Pastor Seth Hood said he could hear the enemy whispering in his ear Sept. 29 after he threw out a challenge.

That day, his church — First Baptist Colbert Heights — had celebrated 12 baptisms but prepared 15 towels.

“We’ve got three dry towels up here,” he said.

He said maybe there’s no one else here who’s ready to commit their lives to Jesus and be baptized, but all he knew was that he didn’t want those three towels to stay dry.

“If you need to embrace the gospel today and you want to be baptized today … I’ll be right here, and while we’re singing, just make your way to me,” Hood said.

He prayed silently for God to bring just one more. And by the end of the service, they had baptized 26.

“It has not stopped; since that day we’ve baptized 65,” he said.

Hood shared his testimony during the first DifferenceMakers theme interpretation during the Alabama Baptist State Convention annual meeting Nov. 12 at Eastern Shore Baptist Church in Daphne.

The topic for that segment — DifferenceMakers Through Evangelism — focused on how God works through Alabama Baptists as they make the gospel known.

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This article was originally published at TheAlabamaBaptist.org.