Last weekend we stopped all of our normal Sunday services and held one big celebration out in the parking lot. More than 600 people gathered around to watch as 44 people made an outward expression of an inward change. These people shared their stories, which ranged from being stabbed seven times and surviving to winning the battle with Leukemia. Women expressed their thankfulness to God for being released from addiction and abuse. Men cried as they told us that they were among the walking dead and that now they are alive in Christ. Others told stories of family members that never gave up on them, that kept praying for them when it seemed useless…look at them now.

This is weakness becoming strength at it’s best. As these people enter the water they are mounted upon a cross, and as they exit the water a crown is mounted upon their heads. Praise Jesus.