The Sudbrock Scoop

Oct-Nov Letter

Thank you for all of your prayers for Vivian, the 19 year old young lady in our church who has surrendered to the ministry. A year ago, her family forbid her to be baptised saying it would ruin their family. After much prayer, she decided that she must follow Christ despite the objections of her family.

It went wonderfully. We had a full building with over 60 people in attendance. Many of the students from Vivian’s senior class attended. Usually the family of the person getting baptised plans the day and makes it special, but in this case since Vivian’s family was not willing to support her in her decision, Paul and I took on the task of making her day extra special. Here is what we ended up doing.

Choosing the theme Footprints in the Sand, Vivian helped us prepare invitations, decorations, confetti and bookmarkers.

One of our ladies read the Footprints poem and our son, Skyler played special music during the song service. Paul prepared a power point presentation to accompany a book that I read entitled I Wish You all the Best in Life. Vivian has written and composed several songs, so we used them in the song service as well. At the end of the service, Vivan did an excellent job giving her testimony.

Afterwards, we had a BBQ on the grounds. While everyone was eating, we prepared helium balloons for a balloon lift-off. Vivian printed a short testimony along with a coupon for a free book and our church address to attach to the balloons. Gathering in the backyard we all let our balloons fly. It was a beautiful finale to a wonderful day. Almost as good as fireworks.

We have already gotten lots of good feedback from the day and are eager to see how God works in the lives of those who were present. Two of the people who attended for the first time came to our teen meeting the following night prepared to accept Christ. Please pray for these two new believers – Anna and Alex.

In Him,

Paul Sudbrock

P.S. Here is a video of Vivian's Baptism on youtube