Yesterday my beautiful daughter was baptized at our church in a service that can only be described as remarkable. Rich had the awesome privilege of baptizing Anna in front of our family and many church friends who had gathered. Anna was the 27th out of 27 children who were baptized last night as a culmination of a 4 week New Believers Class. Last May Anna had asked Jesus to be her savior as we were coming home from a MOPs meeting. I pulled the van over to the side of the road and we said a sinner's prayer right there in the car. It will be a day I will never forget. Yesterday was also one of those days.
Today was just an ordinary day...that is until I found out what happened at school. Anna couldn't wait to get to school today so she could tell her teacher, Mrs. Nicoll, that she had been baptized yesterday. After school Mrs. Nicoll told me that not only did Anna want to tell her, she also wanted to tell the whole class. So at sharing time Anna let the class know that she had been baptized the day before. Anna said that several people wanted to know what that meant. So she told them that she had asked Jesus to come live in her heart and that she had went under the water. She said that some of the kids laughed and thought it was funny, but that others thought it was neat. Today my daughter became a missionary. She shared her testimony with 20 other students, she was laughed at, and misunderstood...all for Jesus. Praise God. If there is anything that I want my daughter to be in the world it is a missionary. God grant her BOLDNESS to share her faith and to win many to the kingdom.
I am so proud of Anna! Espy will never be the same with our Anna Grace there telling everyone about Jesus!! Praise you Jesus!!!
ReplyDeleteI am show proud of her. We as parents try to raise our children to have God as the center in their lives. What a opportunity for Anna to profess her love for Jesus. We all can take lessons from children. They are not scared to talk about Jesus as some adults would be. Raise a child in the way they should go and they will never depart from it. What a awesome thing to happen to get to baptize your own child into Christ. Love ya
ReplyDeleteMay this just be the beginning with what God wants to do through Anna. May she take Jesus with her around the world, across the street, and wherever our sweet Savior takes her! The Pilgreens have a front row seat!
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