Two Baptist churches in Louisville, KY say “God moved powerfully” during a joint Sunday service held near the Ohio River which resulted in 1,000 people in attendance, 37 water baptisms, and 31 souls saved.
GracePointe Baptist Church and Beechland Baptist hosted a combined worship service called “Church by the River” on Sunday at Veterans Memorial Park in West Point, Kentucky. The service began at the park and quickly moved to the river for water baptisms.
The outreach event was a six-month undertaking that took dozens of volunteers and help from The Kentucky Baptist Convention and Kentucky Baptist Foundation, Kentucky Today reports. The churches paid to rent the property and provided food and drinks for people who decided to stay for dinner afterward.
Pastor Mark Bishop oversees both congregations and told the outlet that besides the regular church attendees there were “hundreds of visitors,” which totaled about 1,000 people at the event.
“We have had revivals at church where we had seven or eight baptisms, but we’d never done anything like that before,” Bishop said. “I led a guy to Christ at 6 in the morning. Him and his whole family came and got baptized.”
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