One of those moments...

So, this past Wednesday night was our first ever Emerge Baptism service! Our group has done believer's baptisms before but we have always either done them with adults or with children. This was the first time we were able to have a special service with just our middle school students and celebrate each person individually!~ It was AWESOME! We had 43 students, leaders and even some parents get baptized that night! Being the emotional person I am, I usually cry every time someone gets baptized...there is just something so special about it to me! Anyway, I saved my tears til the end, because I was the emcee for the service and had to announce each person's name as they got into the water with Ryan. But when it came time for me to get into the water and baptize one of my high school girls who is now an Emerge leader...it was hard to hold it in! Ali has been one of my girls from day 1 when I moved here. She has been in bible studies, life groups, accountability groups, countless mission trips to Pittsburgh and Brazil with me over the last 4 years and so needless to say, I was completely honored when she asked me to baptize her last Wednesday night! I got choked up talking about her and how much she means to me and it was so true when I said it was one of the best moments of my life to get to baptize her! God showed up big time last week and I can't wait to see the fruits of these students who have now professed before their peers and parents that they will live to make Christ famous!!!! AMAZING stuff!!! Here are some pics of me and Ali during her Baptism!







So how do you follow up a Wednesday like that? Well, this week we are packaging 20,000 meals for Stop Hunger Now in 2 hours!!!! Yeah...we don't mess around!!! God is moving in the hearts and lives of students!!!