Snake River Baptism

There’s nothing like a good old river water baptism. Our fellowship glories in a Snake River baptism service, there’s nothing quite like a frigid river dunk to give you some old-time religion.

Our baptism choice is the Snake River. The Snake River is a clear, slow-moving, glacier-frigid tributary that flows around the edges of west Lewiston Idaho. The Snake River begins at its source in the Rocky Mountains of Yellowstone National Park, through Grand Teton National Park, through Alpine Canyon in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, past Jackson Hole Wyoming and into Idaho.

There is nothing like a good old river water baptism at the Snake River: the terror of wading waist deep into murky rapids; the metabolic shock of being fully plunged into ice cold waters; the exhilaration of being lifted out of your immersion as the congregation cheers from the river’s edge. Symbolic of dying to self as we plunge into the fearful deep, rising alive in Christ as we rise from the waters. This is the joy of a good baptism.

London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689 Chapter 29 – Baptism

1. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ. To those baptized it is a sign of their fellowship with him in his death and resurrection, of their being grafted into him, of remission of sins, and of submitting themselves to God through Jesus Christ to live and walk in newness of life.

Romans 6:3–5; Colossians 2:12; Galatians 3:27; Mark 1:4; Acts 22:16; Romans 6:4

2. Those who personally profess repentance toward God and faith in and obedience to our Lord Jesus Christ are the only proper subjects of this ordinance.

Mark 16:16; Acts 8:36-37; Acts 2:41; Acts 8:12; Acts 18:8

3. The outward element to be used in this ordinance is water, in which the individual is to be baptized in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 28:19-20; Acts 8:38

4. Immersion, or dipping of the person in water, is necessary for this ordinance to be administered properly.

Matthew 3:16; John 3:23