A Beautiful Day on the Beach

This past Saturday, we had our annual worship and baptisms on the beach.

It's seriously one of my most favorite things our church does each year.

This year was really special because we had 9 people get baptized! And we had the biggest group out there that we've ever had.

My husband and I and my friend S.W. headed out there early to hit up one of our favorite places near the beach before everything started. We arrived there around 10am and it was freezing (58 degrees outside)! We ended up eating lunch pretty soon after we got there just to stay warm. We also spent a lot of time in the arcade since it was warm in there.

My husband makes friends wherever he goes

We then stopped at our favorite ice cream place on our way to the beach. S.W. had never been there before, so that was pretty exciting. I got banana ice cream and heath bar ice cream. Yum!

It was a lot warmer when we arrived at the beach, thankfully. We got there pretty early so there weren't very many people there yet. But people just kept pouring in after us! It was such a blessed time of hanging out with our toes in the sand and the ice cold ocean water, eating good food, sharing one another's company, and eagerly awaiting the start of the evening.

Some of my Insta's from the day (I used the Over app for the one on the left)

The worship was so good. The guys leading us picked great songs. The testimonies were amazing. I seriously wish each and every one of you could have heard the awesome stories these people shared of where their lives were and what Christ has done in them since then. So beautiful. And the baptisms were incredible. It seriously is so amazing to watch someone symbolize their old life being left in the grave and emerging as a brand new person.

You can't even see all of the people that were there in this pic

My hubby took these pics. I love the emotion behind them

We sang the song Beautiful Things after baptisms. And what a perfect song to sing. God makes beautiful things out of the dust, out of us.

Some of the others that were baptized

It was such a beautiful day and I'm so thankful we were able to be there again.