Faith Helps Family Pull through Tragic Loss: Friends, Church Finish Renovating House

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Toronto

`We thank you Father for the water

of baptism.

In it we are buffed with Christ in

his death.

By it we share in his resurrection.'

THE WORDS which rang out at baby Adelaide Black's joyful baptism at Little Trinity Church in Toronto carried far more weight than anyone could foresee.

The day of his youngest daughter's baptism was Bruce Black's 34th birthday. That afternoon there was a double christening and birthday party.

It was also a family reunion. Adelaide's maternal grandmother, Joy Biswas, had just returned from seven months in Lahore, Pakistan volunteering as a house mother at Kinnaird College for Women, the Christian school she had attended as a young girl.

Mr. Black had just returned from working in Paris where he had been joined by his wife, …