Yesterday was a historic day at our church plant.  We have been meeting for about a year and were able to see our first baptisms.  On Sunday we were able to baptize 7 people at Percy Priest Lake.  It was an incredible experience.    We were praying that the weather would hold because it had been raining for 3 solid days and it was forecasted to be thunderstorms all afternoon.  Brad, my copastor, and I prayed about it and decided that we needed to go ahead with our original plan of a cookout and baptisms at the lake.  Surprisingly, although it rained mildly, we didn’t have any torrential downpour or thunderstorms.  We had a large turnout for the baptisms.  It was awesome.

I will try to post some pictures tonight, but for now, here are 2 videos from Mike and Mandy: 2 of the 7 people who got baptized.

Mandy’s Video

Mike’s Video

Sunday  morning at church was a great day for us too.  We dedicated 3 families who had just recently had new born children.  The message I taught was on Going Public, based out of Acts 8:26-39.  If you want to hear the podcast, just click the link to listen: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=274809927