Lives Restored!

This past Sunday afternoon was a special day for Restoration Church because we got to witness and celebrate baptism. Since our church doesn't own a building yet, we do this in a really unique way -- in the pool at the YMCA! Dan really likes it this way, because it is a good way to get out in the community instead of staying inside the walls of the church all the time. The two times so far that Restoration Church has had baptism, there has been at least a couple of people who work there make comments like "I've never seen anything like this before!"

The couple that got baptized Sunday, Tony and Terri, have such a great story of how God has worked in their lives. They were involved in the Catholic church for years, but recently Tony was just feeling that he wanted something more and that something was missing in his life. They heard about Restoration Church through word of mouth and they decided to come check it out. Tony said he knew that first Sunday that he had found what he was looking for. Soon after that, he met with Dan to talk about having a real relationship with Jesus, and he has since committed his life to Christ! They have both been attending ever since, and when Dan announced that we were going to be having a baptism service for anyone who wanted to make that profession of faith they knew they wanted to take that step.

So we had a nice crowd from the church come out to the YMCA pool to witness and support Tony and Terri in this beautiful symbolism of what Jesus has done in their lives.

Here is the happy couple afterwards:

It was a great celebration time. Baptism is such a beautiful visual symbol of how Christ restores lives, and this was a wonderful reminder of why we are here in Buffalo!