Baptisms

This past Sunday we had four people who wanted to follow the Lord in believers baptism - Vicky, a girl from the University Bible Study; Brother Quilty, an older man from our church in Pukekohe; and Mercy and Malachi. It was so exciting to see these people take this step. We use a baptismal at a church about forty-five minutes north of Pukekohe, so there was several people from our church in Pukekohe, all those from Auckland Bible Baptist Church, and about 20 students from the University there. It was a great time of worshiping the Lord, watching these follow our Lord in believers baptism, and fellowship... oh, and food, we are Baptist! :) 

And to read my Dad's post about the day you can click on this link! :) It was a very busy Sunday with three church services and lots of driving and food prep and so on... but a exciting and very blessed Sunday! :) Praise the Lord! :)

And here is a few pictures form the day! :)

Vicky giving her testimony. She gave it in Chinese because all the students from the University are Chinese and because she's not great at English and neither are many of the students... and then Ethan translated it to English for the rest of us. 

 Vicky

 Mercy

 Malachi giving his testimony...

 ...and then being baptized.

Vicky and Mercy

 Brother Quilty, Vicky, Mercy and Malachi

A heap of students from the University and some Snyders talking.

 Shephine and Paris. 

(Stephine is a little girl from Auckland Bible Baptist Church and Paris is one of our club girls from Tuakau.)

 Little girls playing after tea.

 Emmaline and Joy(another girl from the Bible Study at the University.)

 Pastor Snyder and Pastor G fellowshipping over tea.

 Emmaline, Mercy, Vicky, Joy, Nicolea, and me(Jillian)

 Mrs. G and Vicky

And a random picture of Matthew leading music.

Paris and Mercy in there matching dresses for the day! :)

Fun with Friends!

~During the week up in Auckland that we ran the HBC we also also had great afternoons and evening with friends. We went letter boxing one afternoon, spent a bunch of time at three different malls, and one afternoon Pastor W took us girls to Daven Port and a look out near by. Another afternoon we played Laser Tag and went to Crystal Mountain and on the final afternoon we spent downtown Auckland shopping and sightseeing. What a blessing to have Christian friends in country that we can see every so often!

Emmaline and I in the bigest mall in New Zealand!

Auckland

All of the harbor Bridge

(All of these photo's were taken from the North Shore.)

The town below the hill we were up on.

Looking out toward the ocean.

An island in the bay!

The Sky Tower

Emmaline with Auckland in the background!

Grace Williams and I - And its really windy here, especially out by the ocean.

Grace, me, and Emm on a canon from World War 2.

Jillian

Emmaline

Hannah

Becky

A Ferry coming back from another island.

The ferry terminal in Daven Port.

The towns a big tourist attraction.

Emmaline and I

:)

Fern playing air hockey.

Singing one evening

The Sky Tower

Ladies Retreat 2010

On the 20 and 21 of August, Mom and I had the privalage of going to a Ladies Retreat down in Hamilton! It was a really great time with all the challenges, prayer time, and fellowship! There were 60 ladies from six or more independent baptist churches in New Zealand! Here are some pictures of our weekend!

The theme of the weekend!

Mom, Mrs. G, and Mrs. Mansell

Mrs. Bankston giving a challenge!

Craft Time!

Lonna and Mom making cards!

Teresa giving her testimony.

Mrs. Piper teaching

One of the tables on Friday night!

Me, Erin, and Cara

The Dining Hall

Lydia leading the singing!

The two ladies on the right are from the church in Auckland that we work with.

Mrs. Taputu and Mrs. Rose

Erin

A bunch of the girls in my dorm!

These twins were so cute! They loved the water!