Fire Hose Baptism (18 images)

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  • SUMMARY: The United House of Prayer celebrates baptism by fire-hose in several cities every year. At each baptism, bands play and people pray, as hundreds of participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside churches. This year, the 84th annual mass water baptisms that celebrate the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week took place in Washington DC, Newport News VA, and Charlotte NC...THIS IMAGE: Band members begin to gather before the ceremony.

  • Participants pray during the ceremony, some speaking in tongues as the emotional intensity rises...SUMMARY: The United House of Prayer celebrates baptism by fire-hose in several cities every year. At each baptism, bands play and people pray, as hundreds of participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside churches. This year, the 84th annual mass water baptisms that celebrate the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week took place in Washington DC, Newport News VA, and Charlotte NC.

  • WASHINGTON DC - AUGUST 29: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the United House of Prayer in Shaw in Washington, D.C. on August 29, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People as they participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • Participants sing praise over the crowd gathering for the ceremony...SUMMARY: The United House of Prayer celebrates baptism by fire-hose in several cities every year. At each baptism, bands play and people pray, as hundreds of participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside churches. This year, the 84th annual mass water baptisms that celebrate the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week took place in Washington DC, Newport News VA, and Charlotte NC.

  • Holding Hands in prayer before the mass baptism...NEWPORT NEWS VA- SEPTEMBER 5: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the 84th Annual Holy Convocation In the State of Virginia at The United House of Prayer For All People, Newport News, VA on September 5, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People participate and are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • NEWPORT NEWS VA- SEPTEMBER 5: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the 84th Annual Holy Convocation In the State of Virginia at The United House of Prayer For All People, Newport News, VA on September 5, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People participate and are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • WASHINGTON DC - AUGUST 29: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the United House of Prayer in Shaw in Washington, D.C. on August 29, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People as they participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • NEWPORT NEWS VA- SEPTEMBER 5: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the 84th Annual Holy Convocation In the State of Virginia at The United House of Prayer For All People, Newport News, VA on September 5, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People participate and are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • WASHINGTON DC - AUGUST 29: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the United House of Prayer in Shaw in Washington, D.C. on August 29, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People as they participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • NEWPORT NEWS VA- SEPTEMBER 5: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the 84th Annual Holy Convocation In the State of Virginia at The United House of Prayer For All People, Newport News, VA on September 5, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People participate and are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • The crowd is worked into a frenzy - crying, praying, singing and yelling along with preachers proclaiming and sermonizing - as the hoses are prepared.

  • Bands play as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People participate, sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church.

  • WASHINGTON DC - AUGUST 29: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the United House of Prayer in Shaw in Washington, D.C. on August 29, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People as they participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • NEWPORT NEWS VA- SEPTEMBER 5: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the 84th Annual Holy Convocation In the State of Virginia at The United House of Prayer For All People, Newport News, VA on September 5, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People participate and are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • WASHINGTON DC - AUGUST 29: Participants in baptism by fire hose at the United House of Prayer in Shaw in Washington, D.C. on August 29, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People as they participants are sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week (Photo by Logan Mock-Bunting).

  • Participants are sprayed down by men wielding fire-hoses on the street outside of churches.

  • Participants in baptism by fire hose at the 84th Annual Holy Convocation at The United House of Prayer For All People, Newport News, VA on September 5, 2010. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of other members of the United House of Prayer for All People were sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church.

  • After his baptism by fire-hose, a man clenches his fists and looks heavenward. Bands played and people prayed, as hundreds of participants were sprayed with a mist of water from a fire hose during a spiritual water baptism outside the church. The 84th annual mass water baptism that celebrates the end of the church's annual 'holy convocation' week.

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