We've gone a bit quackers..!

 

As you've undoubtedly realised this is the website of Earlsfield Baptist Church in beautiful south west London. We have been leaving ducks in one form or another all over the place to help us meet you! This is all because on Easter Sunday we celebrated the resurrection of Jesus Christ and heard a strange tale that began with a storm in the north Pacific Ocean.

 

In early January the container ship the Evergreen Ever Laurel departed from Hong Kong destined for Tacoma in the State of Washington. On 10 January 1992, during a storm in the North Pacific Ocean  twelve 40-foot (12-m) intermodal containers were washed overboard. At some point one of these containers holding 28,800 rubber ducks opened and the ducks were released. Unlike many bath toys, these ducks had no holes in them so they did not take on water, instead they started to float. Some of the ducks landed along Pacific Ocean shores like Hawaii. Others traveled over 27,000 kilometres (17,000 mi), floating over the site where the Titanic sank, and spent years frozen in Arctic ice before reaching the shores of Britain some fifteen years after they went overboard.

 

Its an amazing story which has fascinated Oceanographers for decades - but what's it got to do with the Resurrection of Jesus Christ? What's it got to do with Easter? The followers of Jesus were an amazing, eclectic bunch made up of the whole range of people that make up any society. After the resurrection they went out from Palestine where they were based and began to tell people about Jesus; what He had done, what He had said, and what they had seen. They never changed their accounts of the resurrection and within a few years the message of Jesus had spread from Palestine to Syria into Turkey and Greece - even as far as Rome and German, and yes, these British Isles. Just like the ducks, the Good News of Jesus reached peoples and places like it was carried on the currents and tides of the sea, but this time it was people who shared and spoke and watched as the church grew. Today people still respond to the news of Jesus, news we would love to share with you. So please spend some time on this website and, if you have questions then come along to Earlsfield Baptist Church (just by the station opposite Sainsburys) at 11am any Sunday. If you are nowhere near SW18 you can join us on Zoom by dropping us a line through the contact page on this site.

 

For now please know God Loves You! And we look forward to meeting you