Bible Fellowship pastor Mark Barninger baptizing in the
Susquehanna River, October 2022. Photo courtesy of Jill Davidson
Grace Bible Fellowship Church, 1811 Old Bethlehem Pike North,
Quakertown, Pa.
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM, March 16, 2025
Historian Jill Davidson will offer an overview of baptism within the Bible Fellowship Church, followed by a baptismal demonstration with commentary by pastor Tim Schmoyer of Whitehall Bible Fellowship Church. Providing a counterexample of baptism from the Mennonite church with commentary will be pastor Dave Grieser of Salford Mennonite Church. Both demonstrations will occur without water. Jill Davidson will then provide a few closing comments. Together these talks and demonstrations will illustrate the importance of baptism in Anabaptism, as well as, how groups within that tradition differ in their practice of the ordinance. It will be an opportunity to learn the purpose of baptism within the Anabaptist tradition and some of the logistics of performing a baptism.