{"id":1274,"date":"2008-04-07T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/baptisms-yesterday\/"},"modified":"2014-05-19T23:55:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:55:43","slug":"baptisms-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/baptisms-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"Baptisms yesterday…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we once again took what is usually an annual pilgrimage to a public water park outside the city (in Cuautla) to baptize those who have come to faith recently. So yesterday morning we met at 7:30 a.m. (which was really 6:30 a.m., because we just changed over here to Daylight Savings Time) and went as a church in a 45 passenger bus and two vans. There were about 60 of us in all. <\/p>\n

Baptism here is a very public thing, because most churches don’t have baptistries. So we basically go to a public swimming area, pay to get in, have our service, then “take over” a section of the pool in front of everyone and do the baptisms. Invariably we draw a crowd.<\/p>\n

Yesterday 7 people from the church were baptized…always awesome to see. In addition, and this is pretty wild…we baptized 4 other Christians that happened to see what was going on, convinced us there were indeed Christians, and who had never been baptized, but wanted to be.<\/p>\n

This is the fourth baptism for Sendero de Vida.<\/p>\n

November, 2005 6 people
August, 2006 8 people
June, 2007 9 people
April, 2008 7 people (yesterday)<\/p>\n

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Yesterday we once again took what is usually an annual pilgrimage to a public water park outside the city (in Cuautla) to baptize those who have come to faith recently. So yesterday morning we met at 7:30 a.m. (which was really 6:30 a.m., because we just changed over here to Daylight Savings Time) and went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mexicomatters.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}