Outdoor Baptisms Still Popular Despite Water Pollution Risks
Sunday Gazette-Mail › October 03, 2005
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VAN LEAR, Ky. - In a scene from days of old, the Rev. Ted Dawson stood waist-deep in an eastern Kentucky creek waiting to dip two new converts beneath the surface in a traditional Appalachian baptismal service.
Forget indoor baptistries. For the faithful in many Appalachian churches, there's no place better than the great outdoors for this religious rite.See the full content of this document
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Outdoor Baptisms Still Popular Despite Water Pollution Risks
"Most of the people I baptize want to be baptized in the creek," said Dawson, pastor of the Old Log Church, home to an evangelical congregation near this historic coal town best known as the childh...
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