9/11/16 My Baptism at Connection Church

Connection Church, located in Statesboro, Georgia, had baptisms on September 11, 2016. They had some in the 9 A.M. service and the 11 A.M. service. I got baptized in the second service with about 10 other people. They give you a shirt for you to wear when you are getting baptized and then you bring a change of clothes.

A little background info......

I started going to Connection Church back in the fall of 2014 and immediately fell in love with it. It's a nondenominational contemporary church. The building that it is held in is fairly new and very accommodating. The Senior Pastor is Brandon Williams.

Now onto my baptism..........

   The moment I went under the water and came up was an indescribable moment and I'm so blessed to have experienced it. There were 1,200 people in the second service watching me.....(pretty nerve-wracking). I signed up to be baptized back in July of 2016 one Sunday after church. I had always battled between two different beliefs of it, however, it became clear over the summer.

My two small group leaders were there to help celebrate with me as well (pictured above). When I saw them afterwards I started crying because it meant the world to have them there. They helped me come to the decision of being baptized in the first place, along with some more of my friends.

God put this on my heart and kept pushing me to sign up for about a year even when I was still researching what baptism was and why we should do it. The biggest question I needed answer was, "If I don't do it can I still go to Heaven?" and the answer is YES! Baptism isn't your ticket into Heaven, believing in Jesus and what He did for you on the cross is your ticket. Baptism is an outward expression of an inward change.

The two pictured above are two more of my friends that were there to support me. I couldn't of done it without my family and my friends. My mom, my best friend, and several other people I know where there to help support not just me but everyone who got baptized.


I'm blessed to have Connection in my life and I am now currently serving in what they call Konnection Kids (which is their kids ministry on Sundays). I work with two or three other adults in the four year old room. It's so rewarding to serve this church and more importantly my Lord & Savior.


God bless!

Lecie Fitzner