Easter Sunday 2011 – baptisms & more!

Easter Sunday is always a very special day for us as we celebrate that Jesus rose from the dead and is alive today. Listen to our Easter messages here.

Today was even more special as we baptised three people too! Each of them gave a short testimony, telling us how knowing Jesus’ forgiveness and peace had transformed their lives.

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Baptism has been done this way for a couple of thousand years. It’s the way new Christians in the Bible made their faith in Jesus Christ public. Going under the water symbolises the end of a person’s old life. The water itself symbolises the guilt and power of sin being washed away. Coming up out of the water again symbolises the start of a new life with God.

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The children made some rather impressive Easter gardens too!