New Christians!

The Feast of the Resurrection is a wonderful time for making new Christians!
At St. John's we had 4 baptisms last night at our Vigil Service - the first time at the vigil we have had them since my arrival at St. John's (we have usually done a large number of them on "low Sunday" the week after).

Matthew Reichhart, Shane Boehm, Melissa Cook and James Cook are our newest members of the body of Christ (two babies, a 5 year old, and an adult).



In Rome even the Pope took time to remind the world the Resurrection is about conversion.



VATICAN CITY--Italy's most prominent Muslim, an iconoclastic writer who condemned Islamic extremism and defended Israel, converted to Catholicism Saturday in a baptism by the pope at a Vatican Easter service.
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