A Georgia church baptized 114 people in one day. They called it a “day of harvest”.
Jason Britt is the pastor of Bethlehem Church, one of Georgia’s most evangelistic churches. But he said 114 baptisms on a single Sunday was beyond even his expectations.
He said, “We were blown away. It’s one of those things you don’t get to do every week, and you’re just grateful when God opens the door to do it.”
Bethlehem Church, with Sunday attendance of about 4,000 on its three campuses, is routinely one of Georgia’s top baptizing churches with 200 or more yearly since 2018.
On Aug. 22, 26 new believers were scheduled to be baptized at Bethlehem’s three campuses. However, dozens of others spontaneously made their way to the baptistries as well.
Britt told The Christian Index the church experienced one of those spiritual moments that can’t be manufactured, that can only be instigated by God.
He added, “Christians can sometimes overthink baptism. We put it off. We plan for it. We don’t have to process what Jesus has been clear about. You don’t have a relationship with God on your terms. We have a relationship with God on His terms, which is obedience.”
Britt told Baptist Press there were instances of husbands and wives being baptized together, husbands getting baptized in answer to their wives’ prayers and three generations of baptism in one family.