Many churches in our communities baptise adults and children, by total immersion or the sprinkling of water on the forehead. Christians carry out this ritual today, to follow Jesus’ example, and to show that they believe and obey him. It is a symbol that someone belongs to Christ. Some Christians believe that people should only be baptised when they are old enough to understand what they are doing and able to make the choice to…
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St. John’s Methodist Church, Littleport – A History
Were it not for the ongoing efforts of man, the fens would consist of water and marsh, not habitable land. It’s easy to feel dwarfed by the sheer vastness of the fens and be in need of human contact, human contact that shares our values and our beliefs. Was it that coming together with shared beliefs that prompted the Littleport Society (the title of the early Methodist congregations) to build their chapel in the early…
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