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Do you want to get baptized? Then you have come to the right place because we don't judge you. We will not discriminate based on your religion, whether you attend church or not, your life style, sex, race, color.  That is not our job.  That job has been set aside for God the Father!

Whether you are a child, adolescent, teenager or an adult ... baptism is the first step into your new world as a new person.  Do you feel alone?  Do you feel like no one cares about you?  Do you feel like people talk about you in a negative way leaving you with scars that never seem to heal? Do you find yourself withdrawing from society because you don't think your good enough? Jesus does care and that is why in baptism you will never be alone again.

It was written in scripture long before the birth of Jesus that God was sending his son who's death on the cross would set us free from sin. Jesus died for us so that our sins would be forgiven. God loves us! 

A Christian is a person who is “dedicating their life to Jesus Christ.” OK!  A Christian is also a person who is living their life in a good way.  Like Jesus, helping others, putting other people first, volunteering their help, a person who does bad mouth other people, a person who is not disrespectful of others. God's primary command is for us to become better people, to become more understanding, more loving, more compassionate, more caring, and that we become more loving through our relationships with other people.

When you decide to become baptized you are creating a new identity of who you are and  baptism celebrates becoming that new person. In the church the ritual of baptism begins with putting off the old, renouncing sin and the evil powers of the world, and pledging your loyalty to Jesus Christ. It is said that baptism is necessary to be a child of Christ and to enter into Heaven's gates. Living in harmony with God and the world around you also opens Heaven's gates.

In baptism God initiates a covenant with us, announced with the words, “The Holy Spirit works within you, that being born through water and the Spirit, you may be a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ.” This is followed by either the laying hands on the head, or the signing of the cross on the forehead with oil or water. The most usual form of baptism among Early Christians was for the people to stand in water and water to be poured over the upper body.  

The baptism of Jesus is one of the most authentic events in the life of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ and his earliest disciples accepted the validity of John's baptism. Early Christians practiced a baptism of repentance in relation to the forgiveness of sins.  Baptism is anointed in the name of Jesus Christ. Baptism has its origin in the baptism of Jesus, in both a direct and historical sense.

How many times have you heard someone say, “I had a Catholic Baptism,” or “I had a Methodist Baptism,” “I had a Presbyterian Baptism,” which could mean that in baptism they got their identity papers and that was the end of it. Or do they mean their baptism was better that yours because they are Catholic, Jewish, Protestant, Mormon, Muslim, Presbyterian?

Sometimes when a person receives baptism it's the end of their spiritual journey .. why because they received baptism and that's all they think they needed to do.  Is not the end. It is the beginning of a lifelong journey of faith. It makes no difference whether you received baptism as a child, adolescent, teenager or an adult; we all start on that very same journey at baptism. 

For the child, the journey of baptism begins in a nurturing community, where he or she learns what it means when someone tells them, "God loves you!" At the appropriate time, that person might make his or her first confession of faith in the ritual the church traditionally calls confirmation, or maybe not depending on his or her belief system. 

And Jesus came and said to them, 

"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age."

  .............Matthew 28:18-20

 If you would like to receive baptism for your child, children or yourself, please ... give us a call and we will make your baptism a very special day to remember. We will perform your baptism ceremony at any location in the states of MA, RI, CT, and NH.

Reverend Dr. Betty Ann Breault

Ordained Non-denominational Minister