Baptism

Shortly after the kids moved in with us, they each decided to give their hearts to God. The natural next step is baptism, but at that time they weren't allowed. Since the adoption wasn't final for at least 6 months, one of the rules is that they are not allowed to participate in any religious ceremony before the adoption is final. (I know this probably didn't really apply to our kids since the parent's rights were already terminated before we got them, but I really didn't want to take the risk and jeopardize the adoption in any way, so we chose to wait it out until the adoption was final.) Since then (almost 2 years ago) life has been busy and quite honestly I was waiting for our Pastor to have a baptism service and it just never came up.

So today, our kids were finally baptized.  During the time we have been talking to them about what baptism means since they asked Jesus into their hearts, we have gotten all kinds of responses from them.  Each of them had their share of being scared or not wanting to be in front of the people.  I really had to work on Daniel more than the girls because even though he does love God, he really gets performance anxiety when he thinks everyone is watching him. But today they woke up excited and ready to get baptized and I was grateful!

Katelynn

Daniel

Haley

I am so proud of each of them for taking this big step and they were all able to be baptized on the same day (which I think is pretty cool, even if they don't care.)

Praise God for kids who have chosen to serve him and who are taking steps to love him more each day and make a difference in the lives of those around them.