Bara Baptism

This morning after our church services we had a baptism ceremony. Originally only one girl was planning to get baptized and we ended up having 5 more people decide to join her! How awesome is that?!?! 

This is our new friend Beth that started coming to Bara only a few months ago. Her love for Jesus and desire to know God more is so evident. I was so excited to see her get baptized!!!!

Hugs all around! Baptism is a joyful thing to be celebrated!!!!! 

This is our friend Jake. I think Jake's face shows how cold that water was. Yikes! Don't worry, we had towels waiting.

I taught Sunday school for the pre-k class and thankfully we got to take our kiddos outside for the baptism. We had talked about the story of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus and we talked about how some people were getting baptized....my friend's little girl got a bit confused and thought that she was going to have to be baptized...she told her mom that she loved Jesus but didn't want to get "sanitized" today :) Speaking of my Sunday school lesson, I saw the photo below that somebody had taken on my camera and was immediately reminded of the following verse:

After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him

Matthew 3:16

Wow. Can you imagine what that would have been like to be standing there when Jesus was baptized? To hear God publicly, audibly affirm that Jesus was His Son? Think on that.