Baptism

I grew up in a Christian home, and my family has always been very supportive in my faith and has encouraged me to seek God. I don’t remember the exact date or what happened, but I became a Christian when I was four, but at that young of an age I didn’t understand what that meant at all. I knew that I had invited Jesus into my heart and that he was supposed to be my best friend, but it didn’t mean anything to me. I continued to attend church and started going to Promiseland weekly, but I started to try to get out of it because I didn’t have any kind of connection with God, and all of my friends had started to stop going. Thankfully, my mom didn’t let me skip, because in sixth grade, I moved up to Elevate. At Elevate I really started to feel a connection with God, and I would always want to go to church. I went on my first Breakaway retreat, and had my first spiritual high. But it wasn’t until Breakaway 2011 (my second time there), that I really felt moved by the Holy Spirit. I recommitted myself to Christ, and from that moment on I knew that I needed to get baptized. So on August 26, 2012 I experienced a feeling that I had never felt before. It literally felt like I was a new person when I came out of the water, and to publicly declare my faith in front of a group of people that love both me and the Lord was amazing. I had finally made my family’s faith my own. It was like God had given me a completely new start, and I felt God’s presence like I had never before.
To be completely honest, my life hasn’t been perfect since last summer. A lot has happened, and there are times where my connection with God has been really strong, but I’ve also had a few spiritual droughts. But I did know that God doesn’t promise us perfect lives when we follow him, and even with spiritual droughts, he’ll use them to build us up. Even though things have been up and down, getting baptized was one of the most significant and important milestones in my faith, and it