Baptism Sunday (March 5, 2023)!

On Sunday, March 5, 2023, at Wildwood Community Church, we celebrated the baptisms of 19 people.  Join us in praising God for His work in people’s lives!  Below you will find links to the video stream of the 3 worship services (NOTE: the 8:30 and 11:00 services only include the baptism portions, while the 9:45 service has the entire service).  You will also find a link to the audio of the sermon (which was only preached at the 8:30 service due to time constraints in the later two hours).  Also, you will find a link to only the baptism testimonies.

Video from the 8:30 Service (baptism portion):

 

Video from the 9:45 Service (full service):

 

Video from the 11:00 Service (baptism portion):

 

8:30 Sermon audio to listen to offline (click link):

Baptism Sunday 3.5.23

 

8:30 Sermon audio via online player:

Vimeo Channel with baptism testimonies only:

March 2023 Baptism Testimonies

Baptism Sunday: March 5, 2023 PREVIEW

On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at Wildwood Community Church, we will be celebrating the baptisms of 19 of our people!  We will gather in our 8:30, 9:45, and 11:00 worship service, sing praise to God, pray for our mission team that is going to serve in the Middle East over Spring Break, hear the testimonies and witness the water baptisms of 19 people, and even look at Acts 2:37-41 together.  I can’t wait for this Sunday!!!!

As is our tradition on baptism Sundays, we will not have our adult/college/student/elementary classes meet (only our early childhood – Pre-K and below will be meeting.)  The rest of us will be “all in” the worship center celebrating God’s faithfulness!  Hope to see you Sunday in one of our morning services.  See the graphic below to know who is being baptized in which service.

November 2022 Baptism Sunday Recap

On Sunday, November 20, 2022 at Wildwood, we had the great joy of baptizing 22 individuals who had placed their faith in Christ.  Before each of their baptisms, we heard the story of how God had worked in their lives, then we got to witness their water baptism as an outward picture of their inner connection to Jesus.  Below you will find links to the baptisms in each service, as well as a link to the Vimeo channel that includes all of their testimonies.  Join us in praising God for His great work!  As we sang today, “How Great Thou Art!”

To watch the 8:30 service baptisms, use this YouTube video online:

 

To watch the 9:45 service baptisms (and full service), use this YouTube video online:

 

To watch the 11:00 service baptisms use this YouTube video online:

 

To access the Vimeo channel with all 22 testimonies shared this morning, click here.

 

Also, in the 8:30 service, time allowed for a longer sermon (than in the other two services).  This sermon is podcasted for those who missed it and be can downloaded or shared.

To listen offline to the 8:30AM service sermon, click on the link:

Baptism Sunday 11.20.22

 

To listen online, use the media player below:

Baptism Sunday Preview (November 20, 2022)

At Wildwood we are FOR following JESUS together to the glory of God. Because of that, we celebrate when people begin to follow Jesus, and Baptism is a time for the church congregation to celebrate these beginnings! This Sunday (November 20) at Wildwood, we will have the privilege of seeing 22 people baptized. We will hear their stories, pray over them, rejoice with them, and witness their water baptism. We will also sing of Jesus’ goodness, open God’s Word together, and be encouraged as we head into Thanksgiving week together as a church family. Hope you can join us in our 8:30, 9:45, or 11:00 service!

  • NOTE: On baptism Sundays (as is our tradition) we do not run our elementary, student, college, or adult Sunday morning classes. All Kindergarten and up will be in the worship service together for these services. What a great chance for us to celebrate as a church family!
  • NOTE 2: See the attached pic with details about who is being baptized in which service.
  • NOTE 3: At noon on Sunday, we will begin decorating the church for Christmas.  If you and your family would like to stay and help with this festive event, we’d love to have you!!!  Meet in the Gathering Hall at 12:15.

 

Baptism Sunday Preview (August 7, 2022)

At Wildwood we are FOR following JESUS together to the glory of God. Because of that, we celebrate when people begin to follow Jesus, and Baptism is a time for the church congregation to celebrate these beginnings! This Sunday (August 7) at Wildwood, we will have the privilege of seeing 13 people be baptized. We will hear their stories, pray over them, rejoice with them, and witness their water baptism. We will also sing of Jesus’ goodness, open God’s Word together, and be encouraged as we begin the month of August together as a church family. Hope you can join us in our 8:30, 9:45, or 11:00 service!

