Baptisms 2015
2015 Baptisms
by Michael J. Miller, Jr.
This year we want to express what a blessing it has been in hosting our teams and working with our youth groups in seeing growth through the challenging teachings God has put on our hearts in conveying the Truth of Jesus and His Gospel to all those who enter our lives. We make sure to take advantage of spreading the Love of Jesus and making sure we ask those tough questions that probe ones soul and heart. During the last year we asked, “Why are you here?”. This year we asked “Quien eres tu?” (Who are you?). With both of these questions we expanded on the Gospel in asking are the promises of Jesus real or not and if they are real why are we not laying hands, speaking about the forgiveness of Jesus and performing the miracles that Jesus did from changing water into wine. All the photos represent the change that Jesus performed with the 6 clay jars of water by changing it into wine. Each person Baptized in the name of Jesus is not just any new wine but the best wine for the Kingdom of God. In the first photo is our first Baptism we had for 2015 in March by Baptizing Cristian’s Mom, Jennifer Nicoll, her sister Andrea, Victor, and Luis Emilio. All of them just came to Christ and are born again and baptized! In the 2nd and 3rd photos each girl from the Elmira College Team (April) came individually and privately to express that they wanted to be Baptized. So Charlea, Jessica, Julia, and Angela made a commitment to Jesus to change and grow spiritually and to publicly profess their faith. In the 4th photo with our June Victory Highway Team, it was the prayer of Brad Hinman who led the team and is a part of BBM board to see his wife Janet and his daughter Amy who received Jesus as her Savior two years ago on a missions team with BBM to be Baptized. They were with a young lady named Cahlan who was touched by the Holy Spirit to be re-baptized.
With our July and August teams we were blessed to see Jennifer, Camden, Joshua, Michele, and her husband Michael all be Baptized. In the last photos that are at the bottom of the page are the Baptisms of Anna Marie, Elena, and Jesus Cristo. All of them are from our youth groups and are sponsored children. The Praises is that each person from our March Baptisms to our last Baptism in August all received more than just a water Baptism. They received a Baptism of the Holy Spirit. This Baptism of the Spirit has changed each person, has healed some from broken and unhealed hearts, healed others from a past that they couldn’t forgive themselves, and so much more. Many of them thought they were forgotten but they left Honduras feeling they are accepted, loved and can speak more boldly for Jesus Christ. This anointing carried through the teams its members, during the devotion times, and also on the job many times. It was God’s Time. It is God’s time to change all of us. To bring us back into His arms and into His calling. We can’t ignore the question, “Who are you?” This question challenged team members to say they can’t run like a Rhino but in time are claiming just that. Many couldn’t explain what they felt but they felt a peace that has transcended and covered them completely from head to toe. All it takes is for us to just say Yes and not be afraid of any calling that our Lord may have. To be water changed into wine is to receive the salvation and live out the Gospel in Glorifying Jesus in all we do. Jesus taught this lesson only to His Disciples. Are you one of His?
