My lovely wife was baptized today at our soon-to-be official new church, Karis, in Columbia, MO. Our church meets in a hotel downtown, so we had to baptize her in another church nearby. The subplot of her baptism is that she has been attempting to have it done for a long time but has been twarted at severals points through the years. While in Boston, our beloved church was PCA, so the pastor, understanding that Ping had been sprinkled as an infant in a Presbyterian church, couldn't see any reason for baptizing her. Long story short, she was finally able to be baptized here in Columbia at our new (and already beloved) church. Here is pastor and friend Kevin Larson decked out in wadders (no, he didn't go fly fishing afterwards):
It was kind of a small baptismal but at the same time a cool one, because it was surrounded on all sides by glass, and so friends can gather and watch the dunking. Ping seems a little bemused by this feature:
Here's Ping preparing to descend into what, she hoped, would be warm water (I'm glad Kevin's not the type of guy to drown her in front of so many witnessess . . . or at all, for that matter):
Kevin did a great job. Needless to say, it was a very special day for both Ping and I.
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wish we could have been there. so is this a baptist church? sca~ry. j/k! so glad that you've found a great church to call home.
Yay! Congratulations Ping. Miss you guys here. Now that you're baptized, all your business our there is done and you can come back to Boston, right?
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