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Rose Sibayan / The Home News-Tribune
MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ,
SEPTEMBER 12, 2004 -- Pentecostals gather at Carrol Lake for a baptismal
ceremony organized by
the Zion Temple First Pentecostal Church of America Incorporated together
with Mt. Zion Ministry
of New Brunswick. Here, Tootie Young gets emotional after being baptized.
She is surrounded by,
from left, Deacon Carlton Bullock, Elder Richard Dowdle,
Evangelist Samuel Foy,
and Pastor Eric McMillan.

Bishop Geanette Leach
of First Pentecostal Church leads the ceremony.

Ministers pray over a
candidate.

Pentecostals are
reflected on the water of Carrol Lake
where they gathered for
a baptismal ceremony.

Linda Pendleton is led
into the water by Deacon Carlton
Bullock, left, and
Evangelist Samuel Foy.