MWBC Marriage Retreat

This weekend Pam and I were at the annual Minnesota/Wisconsin Baptist Convention marriage retreat. It is a pretty cool deal that encourages ministerial couples to focus making sure things in their relationship are going well.

Pam has written a great post on why the weekend is important. I just want to say that I am real thankful to be a part of a convention that cares about the relationships of the ministers in the churches connected to it.

 

SIDE NOTE – if you are wondering about the image associated with this post it is Pam “tearing up” the Nordic ski trails at Green Lake Conference Center (where the retreat is held annually).

Little Baptism Help?!?!?!

I have a practical baptism question. Since Tapestry is what would be referred to as a nomadic church (i.e. a church without a building – though I also like the idea of us as being a raiding party) our baptisms are usually done at one of two places: Warm weather = Iverson Park, cold weather = the Metallo’s hot tub. It works really well and I love baptisms, both for the proclamation of faith that happens during the baptism and the fun everyone has together during them (baptisms for us equal potluck dinner). It is a really good setup that I don’t want to change in any long term manner,

With that said, I would like to try at least one baptism at the school where we normally meet (Washington Elementary School). Anyone have any ideas for a tank big enough to dunk someone in, that could be setup, filled, and (this is key) brought to room temperature in 2 hours and then completely torn down in 45 minutes? We have 4 hours total at Washington which makes things a little difficult and it costs us per hour to reserve more time.

Sometimes it would be so much easier to just sprinkle. đŸ˜‰