Sunday 18th. September 1949.  I was baptised by immersion at Brentwood Baptist Church, by Rev. E, G. Keed.  The other candidates were Eileen Richardson and Myrtle Boyland.  The Bible verse given me was 2 Timothy 2 verse 15  (Authorised Version in use at that time)  'Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.'

This is the baptismal certificate given to me at the time, rather faded by the intervening almost 72 years!  Since then, I have endeavoured, with God's help, to keep to the promises made then.  I'm still working out on a daily basis the meaning of the printed verse on the certificate, in  the modern version The Message: 'Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ.'