Repeating the Message

Woven threads, back and forth
weaving a story, a rich fabric
strong fibers, bright colors
words repeating the message
the connection of our lives

Our baptism with His
the waters of the Jordan,
of the Congo, of the Contoocook
rivers connecting, living waters

His baptism, changing His life
changing our world evermore
from the inside out

The carpenter no more
through the waters dying
the Messiah rising from the waters

Repeating the good news
the message, hope for all people
in our baptism, one heart at a time


July 2, 2009
Reverend Sammie Maxwell
African Choir
Celebration of Youth
Baptism of the Teens
families from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
who suffered through the massacre of August 13, 2004,
at Gatumba, their refugee camp in Burundi
See - http://www.hrw.org/legacy/backgrounder/africa/burundi/2004/0904/1.htm#_Toc81987410,
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Activists_remember_Burundi's_Gatumba_massacre
Psalm 130
Mark 1:1-13
and sermon, “A Baptism of Life Change”
by Bishop Peter Weaver of New England United Methodist Conference
Contoocook United Methodist Church
June 28, 2009

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