K-LOVE Closer Look: Nearly 1,000 People Baptized In Ocean, Tampa Bay

Published: May 3, 2024, 2:17 a.m.

\u201cGod is still God,\u201d declares Pastor Daryl Black of Grace Family Church in Tampa, Florida. Two weeks after 30-thousand people flooded their Easter service at Buc\u2019s stadium, they counted at least 947 men, women and children who walked into the ocean at Fort De Soto Beach to be baptized. "I baptized so many people that my back was hurtin' when I was done," he laughs. Passersby also responded to the message of salvation in Jesus. \u201cThis is crazy,\u201d he says, people in the water, \u201cthey were floating by, going \u2018what\u2019s happening here? Can we get baptized too?\u2019\u201d Monika Kelly reports. [Educational Media Foundation - All Rights Reserved]