Cannonball Sunday

Sunday was Baptism Sunday at RCC (Redwood Covenant Church). After a really cool Children's lesson:


I went to "big people church" and was blessed beyond measure. The sermon started with a video of a child jumping into the baptismal. Hence the name of this blog and the Sermons title today.

Pastor Doug spoke on having an eagerness to get into the water. At RCC, we practice family baptism. There was a father who was baptized as a sign of his faith in Christ along with his children as a sign they where under his roof and would be raised in the faith. After the service, there was an invitation for anyone who wanted to baptized and hadn't done so to come down. No one came, the service ended, the worship team played, people chatted, and the sanctuary began to empty. Until more people came down to be baptized. Among them was the mother of the family who had been baptized earlier in the service. When asked why she wanted to be baptized, she said, "I am tired of fighting what has always been." It was amazing to see the faith of the father and the faith of the children used by God to bring another daughter of his to a public confession of her faith. To allow her to "stop fighting, and accept what has always been."

Serving Him with all of you just from further away,
Jesse "Gonzo" Letourneau