Two new elders inducted

Last Sunday we inducted two new elders at church. Our church has quite a significant number of present members who have served as elders in the past. WE got them to line up across the front of the church in the order of which they served as elders. After some sorting out, we gave the earliest elder present a baton, and asked him to hold it high and then pass it on to the next one. We did this in turn until we reached the two retiring elders, who each passed a baton to one of the new elders. It was a bit of fun, but also was a visual display of the significance of being handed a baton, and then being able to pass it on to another.