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Melissa and I are gearing up.  We are starting to make arrangements even.  Within six weeks, Melissa and I will share two extremely significant events in our lives.  Both of them will be marked by guest preachers in our pulpit.  On March 11, we will celebrate our 10^th anniversary.  We are planning a trip up to North Georgia where we honeymooned to get some rest and relaxation (something that seems hard to come by with a 4 year old and a 4 month old in the house).  Since we will be out that weekend, our old

friend Jerrod Lowry will preach that Sunday.  He is looking forward to seeing everyone again.

The other event we are even more excited about.  On Sunday 3 April, the Sunday after Easter, Murphy will be baptized.  We have made the session aware of my desire not to play the part of pastor that day, but to play the part of dad.  Fortunately, we have easy access to one of my mentors, one of my best friends, and a heck of a fine pastor.  My father will be coming to baptize his granddaughter and to preach for us that morning.

As excited as we are to have a family member come to participate in this wondrous event, we are at least equally excited to be able to share that day with our church family.  There are clearly other options in the Presbytery that we could conceivably use.  My mother is a member of Shallowford Presbyterian, where I was baptized years ago.  Bobo and Martha (my mother-in-law and sister-in-law) are members at North Avenue Presbyterian, where Melissa was born and baptized.  And my father, of course, is at Pleasant Hill, where my signature is the largest one on the charter (I made sure to sign it biggest, and my friend made sure to sign it smallest, so we’d cover the bases).  But those places never entered our minds.  Having Murphy baptized in any place other than NPC would seem unnatural.  And as we realize that, we recognize how fortunate we are to have such a wonderful church family.  We are very much looking forward to the future that God has in store for us as we journey together, and baptizing Murphy into the church just reinforces that excitement.

We look forward to marking a significant point of Murphy’s life, of her being a child of God, with you, our family.  As I am always,

 

Yours in Christ,

  Matt

 

 

 

 

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