Oh, Happy Day

This picture got over 140 likes and over 40 comments on Facebook. Wow! I guess this was a happy day for many of us!

I baptized Jon!! This was pretty much the coolest experience ever. Jon and I have talked about this for years, but this semester he decided it was time. What was holding him back was that he thought he needed to be perfect and have everything in his life in order before he could get baptized, but he realized that it'll be so much easier to have a godly life when Jesus is at the center of it. Once he made this decision, we started planning out a service that would be special for him to remember. All 40 of us went out to the beautiful Port Meadow where we sang, prayed, and blessed. Of course there were a few traditional hymns, but we also threw in some Bob Marley and Beatles music for us to sing that were significant songs for Jon. Jon also read two of his favorite Bible passages, and told everyone why he was making this decision. After this, we had a time when people could say a few words of blessing to Jon, and our friends spoke up to say the sweetest things about him. At this point, I was getting pretty nervous because it was about to be my part to get into the water, take his confession, and do the deed. Now I know that the point of his baptism was not to push my own feminist church agenda, but can I get an AMEN for a woman baptizing a man?! But, since I'm a woman, I felt like it had to be just right to prove that women can fulfill traditional men's roles just as well as men can. Turns out that I didn't need to practice or anything because that Holy Spirit did its thing, and everything went just great! The water was absurdly cold, but it was worth it for an awesome day and new life with Jesus started.