much more for someone like this girl, who will get her mum and dad along to see something that is so foreign to them. She’s an inspiration to me.

Had a great afternoon with our senior youth kids. Were going to go to the beach but the commitment of going away for the whole day was a bit much and we only had 3 coming – so we hooked up to go tenpin bowling with a group of about 8 and had a wonderful time. And despite my natural instincts, I was being considerably less competitive than normal, and bowled 151! Couldn’t believe it. I know deep down that I should be learning from the obvious lesson there – but there’s little chance that I will.