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‘A beautiful thing’: 4,500 people baptized at California beach days after SoCal Harvest

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor

Over 4,500 people were baptized on a Southern California beach during an outreach event overseen by Pastor Greg Laurie and Harvest Christian Fellowship in what the evangelist believes could be one of the largest mass baptisms ever. 

Known as the Jesus Revolution Pirate’s Cove Beach Baptism, the event took place at Pirate’s Cove Beach Saturday and drew an estimated 20,000 attendees. Of the thousands baptized, one of them was Laurie’s granddaughter, Stella.

In comments emailed to The Christian Post, Laurie attributed the large number of baptisms to “a number of things,” among them the success of the recently released film “Jesus Revolution.”

“I would say the Jesus Revolution movie really impacted people and so many have come to Christ after seeing it,” Laurie said. “They were so moved by the baptism scenes in the film and wanted to take the same step in life. It was life imitating art, and that art was based on my real life story and the story of many others as well.”

Laurie also attributed the turnout to the SoCal Harvest at the Honda Center the weekend before, where over 3,000 people made a profession of faith to follow Christ.

“We invited them all to this baptism,” Laurie said. 

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