First & Foremost
We've had a lot of firsts this year. Since this is the first year for Connection Church in San Luis Obispo, or anywhere else for that matter, it seems like just about everything we do is somehow for the first time. This Sunday, for example, was our first Baptism Service, our first service at Avila Beach, our first service with Pastor Angela not in attendance—she had a long-standing commitment to speak at a women's retreat this weekend—the first time Pastor Dale delivered his talk sitting on an ice chest, the first time we took a break not just for coffee, but for fish-n-chips (Ryan had to be late, so we sort of had lunch while we waited), and the first time we saw clearly just how much Pastor Dale values warm and dry. It was truly an uplifting event, though from the photograph above you can see not everyone shared our enthusiasm.;)
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Click on the photos to bring up larger ones. Notice, also, how calm the ocean was before Dale and Ryan stepped in. We prayed before they went out, but whatever Dale intended to say before Ryan went under, he must have said really fast, because one moment they were up, and the next they were both down. It was almost as if someone else had a hand in the baptism, and wasn't going to settle for just one.
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I truly did miss out from the looks of it :) It was very hard for me to press onward in the retreat I was speaking at with having our great church on my mind. It's so funny because I'm the one who came up with the idea to have a Baptism this past Sunday and Dale ran with it and then I was bummed because though a great idea I would miss out. Thank you Evan for these pictures :) Baptisms are so incredibly special and Dale got to have the whole weekend with his kids.
I did a women's retreat for the administrative staff from New Life Center (the church we came from) and it was life-changing so though I missed you God was with us too and I had a lovely time.
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