India Mission Trip Report

Thank you for your prayers and support for this mission trip to India. It was amazing. Three of us from First Baptist Church, Kingsland, (Terry Taylor, Dr. Grady Miller, and myself) met our host in the Washington Dulles airport on Thursday, January 17.

Our first outing was to dedicate a new church building in a village. While we were in India we dedicated two other new church building, conducted a pastors conference for pastors, church leaders, and new believers (about 500 present). 

We baptized over 100 new believers. Terry and Grady baptized more than I did. As each person was baptized, they would make a verbal confession of Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior. Then, the pastor would ask them, “How long will you follow Jesus as your Savior and Lord?” They would answer back, “For the rest of my life.” One older lady said something more than the others and the crowd that was witnessing her baptism laughed at her answer. We learned later that to the question, “How long will you follow Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord?” she responded, “For the rest of my life, and just in case reincarnation is true, I will follow Jesus in my next life, too!”

We experienced the joy and power of the Lord on this trip. It was truly amazing. The three of us will be sharing in our worship service on Sunday, February 3. You can listen to the recording of it by Sunday afternoon on our web site, www.firstkingsland.com. Thank you again for your prayers. We could feel them.