Baptized!

A foster mom's story... “The first night we had Andy, he was very scared. The anxiety he experienced was on a whole other level than I had ever seen in a child before. When we tucked him into bed that night, we prayed over him and for him. We did this every night and one night he asked to pray. He started asking to pray in the morning before school and in the evening at bedtime. It wasn’t long before he would say, 'I just love God so much.'

One day, I was in the kitchen and I wasn’t feeling well. Andy asked me what was wrong, and I just said I had a headache. He stopped playing and came over and prayed, 'Dear God, please help mama’s headache to go away now in Jesus’ name. Amen.' Then went back to playing. This continued and became more frequent.

A while back, Andy told us he wanted Jesus to be his forever friend. I asked him what that meant and he said, ‘Well, I love God and God loves me. Jesus died on the cross so I can be with God forever and ever.' Well, he got that. Some adults don’t even get that.

We talk about the Gospel constantly, and grace is a regular word in our vocabulary in our home. So, when Andy started asking about being baptized, I asked him why he wanted to. He said, ‘Because I want everyone to know that I love God and Jesus is my forever friend.’ So we talked with our pastor and he asked Andy all the questions. Andy understands grace, the Gospel, and what it means to love God with your everything. So Andy got baptized.

We are blessed to have this boy in our lives.”