We rejoice with many getting baptised in coming weeks.
We are delighted to have four baptisms coming up soon: this Sunday February 8th, then 22nd February and 8th March [all at Lifestreams], and 26th April [at our 9.30am service].
If you would like to have a conversation about baptism, feel free to contact one of our clergy.
When someone is baptised, that person is brought to Jesus Christ, and made a member of Christ’s Church. It is a new start to life in which the baptised person is accepted and sealed by God with the Holy Spirit to represent Christ to the world.
As a response to the baptism which God gives us, we and the candidates declare our faith and intention to serve Christ, and ask for God’s continuing grace to support us in the task to which we are called.
When a baptism is of a baby or a child, the baptised receives the love and shared faith of the family to grow up into Christ.
Through prayer and fellowship within the body of Christ God strengthens and nourishes us.
Jesus Christ came that we might have life,
and have it in all its fullness.(New Zealand Prayer Book, p.379)
By Andrew Butcher