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Baptism at Sun Valley

We are so thrilled you have made the choice in your personal walk with Jesus to be baptized. This is an act of spiritual worship, obedience and acknowledgment of Christ as Lord of your life. Thanks for wanting to share this part of your journey here at Sun Valley!

Please check back again soon as we post our next baptism dates.

Take a look at the photos of our previous baptism.

Why be Baptized?

Baptism by immersion is a representation of something which has already taken place in the heart of a person the moment he/she surrendered their life to Christ (1 Pet. 3:21). Baptism is the public acknowledgment of our death to self, burial, and resurrection of a new life we have found in Jesus Christ.

As a believer, we have been “crucified” (standing upright in water), we have been “buried” (immersed into the water), and we have been “resurrected into new life” (raised out of the water). This becomes a picture of a spiritual birth as defined in Rom. 6:3-5 and 1 Corinthians 12:13. It is the outward testimony of the believer’s inward faith. A sinner is saved the moment their faith is placed in the person of Jesus Christ. Baptism then, is a visible and public testimony to that faith.