Happy Friday church family!

What a great week for our church family celebrating six baptisms out at Deeper Life Bible Camp Wednesday evening. Thank you to everyone who was able to come out and celebrate and fellowship with us. It was so encouraging to see these young men and women step forward to publicly declare that they belong to Jesus! May God bless them all and use them mightily for His Kingdom!

It is a good reminder to us that baptism is a symbol and physical representation of the spiritual truth that if we die in Christ, then we shall also live with Him in His Kingdom, for we will have faced our judgment and wrath through Jesus who suffered so on the cross. Our debt is paid – the judgment is satisfied – and all we need to do is give our lives to the One who now holds the keys to death and the grave. What grace and forgiveness are ours! May you rest this week in the peace of belonging to Jesus.

-- In faith, Pastor Eric

“Baptism . . . now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.” 1 Peter 3:21-22 ESV