Set in this beautiful scene we witnessed our first `sea baptism´ on Saturday evening! The pastor´s daughters Donata(16) and Joseba(14) gave their lives to the Lord almost ten years ago to the day and after a discipleship course and much prayer and planning, were able to give testimony to their old life dying and their new life in Christ beginning in front of a large gathering of family, friends, members from all the other baptist churches and also some from the pentecostal churches on the island! We had a great service filled with testimonies, songs dedicated to the girls (the first time I´ve sung a special in church since my illness) and a clear outline of the gospel ....not to forget the taking of offering half way through, too! After the service we all accompanied the girls and their father (dressed in white robes- true Baptist style!) down to the beach, past many cafe´s, tourists and club PR´s looking quite surprised and almost a touch nervous but very open to have a chat about it afterwards! After a short statement of intent, the three of them went into the sea and had to go quite far out to get any depth (unfortunately it was quite dusk by then and impossible to get any good pictures of it!) and in the presence of a multitude on the beach (mainly our party) and an even greater multitude looking on from the marina, hotels and restaurants, bars, clubs and cafe´s, the girls were baptised by their father in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost....thoroughly immersed and happy to have taken one more important step in their walk with the Lord! We finished off the evening with a buffett at the neighbouring Irish pub (food provided by the church, drinks provided by Dennis, the owner who has been quite open to the church and friendly to us since the beginning) since the Scandinavian cafe´(see right picture) where we meet as a church is also used by three other churches and the Finnish church had their worship service soon after. One of the highlights for me was to hear one of their friends (who is also part of the youthgroup) say that this was the most exciting thing she had witnessed in her whole life! Praise the Lord for such a great day, for the testimony of Donata and Joseba, both great witnesses among their classmates and friends already, and for the many hundreds of people who witnessed this event and join us in prayer for the souls of those who heard the gospel that night and haven´t yet made the most important decision in their lives!