Nate's Baptism

This last Sunday was our baptismal service at church. Nate was baptised at age 7, but since then has come to understanding the purpose of baptism far more. When this opportunity came up, he knew it was what he wanted to do, so here are some pictures of him, our friend Emily (also a friend from LBC) and one of our youth kids Scott. There were so many LBC grads who came for this service including Matt and Caroline Glidden from Alabama. Also my mom happened to be there due to the timing of our move and her helping us with all of that.
I did record Nate giving his testimony, but unfortunately our silly camera doesn't have excellent sound on it!
In short, Nate gave testimony to how he had made a decision to at the age of 5 to "become a Christian" but it wasn't until he was older that he fully came to a real understanding of what Christ did for each one of us. This baptism is an act of that understanding and an act of obedience that we were once dead in sin, but once Christ died on the cross for our sin it freed us of the eternal bondage we would have had. And now with our faith in Christ we are free of that sin and have a hope that we will be with Christ for eternity. We were once dead to sin, but now alive in Christ. It was great to have so many people there to support Nate and to celebrate in this decision.