My favorite service of the year is this Sunday. It is the annual “Baptism at the Lake.” Regular services are cancelled, and we have a service outside at Lake Charles in Talbot. It begins with a fabulous potluck at noon, and then we have a worship time with testimonies mixed in by those getting baptized. The testimonies are people sharing their experience with Jesus and how they got to where they are spiritually on that day. The testimonies are amazing and are an incredible display of God’s work in people’s lives. After the testimonies and singing, we all go down to the Lake, just a few hundred feet away, and watch as people publicly declare that Jesus is Lord of their life. Baptism is a picture of dying to self, being buried, and then being resurrected to newness of life, where Jesus is running our lives now. I am pastoring at the Jefferson Evangelical Church, and we are joining Jefferson Baptist Church for this great event and Agape Family Fellowship in Albany. I don’t do much of the actual dunking anymore, just one person this time, but one of the highlights of my parenting and pastoring is that I got to baptize all eight of our kids. It is so rewarding to see all of them walking with Jesus and serving Him with their lives.