The candlelight service started with a baptism and included a reading of the first Christmas to young children.

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"I don’t think my feet touched the floor at the Easter vigil of 1994," recalls Jennifer Pixler of Maryland. "I felt such love, knowing that God was wiping out all my sins when I was baptized." ...

Yet, at the Community of Faith Church’s first-ever outdoor baptism for the homeless, “Alive by Faith,” a long line wound toward the portable baptismal pools, where one by one, men and women stepped ...

FLEMINGTON - Cherryville Baptist Church held its annual riverside baptism Sunday morning. This is the third year the church has done the riverside baptism, which took place alongside the Raritan River ...

(RNS) — Reported baptisms declined in eight of the last 10 years and dropped by more than 100,000 since 2009, according to the denomination's Annual Church Profile. (RNS) — Weather permitting, 10 ...

The swimming pool being set up at Koinonia Christian Center Church on Saturday is not to welcome summer. It is to welcome sinners. The church, at 1405 S.W. Greenville Blvd., will host a citywide ...

SBC leaders hope newly launched Baptism Sunday will help boost numbers. Weather permitting, 10 members of a new Southern Baptist church on Cape Cod will be dipping in the ocean this weekend, but it ...

(RNS) The sprinkling-style baptism of a Dayton, Ohio, infant—a scene heartwarming and commonplace for Catholics and many mainline Protestants—is touching off accusations of doctrinal heresy in the ...

Since 1947, the Ashley Tabernacle Church of God in Christ has held an annual baptism service in the Susquehanna River at Columbia. Borough resident and photographer Joe Lintner captured some scenes ...

But local Baptist pastors are saying that infant baptism is still against the denomination's belief. The concept has split the Christian church for centuries. Infant baptism speaks to the larger ...