How/when/where were you baptized?

[Norman]

I was baptized in a baptistry in a church that did not have a heater, and the water was cold.

[seguidordejesus]

Baptized in the baptistry at First Pentecostal Church - Jackson, MS (the 2nd Robinson Road location) in July 1987 after camp meeting. Rev. Donald Moore baptized me.

[Margies3]

Where: First Apostolic Church, Toledo, Ohio (Fred Kinzie's church)
When: I think it was about 1969
How: In the name of Jesus'

Before that I had been sprinkled as an infant in the Methodist Church that my parents went to at the time.

I did not tell my parents I was going to be baptized that night. I was 14 years old and really should have talked with them about it. They wouldn't have objected if I had talked to them BEFORE I did it. But since I didn't tell them until after I got home, they were pretty angry with the folks at First Apostolic, as well as at the lady who had been taking me there and then at me. Ooops, big mistake on my part.

[Sam]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Where: First Apostolic Church, Toledo, Ohio (Fred Kinzie's church)
When: I think it was about 1969
How: In the name of Jesus'

Before that I had been sprinkled as an infant in the Methodist Church that my parents went to at the time.

I did not tell my parents I was going to be baptized that night. I was 14 years old and really should have talked with them about it. They wouldn't have objected if I had talked to them BEFORE I did it. But since I didn't tell them until after I got home, they were pretty angry with the folks at First Apostolic, as well as at the lady who had been taking me there and then at me. Ooops, big mistake on my part.

I can see why parents would be angry about a church baptizing their child without their knowledge or permission. I can also see a church refusing to baptize a minor without parental consent.

[Margies3]

Originally Posted by Sam

I can see why parents would be angry about a church baptizing their child without their knowledge or permission. I can also see a church refusing to baptize a minor without parental consent.

that's what they really should have done. Unfortunately, nobody even mentioned the idea of speaking to my parents before I was baptized. It was kind of like I was there and wanted to be baptized so let's just get this done. I didn't even understand the significance of being baptized in Jesus' name instead of the titles at that point. I just knew that in the book of Acts when people got saved, they got baptized. The church we attended only had baptismal services once a year because they had to borrow a church with a baptistry in order to do it. They baptized in the titles, but I didn't know that. I thought baptism was baptism. No big deal how it was done. I really should have received alot more instruction before anyone took me into that tank.

Oh well, it's all water under the bridge now.

[jaxfam6]

1970 at the Licking Valley Pentecostal Chapel, Hanover Ohio by my father, Marvin Jacks, in Jesus name. (I was 5) I happened to have my parents permission, seeing as how my dad was my pastor. =) Often thought I should do it again as an adult since I was really young and now that I am older I know what it truly is about. Haven't done it but have thought about it.

I used to swim in that baptismal tank. Baptized all my stuffed animals and pets in it. Now my cousins and friends all got baptized in the creek in front of the house. Didn't want any of their sins staying around so took them to the creek so that their sins could float down stream. =)

[Hoovie]

I brought my niece to church once (she was about 14) and folks started crowding her at the altar with various prayings and advice about getting baptized... I stepped in and said I thought that was a bad idea without having parental consent. I am sure some thought I was being harsh - but oh well.

[Hoovie]

I was baptized under water, in a tank at age 16, about 25 years ago.

[Sept5SavedTeen]

Originally Posted by Sam

I was baptized in Jesus' name in 1955.
That's before lots of y'all were born.
I'm old.
That makes me an elder.
And if I'm an elder, where is my respect.

Sometimes I feel like Brother Rodney Dangerfield, I get no respect.

That was before my parents were born... and before any of my grandparent's married (all marriages and births in my family have been legitimate for both their generations... just wanted to clarify, ).

-Bro. Alex

[Sherri]

Baptized in 1964 (7 years old) in a horse trough inside our church in Jesus' name. I was baptized in Grayville, IL and the water was NOT heated, thus the stammering lips. I didn't get the Holy Ghost until 8 or 9 years later.