Tomorrow our Rainbow Baby will be baptised

Beatrice Hope

Bringer of Joy and Hope

Tomorrow is a time when we start to look forward

We begin to move forward

We move forward with our Rainbow in our arms

And our angel in our hearts

Tomorrow as friends and family gather in what will always be Tilda’s church

We will remember Matilda Mae together

We will fill the church with candlelight as we remember

And then with Tilda in our hearts

We will welcome Bea officially into our family and into the church

Matilda Mae was never christened

It will always be one of our biggest regrets

This will make tomorrow even harder than it will already be

Because of her absence

Tomorrow will be a day of joy, a day of hope

But there will be a great big hole

Where our cheeky, chubby girl should be

As always, as every day

One of us will be missing

Tomorrow we remember Tilda

Tomorrow we celebrate Bea

Here is our order of service for those who cannot be with us

We start at midday

Let it Be!

Greeting

Welcome

Introduction

Collect

Noah: A Special Promise
God was sad. Very sad. Everywhere he looked, he saw people making bad choices. Hating each other. Hurting each other.
Making a mess of his beautiful world.
‘I need to start all over again,’ God decided. ‘I need to make my world clean.’
And that’s when he talked to Noah.
Noah was not like the rest. He was a good man, and God knew it. So God told him to build a boat. A boat big enough to hold:
Noah,
His wife,
His three sons,
Their wives,
A pair of every animal in the world
And food enough to feed all of them for a very long time!
Noah’s family was surprised when he told them what he was going to do.
Noah’s neighbours thought it strange of him to build a boat so far from the sea.
And it wasn’t easy chasing, and catching and cleaning up after all those animals.
But Noah was a good man. He did what God told him – even when it was hard.
At last, when they were all tucked safely away in the boat, God shut the door. And then it started to rain.
It rained for forty days.
It rained for forty nights.
It rained harder than Noah had ever seen it rain before.
It rained so hard that the streams, and the rivers, and even the seas burst their banks and began to flood. Soon every sandy beach, every rocky path, every patch of muddy earth had disappeared beneath the water.
And the boat began to float.
It floated above the houses. It floated above the trees. It floated above the hills and then above the mountains too.
It floated for days and weeks and months.
And then it stopped, stuck at the top of a tall mountain.
Noah opened a window to look out. The water was going down, but the world was far from dry.
So he sent out a dove. And when the dove did not come back, Noah knew that it had found a dry place to build a nest.
‘Come out!’ God called finally. ‘Come out of the boat! The world is dry. The world is clean. And now you and your family and all the animals must have children and fill it full of life again!’
‘Hooray!’ Noah celebrated. And he thanked God for saving him.
God was happy too. So he painted the world’s first rainbow in the sky – to celebrate his fresh, clean world. And to promise that he would never send a flood like that again.
(Taken from The Lion Storyteller Bible)

The God Of Every Possible Comfort
2 Corinthians 1:3-7 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.”

Gospel Reading

Candles and Bubbles for Matilda Mae

The Liturgy of Baptism

Presentation of Beatrice Hope

Decision

The Things We’ve Handed Down
Don’t know much about you
Don’t know who you are
We’ve been doing fine without you
But, we could only go so far

Don’t know why you chose us
Were you watching from above
Is there someone there that knows us
Said we’d give you all our love

Will you laugh just like your mother
Will you sigh like your old man
Will some things skip a generation
Like I’ve heard they often can

Are you a poet or a dancer
A devil or a clown
Or a strange new combination of
The things we’ve handed down

I wonder who you’ll look like
Will your hair fall down and curl
Will you be a mama’s boy
Or daddy’s little girl

Will you be a sad reminder
Of what’s been lost along the way
Maybe you can help me find her
In the things you do and say

And these things that we have given you
They are not so easily found
But you can thank us later
For the things we’ve handed down

Signing with the Cross

Vicar’s Talk about Hope

Prayer for Beatrice Hope
May there be angels to guide you on your journey in life
And sprinkle you with their love and light
May you have the gifts of laughter and song
And be filled with dreams that last day all day long
May you live and care with kindness and grace
And know within your soul, courage and faith
May you be wrapped in the warmth of your family and friends
And may the rays of God’s love shine on you without end

Prayer Over The Water

Profession of Faith

Baptism

Commission

Welcome

Prayers

The Lords Prayer

Blessing

Giving of a Lighted Candle

The Rainbow
By: Christina Rossetti
Boats sail on the rivers,
And ships sail on the seas;
But clouds that sail across the sky
Are prettier than these.
There are bridges on the rivers,
As pretty as you please;
But the bow that bridges heaven,
And overtops the trees,
And builds a road from earth to sky,
Is prettier far than these.

Dismissal