adelaide place baptist church

After the disappointment of failing to get funding from a Foundation, Signpost International and CED have scraped funds together themselves and I am off to Rwanda on 14th November to run a workshop to make cement tanks.

Since the genocide the church has gathered groups of children and formed a couple of settlements of around 30 houses, each with a social worker to support the children, many of whom are still traumatised. We plan to work with the older children to build tanks to catch rainwater from their roofs.

The project should help build their confidence as they learn new skills and should save a significant amount of the time they spend each day collecting water from puddles.

I’ll expect to get a blog going at http://www.rankin6.blogspot.com/.

One of the things that defines Baptists is the act of Believers’ Baptism. This is where a person expresses their faith in Jesus Christ by being baptised, usually by being fully immersed in water as a metaphor of Jesus’s death and resurrection.

This Sunday we have the privelege to witness the baptism of our friend Rob Galbraith, and we are happy to join with him in celebrating this next stage in his spiritual journey.

Travel note: As it is the Glasgow Women’s 10k run on Sunday, traffic diversions around the Southside may mean that your journey to church will take a little longer!

Karen and Taulant were married a couple of weeks ago at APBC. Karen sent us some pictures, so we picked one for apbc.net.

They are now on their way back to Tirana where Karen will be working as an administrator for a video production company.