Baptize!!

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in them in the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit…”

- Matthew 28:19

Being a God adventurer means that you sign up for the scavenger hunt of a lifetime, the treasure hunt of existence.  It means that you live to search out the beauty of souls coming back to their creator for freedom, restoration and life. 

“Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.” 

- 2 Corinthians 5:17

“For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.” 

- Galatians 3:27

When a newly saved disciple decides to symbolically lay their former life down in water and rise up as this new creature, they become the object of a treasure hunt.  I have found some of the world’s most radiant, priceless and breathtaking diamonds and pearls in shallow kiddy pools.  They are immediately transformed into priceless gems, sons and daughters of the King, glimmering radiantly in their new royal apparel!

This video is from 2008, during the week of Christmas in Ethiopia, five young men met Jesus in our Saturday night Church meeting.  That next brilliantly sunny afternoon, after Samuel had spent time discipling them about baptism in water, they were ready to symbolically lay their lives down and begin walking the rest of their existence and eternity thereafter with Jesus.  However, our base was without water... some missionaries, translators and other disciples set out on a quest to obtain jugs which would eventually fill the homemade baptismal we had constructed from 4 benches, a tarp and a few bricks.  The compound erupted in “Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!” when these newly baptized young people rose from the water! (We even reused that water for washing dishes and clothes sometimes!)

(It was really cold water.. but worth it!)

My hub wrote a great [blog] about baptism in the Holy Spirit and water ... actually the majority of his blogs has something to do with baptism! So check it out!

My first time baptizing in Bulgaria!
At the hot springs - organically brewed, spa-treatment, baptismal tank!

A group of new-saved disciples from a nearby village... getting ready to be baptized together with the pastors of Harar Church of Joy! Pastor Ashagre in white and Pastor Mohammed in plaid!

Me baptizing in Ethiopia!

Mohammed and a newly clothed-in-Christ Jesus lover!

Here, Ashagre is baptizing an incredible man - Dawit!