Baptism is a symbol of the new life believers have in Christ. This is Cam Ellison’s public profession of faith in Jesus from her baptism on Sunday, June 22, 2025.
Last week I attended church camp with our youth group in Gloriana, NM. While I was there, I noticed the great joy of the students there that are followers of Christ. I realized that the joy that was so noticeable to me comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ, and I found out that I can have what they have through my own relationship with Jesus. While we were at camp we studied the book of 1 John 4. Verses 9 and 10 stuck out to me. The say, “This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” Reading this verse, I realized that I needed to be saved. When I thought about how I would sin and just sit in my sin, it made me feel sad. I would sin, but I would never repent. I realized I needed Christ to save me from my sin and to walk through life with me so that his spirit lives in me and helps me not to sin, and even when I do sin, his spirit will guide me to repent of my sin. Collin asked us a few questions at the end of our church group time one night. He asked us to raise our hand if we felt like we wanted a relationship with Jesus, and I knew I did. 1 John 3:1-3 says, See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.” I really like that last verse because it says that if we put our hope in Jesus, we will be made pure like he is pure, and there is no better news to me than that.