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After being unable to hold any baptism services for over a year, we're looking forward to our next baptism services coming up soon! Baptism is a great time of celebration as people declare publicly that they have decided to follow Jesus.
We currently have three baptism services scheduled for the coming months:
- Sunday 4th April (Easter Sunday)
- Sunday 6th June
- Sunday 25th July
Things will look a little different to normal, and we have a number of safety measures in place - national government guidelines for baptism by immersion, and additional safety measures of our own:
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Our additional safety measures |
- Social distance maintained except at the point of immersion
- Only one person immersed at a time, and only by a single officiant
- The officiant should sanitise their hands after each person is immersed
- Existing restrictions will apply in the church service - masks, distancing, etc.
- There will be a limited number of people allowed in the church building maintaining appropriate distancing [capacity subject to the size of the building] - we will also livestream the service online as normal.
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- We will baptise a limited number of people at each service, and have scheduled multiple baptism services to allow for this.
- The water in the baptistry will be treated with pool chemicals to prevent the spread of infection [COVID-19 is not believed to spread in water but this is an additional precaution]
- We will ask all those being baptised to take a COVID test on the Saturday (or Sunday morning!) of the baptism service weekend, and this must show a negative result. The pastor will do the same.
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