Easter

 
April 8, 2007


Easter!!!

The Lord has Risen! This year’s Easter was very exciting, as three people were baptized at the church in Niigata! Two of them were English students there and friends of all of us in VYM, and the other is a young girl just starting high school. I didn’t get such great pictures from my vantage point at the back of the church, where I played horn for the prelude and along with the organ for the baptism hymn, but someone else went up to get a better angle and Pastor sent some of the pictures to me.

It’s a typical Lutheran pouring-water-on-the-head type baptism, so they bowed toward the altar to receive it. We spent all day together: sunrise service, breakfast, regular worship/baptism service, potluck lunch, hanging out at the church, taking a stroll in the park, going out for dinner, and returning to Efrain’s apartment to all watch “Ben-Hur” together. Left home at 6am and returned at 1:30am the next day. Very thankful to Laura for the ride home!