Baptisms – September 28, 2025

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Below are the testimonies for those who were baptized on Sunday, September 28, 2025. We celebrate with them as they take this step in their journey with Christ.

9:30 am Baker Center

Abigail Sollenberger

Hi my name is Abigail Sollenberger and I have been going to King Street Church my whole life.

Today I want to get baptized to show everyone that I am a Christian, to tell everyone about His unending faithfulness in my life, and to show that no matter how dark life gets and no matter how far you travel from the Lord, He will always chase you down. During my first week of college two years ago I was violently, sexually, physically, and emotionally assaulted. After that happened I locked myself in my room and did not talk to anyone for the rest of the weekend. I remember laying awake in the middle of the night sobbing and crying out to the Lord asking Him what I had done to deserve this. A couple days later I called my parents and told them what happened. Immediately, I had lots of support and kindness from them, my family and the few friends I told. Despite the fact I was surrounded by love, and always with people, I had never felt more alone in my life. I had this empty, hollow feeling inside of me that I could not fill. I kept crying out to God in pain, loneliness, shame, and anger and was met with complete and utter silence. Did God not love me anymore? Was I too broken for Him?

During this time I listened to the song Rescue Story by Lauren Daigle over and over in the middle of the night when I woke up with nightmares, and I clung to the hope that God would rescue me from the pain I was feeling. I tried to fill this pain and loneliness with things that were not glorifying God. I ended up dating a guy that was not a Christian. I knew the relationship was not healthy but I was desperate to fill the hole inside me. We eventually broke the relationship off. This was a turning point for me. Around this time I began to do devotions and reconnect with God again but every time I opened the Bible I just got so angry I could barely make it five minutes. I had still been going to church this whole time but more to go through the motions then anything else. On many occasions me opening the Bible ended with me yelling at Him though sobs that shook my whole body. This went on for months until slowly I began to see a change in me.

It was not a magical moment in which I was cured of the past and my relationship with God was suddenly perfect. It has been slow and painful steps in the right direction towards healing. I am never going to be completely over what happened to me and I am still working on healing my relationship with God. However, I want to be baptized today to show how far God has brought me towards healing and redemption and to show everyone that I am a believer and am stepping away from the shame and guilt over the past and into a new light.

 

Sylamise (Sisi) Pierre 

I used to go to church with my Mom when I was kid, and when I was 11, my Mom died, and I kept going to church with my aunt,  and a few years later, my relationship with God was not too serious. And I remember that  I said a prayer to God, I asked him to give me the desire to serve him. Then I asked my church to baptize me and the church committee said I was not qualified. And after that little by little I left the church.  And then years passed I had no relationship with God. And the last six months, I was very depressed, I felt an emptiness in my heart, I had insomnia, I cried almost every day because my life had no meaning, and everything I did, did not go as planned. And one day I was in my room, thinking about my life and everything, and just like that I felt like I needed God. Then  that day, in my room, I prayed the same prayer when I was a teenager, and I gave Him my life. And since I gave Him my life, my depression is gone, He set me free from my past, and  my only desire is to serve God and to look like Jesus. Sometimes I fall, but He always makes a way to take me back to where I belong.

9:30 am Sanctuary

Carter Scovell

My name is Carter, and I know that Jesus died for my sins. I want him to come into my life; then the world will know that I am a follower of Jesus.   I want to be baptized today because I want Jesus in my life.

11:00 am Sanctuary

Eli Ankerbrand

I have grown up in a Christian household for my entire life, and I decided to accept Jesus as my Savior at the age of 5. I have seen Jesus working in my life through blessing me and my family. I have been connected at King Street through student ministries and Wednesday nights. Rhodes Grove and Cross ministries have also been important to my spiritual growth.

I want to be baptized today because I believe God has called me to baptism as a step of public obedience and faith.

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