Update Tuesday - Baptism!

This promises to be an exciting and busy week for The Hamilton Fellowships! 
To begin with, we will be celebrating our first baptism this evening.  We will be heading down to the lake where we will have a pot-luck pic-nic followed by a time of testimonies and baptism.   Not only am I very proud to be baptizing my son Liam, I am also prayerful for the impact that this first baptism will have on our fellowship.  I am praying that this sets a tone for us as we celebrate this important marker and that we would look forward with expectation to more opportunities.  This will also be the first baptism that some of our people will have ever seen.
We also have the privilege of welcoming our first mission team this summer from Parkview Baptist in Tuscumbia, Alabama.  This is the church that Kim, Liam and I had the privilege of visiting as a part of their On Mission Celebration last August.  I have known Scot, the Missions Pastor, since he was at his last church in South Carolina.  That church was a significant financial partner for The Sanctuary Milton that really helped sustain in through the first number of years.   I am happy to have been able to maintain a relationship with Scot.   It is great to see that his new church is carrying on the support of church planting here in Canada by financially partnering with The Hamilton Fellowships as well making their way up here to physically serve along side of us.  We have a number of different things that they will be doing including serving at Mission Services (an important ministry serving the underprivileged downtown), helping us serve meals to the homeless and hosting a neighbourhood BBQ.  We are looking forward to serving together.
We also have a number of really exciting things in the works for this summer as we look ahead to the fall that I hope to be able to share in the upcoming weeks.  Don't forget to look back each Tuesday!