A Different Approach

  By Diana Chandler, Regional Reporter

NEW ORLEANS – Emily McIlwain won’t share many details of her baptism.

    Instead, the eight-year-old smiles and shyly seeks cover behind her mother as she relates how Calvary Baptist Senior Pastor Michael Carney placed her in the water two years ago.

  What made Emily’s experience so different from other Southern Baptist baptisms is that her parents Tammy and Allen McIlwain were in the pool with Emily. In fact, they baptized her themselves.