Following a campus worship service that was apparently attended by hundreds of people, over 200 students at an Alabama college were baptized in a single night this week.
Tuesday night’s baptisms were held in a lake at Auburn’s Red Barn venue, which is roughly 0.5 miles from Auburn University’s Neville Arena, the location of a hugely popular worship service known as “Unite Auburn.”
Christian novelist Jennie Allen and lead pastor of Harris Creek Baptist Church in Waco, Texas, Rev. Jonathan Pokluda, and Christian praise band Passion were among the speakers at the “Unite Auburn” event.
One person apparently wanted to get baptized after the event, but there was no tub available. Students started congregating at the lake in search of a solution.
Hugh Freeze, the head coach of the Auburn Tigers football team, was also present and reportedly “got in the water to help,” according to WSFA of Montgomery.
One video, which Auburn senior Michael Floyd captured, showed Freeze helping with a football player’s baptism.
It was a wonderful instance of Auburn being Auburn! About the event, Floyd told Fox News Digital, “Hundreds of people took their next step, and thousands gathered to unabashedly seek Jesus.”
Throughout the course of the two-hour event, hundreds of college students could be seen lining the lake’s shores and wading into the water to be baptized one by one.
“It was one of the most exquisite events I had ever been a part of, as there was an authentic happiness and tranquility in the atmosphere.” Senior Auburn University student Kenzie Gay, who saw the spiritual event firsthand, told Fox, “I would look back toward campus and constantly see mobs of flashlights from more students that were running to come and join the crowd.”
“Everyone was simply amazed by what God was accomplishing that evening,” Gay continued. Gay had previously served as Miss Auburn University.