Last Sunday there was another joyful event; or rather, another tradition started. Not everyone could go to Baikal camp this summer, so neither could everyone be baptized. However there were many people who wanted to be plunged into water. That’s why it was decided that we would go on a picnic to Vakhmistrovo village, which is on a river bank, so that those people wouldn’t have to wait until next summer to be baptized.

Everything was quite relaxed: after Sunday service a bus came and picked up everyone who wanted to go.  Actually there were ‘a little bit’ more than the bus could normally fit, but that was even better – there were THAT many people. We arrived, set up tables, listened to  testimonies, watched the baptisms, and just relaxed.

Big thanks to all those who went the day before to clean up any trash that was lying around. It was all very clean and beautiful.

Picnic site

Those who fit in the bus

Baptizees

Pasha went wild. Crime scene evidence (pouring water on innocent people).

Evening beauty