Baptisms in Phnom Penh

We know how you are all anxiously awaiting the photos of our wonderful day today. We felt you all with us as we celebrated the baptisms of Nirann and Sithy. God blessed us with a beautiful day and the boat trip was perfect. Thank you to ACBM for the boat hire…$30 for two hours!! At the junction of the Mekong River, Tonle Sap and Basaac River we witnessed two of God’s children joining the living waters. As Nirann and Sithy came out of the waters of baptism we all joined to sing, “This is the day that the Lord has made…” with Chea playing guitar. We had refreshments on the boat and followed this with a feast of pizza (Nirann’s favourite). The worship meeting was inspiring as we welcomed our new brother and sister in Christ. Our exhortation drew parallels between the natural and spiritual rivers, contrasting the river of life and the environmental damage made by man to God’s creation (Bible references include Rev 11:18; Psalm 1; John 7:37-38; Rev 22:1-3; John 4:6-14; Eph 2:1-8 and of course Romans 6). What a spiritual feast!!!

Comments

Anonymous said…

Congratulations on the two new members of The Household of Faith

16 June 2008 at 11:42 am

Sara-Rose said…

so sad i missed it. i can tell how excited everyone was over there from the photos, must have been an amazing day.

well done steve for braving the river ;)

god bless

16 June 2008 at 2:32 pm

Anonymous said…

Hi Lynne and Steve!

Hope you are both well. I have been reading this blog pretty much soon after it started and have read all your posts and keeping up to date and thoroughly enjoying them. The blog about Chea has been the most moving one so far on here have read. Hope he continues to join along at the centre and is able to learn new songs his guitar!

Congratulations on the recent baptims also! God Bless.

Jo Ridings

17 June 2008 at 5:05 pm

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