{"id":10632,"date":"2024-05-29T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=10632"},"modified":"2024-05-29T09:14:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T13:14:22","slug":"record-breaking-mass-baptism-event-sees-over-12000-baptisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2024\/05\/record-breaking-mass-baptism-event-sees-over-12000-baptisms.html","title":{"rendered":"Record-Breaking Mass Baptism Event Sees Over 12,000 Baptisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10638\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10638\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2024\/05\/mass-baptism-california_credit-@baptize.california-Instagram.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">@baptize.california \/ Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A mass, inter-denominational baptism event over Pentecost Sunday saw over 12,000 people get baptized in California. The baptisms were part of Baptize California, which involved hundreds of churches across the state including Saddleback Church, with a main event being held at Huntington Beach. There were two days of worship at Huntington, with over 19,000 people coming to the beach to participate. There were spontaneous baptisms on Saturday and planned baptisms on Sunday, totaling more than 6,000 people being baptized at Huntington Beach alone. More than 6,000 other people were baptized across the state at other participating locations. \u201cYou can smell another Great Awakening in the air like rain before it hits. God lit a match yesterday! If God can do this in the church in California, it can \u2014 and it will \u2014 happen in the rest of America!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2024\/05\/20\/god-lit-a-match-satanist-accepts-jesus-during-history-breaking-mass-baptism-as-12000-people-immersed-in-california\/\">said<\/a> Pastor Mark Francey, the event\u2019s founder. Last year\u2019s Baptize SoCal saw 4,200 hundred baptisms. 12,000 blows both that number and Greg Laurie\u2019s 4,500 out of the water.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Feucht, who led some of the worship at the Huntington event, praised how God always responds. \u201cThis is another wave of God moving in [California], a state that people think is too far gone because it\u2019s too dark, or it\u2019s too oppressive. But yet God always has a response, and his response is revival,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/churchleaders.com\/news\/478388-sean-feucht-saddleback-church-zoe-church-baptize-california.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cHis response is salvations. His response is families reconnected. His response is historic church unity. His response is baptisms. His response is prodigal sons and daughters coming home, and we witnessed all of that yesterday.\u201d Francey said they saw over 1,000 people accept Christ, including a Satanist. \u201cYou could see the change immediately,\u201d said Francey. He compared it to \u201cliving in the pages of the books of Acts!\u201d Not only did the event seek to baptize people, but it also sought to disciple them by connecting them to local churches.<\/p>\n<p>There have been stories across the nation of mass revivals and baptisms across the nation, with movies like \u201cThe Jesus Revolution\u201d sparking a fire for more mass events. Francey, who began his vision to baptize Southern California last year and then expanded it to the entire state for this year, is ready to push things even further. \u201cNow we are gearing up to do this and unite the church all over America,\u201d he said. The next event is called <a href=\"https:\/\/baptizecalifornia.com\/\">Baptize America<\/a> and seeks to unite churches all across the country in a mass baptism event. It is slated to be next Pentecost, June 8, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mass, inter-denominational baptism event over Pentecost Sunday saw over 12,000 people get baptized in California. The baptisms were part of Baptize California, which involved hundreds of churches across the state including Saddleback Church, with a main event being held at Huntington Beach. 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