Sponsored by area churches Bethesda Fellowship Church, Clearview Baptist, and Living Word Tabernacle, the event, featuring prayer, preaching, and performance, brought the area faithful together for the fourth time this year.
Earlier events brought new believers to the river for baptism at the hands of BFC lay ministers and their families.
The performance at the park bandshell, featuring recorded music and live dance, told the story from the Book of John in the Bible, when an accused adulteress is brought before the townspeople, who demand she be put to death. Jesus intervenes, telling the crowd, “Let him who is without sin cast the first stone,” causing the people to shuffle away, as none is blameless. Jesus then forgives the woman, telling her to “go and sin no more.”
Nicole Moore of BFC, one of the main organizers, later reported that some 14 people were baptized in the river in the northwest corner of the park.
“The last baptism was the mom of someone who was helping baptize others,” Moore said. “The Lord gave someone in the crowd a word for her and then they told her that they believed that she should get baptized. Then her own daughter got to baptize her. It was beautiful!” Moore wrote.
