Next Steps: Christian Baptism — New Life Church Letchworth

Baptisms

Baptism is a unique opportunity to tell others about your faith in Jesus. Through baptisms, we’ve helped lots of people share their stories of how following Jesus made their life better and made them better at life. We’d love to help you experience baptism for yourself and allow God to use your faith story to impact other people.

A woman, a girl, and a man are standing in a small outdoor baptism pool, smiling and smiling as water is poured over the girl's head. Several people are watching in the background, some smiling, sitting, or standing, with trees and a building behind them.

Step 1

Sign up - fill out the form on this page to tell us your story and to choose a date.

Step 2

Get prepared - we will guide you each step of the way as you prepare to be baptised and share your story.

Step 3

Invite - Get as many of your friends and family along to celebrate with you.

Step 4

Be baptised - we will all celebrate together as you take this next step in your faith

Jesus was baptised. Since then, millions of his followers have followed his example. Baptism is a way for you to do the same and participate in a common experience with Jesus followers around the world.
Baptism is a way to go public with your faith to show others that you have started a personal relationship with Jesus.
Baptism is not necessary for salvation. It symbolises the new life you began when you started following Jesus. It symbolises your old life dying (going under the water) and your new life (coming out of the water).
We believe that everyone who has made a decision to follow Jesus has a story worth sharing – but we understand that not everybody wants to speak on a stage or on video. Through your baptisms we want to equip and enable you to share your faith story that’s why there’s a number of options:
- Live on stage during a service at one of our locations.
- Pre recorded video.
- Written down and shared through our social media platforms alongside a photo of you.
- Written down for you to share personally with those you invite.
Once you submit your form one of our team will be in touch to discuss these options with you.
Some churches choose to christen or baptise infants. While we recognise the right of other churches to practice infant baptism, we understand Scripture to teach that only people who have made the decision to follow Jesus should be baptised. Baptism does not make you a Christian. It shows that you already are one.
We will however baptise children if they have made a personal decision themselves to follow Jesus and their parents agree that they have made that decision to follow Jesus.