Mountain View Baptist Church Baptizes Three Generations

Pastor Don Williams has served the Mountain View Baptist Church with his wife Phyllis since 1992. They have many stories of how God has worked in amazing ways during their many years of service in the small town of Lancaster, NH. One such story had an exciting ending in November when three generations of one family were baptized. A few months ago Rhonda stopped by the church to speak to the pastor. She had grown up in Lancaster but had moved to Kentucky where she had heard about this unusual way of baptizing people called immersion. Most people in Lancaster would have been sprinkled as a child and very few people had seen a baptism done by immersion. But Rhonda felt that this was how she should be baptized and talked to Pastor Don about it. Though she was excited about expressing her faith in this way, various circumstances kept her from coming to church for some time. But one Sunday she and her daughter were able to attend the worship service and from that point on, she was hooked on Jesus! Rhonda’s daughter had previously believed that the Bible was just stories that people had written, but now she knows it is the Word of God as revealed by His Spirit to the biblical authors. Very soon after Rhonda started attending church, the members of her family began to make personal commitments to Jesus Christ. One Sunday, they all came forward together to make their private commitments to Jesus public before the church. They requested to be baptized by immersion as the Bible teachers. It just so happens that the church had been raising money to purchase an indoor baptistery so they could baptize new believers year round and not just in the summer at the local pond. On Sunday morning, November 22, 2009, three generations of Rhonda’s family, including Rhonda herself, were all baptized by immersion as a testimony of their faith in Jesus Christ. It was a glorious day. Since their baptism the entire family has thrown themselves into the service of the Lord. Pastor’s wife, Phyllis Williams, says, “The love the Lord so much they just can’t do enough for the Lord.”