Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Emily's Baptism
20-July-2010:
Emily was baptised on June 13, 2010 (this post is very outdated, however I think I've briefly mentioned about this event in a previous post). I suppose I've said everything I wanted to say in that previous post. The purpose of this post is to show you some photos of Emily on that day and also some photos of the church. Unfortunately, I do not have any photos of Emily while she was being baptised since I was out there with her and her daddy had disappeared amongst the crowd somewhere.
Emily was baptised in St. Paul's Anglican church in PJ. It is about 15 minutes drive from our new home. The people are mostly Indians or English-speaking Chinese, i.e. most of the Chinese there probably can't speak very good Chinese. There are also foreigners, mostly from Myanmar, and particularly one rather good-looking Burmese priest. :-D The church runs a lot of activities - missionary trips to here and there, classes and discussion groups, movie nights, bible studies and lots more but I'm not involved in any of them. Here are some photos of the church compound.
This is the main building where services are conducted. There is a bell tower in front of it which rings everyone in when service starts. It is not automatic. Somebody has to ring it by pulling a string. Dominic had requested to ring it a few times but so far did not have the privilege to do it yet.
This is the church hall. The children's service is conducted here before they break out for their classes. Classes (for the adults & youth, not Sunday school classes) are conducted upstairs.
Attached to the church, behind the hall, is a kindy. Sunday school classes are conducted in the kindy.
There is also a children's playground. This is where Dom will be every Sunday before the bell rings. At first, it was his incentive for coming to church, but now he enjoys his classes very much and has made some friends.
On the day of Emily's baptism, at first before the event, she was crying because a stranger (aunty Ellen) said hi. Haha.
And then she stopped crying when given the pacifier but still looked warily at Ellen.
She had a buddy that day, i.e. baby Esther who is only one month younger than her. To me, they both behave exactly the same way!
During the service, Dom was in Sunday school class, making Father's Day craft. Will blog about that later.
