Our church plant in North Odessa has run into some complications with their legal documents. We all take precautions to assure we operate as formally and legally as possible, but in Ukraine that can be quite complex! It truly teaches us to operate by faith. So we do ask for prayer as Pastor George and his assistant Andrei (an ERSU seminary student) try to iron out these things, even while continuing their active ministry.

Since Pastor George is on presbytery committees that have called him away this week, and Andrei is so busy with studies, work, and these legal matters, their plate is full. So Clay will be preaching this Sunday (April 29) at the North Odessa church plant. The sermon is from Romans 6:1-14, on "Improving your Baptism"!

If you don't know what that is, you can check out the Westminster Larger Catechism #167, which starts thus: "The needful but much neglected duty of improving our Baptism, is to be performed by us all our life long...."

In the midst of such confusion and discussions over infant baptism, modes of baptism, effectiveness of baptism, etc., it is refreshing to return to the Word and think about how to BENEFIT from our baptism -- whatever mode or style we prefer. God gave us this sacrament as a blessing, not a curse!