  • NOTE: On baptism Sundays (as is our tradition) we do not run our elementary, student, college, or adult Sunday morning classes. All Kindergarten and up will be in the worship service together for these services. What a great chance for us to celebrate as a church family!
  • NOTE 2: See the attached pic with details about who is being baptized in which service.
  • NOTE 3: We will also get to hear a special testimony from Scott Stonehocker, our dear brother in Christ who went home to be with the Lord over the summer, but recorded a powerful testimony for us to watch together this Sunday as a part of all 3 services. What a great day! See you Sunday.
  • NOTE 4:  We will also have a few very special announcements for our entire church family.  Don’t miss it!

Baptism Sunday – March 6, 2022

On Sunday, March 6, 2022, at Wildwood Community Church, we celebrated the baptisms of 17 individuals.  Before these baptisms in our 8:30 and 9:45 worship service, I shared a few thoughts about baptism in light of our recent study of Revelation 1-3.  Below you will find links to the videos of the services, audio from the message in the first two services, and slides from the message in the first two services.

 

To listen to the message offline, click the link:

Baptism Sunday 3.6.22

 

To listen online, use the media player below:

 

To watch the baptisms from the 8:30 Service, use YouTube:

 

To watch the 9:45 full service stream, use YouTube:

 

To watch the baptisms from the 11:00 service, use YouTube:

For a link to all the baptism testimonies from this morning, click here.

Baptism Sunday – March 6, 2022 Preview!

Friends … this Sunday is BAPTISM SUNDAY at Wildwood. Join us in our 3 morning services as we celebrate with 17 individuals who have trusted in Jesus as their Savior and will expressing their faith in Him through water baptism. We will worship, reflect on this moment from God’s Word, hear their stories of transformation, and PRAISE GOD TOGETHER. If you have been around Wildwood for a while, you know that on Baptism Sundays, we all gather in the worship center during our three morning services (with the exception of our birth-preK that have their classes still running during the 9:45 and 11:00 services). No adult, college, middle/high school, or elementary school aged classes meeting this Sunday. Make plans to join us! These are some of my favorite times of the year.

Baptism Sunday – November 21, 2021 Stream

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at Wildwood Community Church, we celebrated with 23 people who professed their faith in Christ and were baptized.  Below you will find the links to the streams of these services, as well as a link to the Vimeo channel where all the testimonies can be watched that were shown this morning.

 

9:45 Worship Service (Stream of entire service):

 

8:30 Worship Service (Baptism & Testimonies only):

 

11:00 Worship Service (Baptism & Testimonies only):

 

Vimeo Channel with just the Baptism Testimonies can be accessed by clicking here.

Audio of the Sermon (listen offline):

Baptism Sunday 11.21.21

 

Audio of Sermon listen online:

Baptism Sunday (November 21, 2021) Preview!!

On Sunday, November 21, 2021 at Wildwood Community Church, we will be gathering in our 3 morning worship services (8:30, 9:45, 11:00) to celebrate the water baptisms of 23 Wildwood folks who have placed their faith and trust in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior … and they want the world to know!  What a privilege for us to be able to celebrate with them the gift of baptism … a symbol Jesus gave to His church to commemorate in a meaningful way someone’s connection to Christ.

If you have not been to Wildwood on a baptism Sunday before … don’t miss this week!  Come and worship with us!  We will spend time singing, hearing the stories of faith of those being baptized, celebrating with them in their baptisms, and talking a bit more about what baptism is all about.  We can’t wait to have you join us this weekend!

Know that on baptism Sundays (we have 3 each year), we do not have any elementary, middle school, high school, college, or adult Sunday school classes meeting on this day. (NOTE:  nursery and preschool classrooms will still be running during our 9:45 and 11:00 services.)  We do this INTENTIONALLY, to create more opportunities for our entire church family to celebrate what Jesus has done in the lives of our people.

Each person who will be baptized will be doing so upon their personal profession of faith in Christ.  This means that those being baptized are not just baptized because they are a certain age, or come from a  certain family … but they are baptized because they have personally trusted in Jesus Christ as their Savior — they have come to Him for their soul rest, and are deciding to walk with Him in their lives.  Therefore, the 23 people being baptized come from a number of different stages of life:  7 are elementary aged children, 4 are middle or high school students, 9 are college aged, and 3 are adults older than college aged.  Join us as we hear each of their stories of faith this Sunday!

Below you will see a graphic with the names of those being baptized, and which service they will be baptized in.  Some of you may even want to attend multiple hours of worship this Sunday to celebrate with friends being baptized in different services.  See you Sunday … and bring friends!