Thursday, November 1, 2018

In the end we decided to hold the baptism on Saturday afternoon.  It's a good thing we made the change.  It was raining on Sunday morning.  We baptized both Romeo and Theirry's fiancee Rosalie.  Jim preached on Sunday and then again on Monday evening.  We learned that in reality, Mama Jean had never been baptized herself, though she said she had.  Turns out that her former church preaches that the time for baptism has past.  It is not for this age.  Strange!  

We also stumbled onto the fact that Jean Claude and Chantal have never had the church blessing.  He paid the bride price and they had the civil ceremony.  So we discussed a plan for taking that final step.  Chantal would like to be baptized in conjunction with the church blessing.  They are going to save money as they sell their annual cash crops at this time.  Then sometime after the first of the year they will have the church blessing.  We hope that takes place before we return to the U.S. in mid-July.

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