More than five hundred people walked into the North Sea at Bridlington and came up confessing Jesus. Organizer Merlin Kraft of BibleLadUK reports 550 public baptisms on that beach — after about 170 at Bigbury-on-Sea a month earlier. Charisma, publishing with CBN News, calls it among Britain’s largest recent mass baptisms.
Cold water. Warm Spirit.
I am a charismatic believer. Freezing water does not intimidate the Helper. Jesus said disciples get baptized (Matthew 28:19), and the early church answered the same way Peter did: repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ (Acts 2:38). Kraft’s own words after the day — “God turned up” — are the right category. Not a branding campaign. A harvest.
Britain has heard a lot of decline talk. Then people travel across the country to get wet for Jesus and cheer strangers out of the waves. “There’s a real harvest out there,” Kraft said, and he plans to keep going around the country. That matches what I watch for: open Bibles, honest questions, churches that suddenly feel crowded with seekers.
What I am praying
Pray for the newly baptized — that the joy on the beach becomes a life with a local church. Pray for Merlin’s team as they keep saying yes. The Spirit still pours out on all flesh (Acts 2:17). England is not too cold for that promise.
Cold saltwater baptisms are a vivid picture, but the quieter miracle is people traveling across Britain because they want to obey Jesus in public. Keep an eye on the local churches absorbing those new believers — stadium energy fades; weekly fellowship is where the Spirit keeps teaching.
Have a blessed day!