Our Baptistry Got Jazzed Up Today!

Our chapel has a detatched baptistry building. It is behind the chapel and across from the tiled courtyard. A while ago Elder VanWormer and I met with the Elders to do something in the font room and we were embarrassed at how poor a condition it was in. The gathering room for people to watch the baptism had been littered with items that should have been in a storage room:a wooden bench, poles,rolled up rug, etc. The change room stalls had no curtains, there was no rug, and a lovely built-in wall nitch had more storage type things in it:the vaccume cleaner, boxes, a broken mirror, etc. There were no rugs to step out onto from the font-just slippery tiles.

Elder VanWormer and I felt that baptism is such a holy ordainance that the baptistry should be clean and holy to reflect its sacredness.

We immediately put all the items into storage in the celler and cleaned everything up. Then we purchased a floral arrangement and doillie for the niche, a runner rug for the walkway, a wall mirror for the end of the walkway, rubber backed rug-mats for when you step out of the font, a mirror with a shelf for each stall, a hair brush for each mirror shelf, and yards and yards (actually it was meters and meters :) of white fabric to make curtains for the two stalls. Tonight Tom installed everything and it looks great! Can't wait for the next baptism...and according the missionaries there are 4 scheduled for next week!!

The front of our chapel at 41 Vasile Alecsandri, Chisinau, Moldova.

View of the back of the chapel and the tiled courtyard.

The detatched baptistry building, the courtyard, and the gate.

The font and room for those watching the baptism.

Tom mounting a mirror bracket for one of the changing stalls.

Ditto for the other changing stall mirror.

The new mirror & hairbrush. You can't see the stall rug we put in.

Hung the curtains.

Put flowers in the niche.

Waalaah...much better, don't you think!?!