Beccy's Baptism
We all stood outside whilst Beccy was plunged beneath the surface of the water in the baptismal tank and it seemed fitting that the whole Church took part.  

Minutes earlier Beccy had explained her decision to be baptised. She said “I had a good Christian family upbringing but whilst at college and the start of university, with more work and more distractions, my faith fell away.  I never stopped believing in the existence of God but he seemed irrelevant.  I spent the summer in South Africa and I returned feeling like I was looking for something, like there was something missing.  I tried all sorts, I read a lot and went to meditation classes and it wasn’t really working out, I was rubbish at meditation, really rubbish.  The meditation class that was usually on a Wednesday night but one week changed to a Tuesday, I went down and on the way saw some posters advertising an Alpha Course that was also on a Tuesday night, right after the Meditation Class, I thought ‘why not’.  So I went after my class and it was really good, I was really surprised at how good the company was, the discussion was really interesting, the food was good and I thought ‘may be this is what it is’.  

Over the next few weeks I began to realise that Christianity is true and the truth can’t be ignored.  It’s like C. S. Lewis said, ‘Christianity is a statement that if false is of no importance and if true is of infinite importance, the one thing it cannot be is moderately important’.  That became very true and in September I moved to Liverpool and joined Jubilee.  Back in the autumn I went away on the Alpha Weekend and there I was filled with the Holy Spirit.  Back in Liverpool I belonged to a really great student cell group that has been brilliant and very supportive.  So now I feel that I am ready to make a public statement, that I am a Christian, that I want to live for God.  I want to acknowledge that I have been saved by Christ’s crucifixion and symbolised in my baptism that I wish to live every day forward now for God.