{"id":2956,"date":"2013-08-20T08:20:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:24:27","slug":"black-sea-baptism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/black-sea-baptism\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Sea Baptism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for praying for our baptism. Our church gathered on the shore of the Black Sea at 8:30 on Sunday morning to watch 13 young people show their faith in Jesus through the act of baptism.<\/p>\n<p>I had the&nbsp;joyful opportunity of baptizing several of the youth alongside two other pastors from our church. I don&#8217;t think there is any task more exciting than baptizing a person whose heart and life have been completely changed by the Holy Spirit!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rcWax7MNLRI\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nAfter the baptism on the beach we headed back to church where I had the privilege of preaching to the newly baptized. I told them that now they have a responsibility to make disciples themselves.<\/p>\n<p>We ended the celebration with a meal for the whole church served outside in our yard.<\/p>\n<p>Please continue to pray for those who were baptized that they will grow in their faith. Our leadership recently decided that they will all go through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1615216391\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1615216391&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=sukfam-20\">Navigators 2:7<\/a> discipleship course. This will be a great way for them to start growing and learning more from the Bible.<\/p>\n<h4>Did you catch it?<\/h4>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t catch the last video update that Christina and I did you can <a title=\"A Big Announcement and Report on Girls Camp\" href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?p=2921\">find it here<\/a>. Our schedule is filling up fast so please <a title=\"Contact\" href=\"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/?page_id=608\">let us know<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for praying for our baptism. Our church gathered on the shore of the Black Sea at 8:30 on Sunday morning to watch 13 young people show their faith in Jesus through the act of baptism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry","tag-baptism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Capture.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-LG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2894,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/what-would-you-tell-someone-who-just-got-baptized\/","url_meta":{"origin":2956,"position":0},"title":"What Would You Tell Someone Who Just Got Baptized?","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"August 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"On August 18th our church is planning to baptize about 12 people. \u00a0We will gather on the shore of the Black Sea at 8:30 am where we will hold a short service and do the baptism. 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This past Sunday 8 people publicly confessed their faith in Jesus and were baptized in our home church, Discovery Baptist! 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