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Baptism
These three individuals followed the Lord
in believer's baptism at Lisnagalvin Leisure Center in Londonderry on November
2nd, 2003.
Amber Smith
My daughter Amber has been saved for
several months.
She liked the pool idea a wee bit better than the river.
It was several degrees warmer, and no fear of fish!
Russell Steele
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible
At the age of nineteen Russell was injured in a tree cutting accident that
paralyzed
him and confined him to a wheelchair as a paraplegic.
He says that if he had not been paralyzed he may have never gotten
saved.
Praise the Lord, He does all things good! Russell was saved in 1999.
Russell has been coming to our church for some time now and has been a blessing to our
congregation. He wanted to be baptized back in the summer when we baptized
the other men, but the problem was getting him safely into the water and out
again. The river was not such a place. Some people would had used
their disability as an excuse and given up. Not Russell.
We found a leisure center that could facilitate a wheelchair in the water and
hired their pool.
I asked Brian Rebuck and Russell's brother, Rodney, to assist me in the water.
I had never baptized a man in a wheelchair. And honestly, I had never seen
a smile on a man's face as big as what was on Russell's face when he came out
of the water.
This is another example that
being disabled does not mean you are unable.
We give all the glory to God.
Luke 1:37 For with God nothing shall be impossible
Charmaine Steele
Charmaine Steele, Rodney's wife, was saved
some time ago. She has certainly grown in the Lord over the past several
months since she has been coming to the church.
In a culture where baptism is usually performed on babies, it takes a lot to get
into the water and be baptized as an adult. I praise the Lord for
Charmaine and for the stand her family is taking for Christ. It isn't easy
to raise a Christian family in a world that is opposite of what Christ and His
Word teaches, but this family has made up their minds to do just that.