In over their heads

WHAT BEGAN at a Girls’ Brigade devotional meeting with a group of Grade five girls came to a conclusion in a group baptism at Pine Rivers Uniting Church on 15 November.

In July Brigade leader Ros Mortimer told her girls about John the Baptist.

A number of the girls had not been baptised and asked plenty of questions. A leader and one of the mothers joined the discussion, which grew to involve Rev John Gill.

It was a powerful public statement of faith as the five young women were baptised into the Christian church.

Family members and friends joined hundreds at the Girls’ and Boys’ Brigade quarterly service.

Photo : Cindy Farnell, Lauren Gilmour, Jessica Perks, Courtney Longhurst and Jody Anger. Photo by Alex Butler