A very special day at Segonzac
Today the church decamped to Chateau Segonzac in St Genes de Blaye for a special service of baptism. Four folks were being baptised, a young woman from a church family, a young man from a Christian family in the Paris area, a young woman from French Guyana and a Chinese man. We were over 100 to eat (we know because we ran out of plates) so I guess we were well over 100 at the service.
A group of young people were singing a song during the service and last night I was really pleased to get a text message saying their tenors needed reinforcing so would I like to sing with them. Hey, this may be the last time I get to sing in a groupe de jeunes ! I am going to milk it for all it's worth !
All the baptisms were very special. But one was especially special for us because it was the first baptism of someone who belongs to the English-speaking congregation and not to the French (we have some folk who belong to both).
I remember a similar moment when our first person was baptised who belonged to our church-plant congregation in Broughton and was not generally known in the mother church in Shotton. These are very special times.
Afterwards we all ate and I enjoyed getting to know the young chap's parents. Then the kids and some others splashed and played in the pool and we talked and talked.
A group of young people were singing a song during the service and last night I was really pleased to get a text message saying their tenors needed reinforcing so would I like to sing with them. Hey, this may be the last time I get to sing in a groupe de jeunes ! I am going to milk it for all it's worth !
All the baptisms were very special. But one was especially special for us because it was the first baptism of someone who belongs to the English-speaking congregation and not to the French (we have some folk who belong to both).
I remember a similar moment when our first person was baptised who belonged to our church-plant congregation in Broughton and was not generally known in the mother church in Shotton. These are very special times.
Afterwards we all ate and I enjoyed getting to know the young chap's parents. Then the kids and some others splashed and played in the pool and we talked and talked.
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