The baptisms — in a small lake and illuminated by automobile headlights — took place about a half-mile from the Neville Arena site for “Unite Auburn,” an event connected to a city-wide revival taking place in Auburn, an eastern Alabama city of 75,000.
Video posted to social media shows the students cheering in approval whenever one of the students emerged from the immersion. “We had stories of kids who were isolated in their closet and just feeling like they can’t cope, they can’t go on, they don’t want to live another day,” Mrs. Prewett said in a telephone interview. “And some who are bound by addictions that they think can’t seem to get free from and it’s just keeping them full of shame and isolation.”
However one student indicated an interest in getting baptized right away, and Mrs. Prewett said Ms. Allen went back on stage and made an appeal asking if anyone else wanted to be baptized. Nearly half of the 5,000 students in the arena then made their way to the water nearby. Jeremy Napier, a pastor who is chaplain for the Auburn basketball team, said “entire pledge units of fraternities [have] show up” at local churches to worship.
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