Believer baptism is available in worship throughout the year, and during the summer we celebrate with a special baptism event at Camp Geneva. Infant and child baptisms are scheduled throughout the year during the worship services.

The great Christian missionary Paul says this in Romans 10:9, If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised [Jesus] from the dead, you will be saved. Believer baptism in the early church was a sign and seal of a person’s profession of faith in the Lordship of Jesus Christ. So, when a person professes with their mouth that they believe in Jesus’ death and resurrection, we encourage them to be baptized as a sign and seal that marks receiving the grace of God in their lives.

Baptism itself does not save a person. Instead, baptism provides a moment in time where we mark the commitment a person has made to trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

In the Old Testament covenant that God made with Abraham, He promises to be God to Abraham, to his children, and to all who come after him. We practice the sacrament of infant baptism, in part, to recognize that God is still faithful in those promises to love us before we even have the capacity or desire to love God back.

We also celebrate infant baptism because parents or guardians and the church make a commitment to raise a child to come to know their God and His son Jesus Christ. Infant baptism, therefore, marks an inclusion into a faith community, not a choice to follow Jesus Christ. We pray and trust that the child will one day make a faith commitment themselves through a profession of their faith as adult believers.