Lu Gets Baptized

I got to baptize Lutiya last Saturday. She’s actually been bugging me about it for a few months now. We wanted to make it a semi-big deal — you know, with food and friends and stuff — but the bigger a deal it got, the more we just put it off.

A couple weeks ago, our pastor spent some time talking about baptism, how you don’t have to be a pastor to do it, they don’t have to go through an 8-week training course, it doesn’t have to be in a river or an ocean, it doesn’t even have to be total immersion (he said they mis-timed the tide once, so they just found a puddle big enough and muddy enough and then shoved the guy down as far as he would go).

You just make do with what you got like the early church did. And I realized I’d been putting it off long enough.

Of course, Lu didn’t want to do it the moment I asked, so it got put off another week. But as it turned out, our friend Norbert was baptizing two of the girls in Lu’s dance class, so we asked her if she wanted to go along. I’m so glad she did.

The video below isn’t much, but it’s a record. We like those.

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