Pastor gets third baptism

A Hanover-based pastor was recently baptised for a third time. The church leader, Kirk McIntyre, was among 60 persons who experienced a religious purification at a mass baptismal exercise in Kingston last month.

Dorothy Green, a pastor based in New York, also made the decision to be re-baptised despite being a preacher. She was among 101 persons baptised in Mount Vernon, United States of America (USA), on August 28.

The baptisms were conducted by Bishop Leslie Morgan, a Jamaica-born man who lives in the USA.

McIntyre, one of the new born-again pastors, was first baptised in 1997 at the age of 17. He re-baptised in 2008 because he was a backslider. Now the leader of the Faith Christian Fellowship in Haughton Grove, Hanover, McIntyre said that he has been labouring in the vineyard, seeking souls for the Kingdom of God.

But despite being a church leader, McIntyre was convinced that he needed another baptism -- this time to allow himself to get more revelations and spiritual power from God.

"Baptism is to declare to the world that you denounce Satan. Baptism is not salvation," said McIntyre, adding that he has become spiritually stronger since being rebaptised.

"I have been preaching the word of God for sometime now, but this is not an ordinary encounter. It is a divine encounter, as more anointing is opening up to me. I find [that] when I declare and minister over person's lives it is coming through, they are getting results," he said.

McIntyre said he decided to go to Morgan to be baptised after he got a vision a couple of years ago.

"It was a revelation I got from Christ and it just unfolded before me ... . I am seeing things on a deeper spiritual sense now. I am getting more revelations, and when I speak, the Lord allows me to speak to things happening. I am deeper into fasting and prayer, I am on the side of practicality of spirituality," McIntyre said.

The clergyman, who told THE STAR that his flock understands his decision, said that he will be merging his new ministry with Morgan's Search of Life Church of God.

"I see him as a prophet because whatsoever he speaks, it does come to pass. In our realm, God communicates to us in vision, and I got two revelations of him in regarding ... the spiritual divine movement which he is making," McIntyre said of Morgan.

Meanwhile, Green, who worships with Morgan in the USA, is convinced that he was sent by God to do His work. She recalled the moment that she made the decision to be rebaptised.

"When he was anointing the baptism on YouTube, the Holy Spirit showed me the water, and the water was like turning over in the sea...It was like it was mixing the blood in there. And the Lord said to me, 'This water is not normal, it is very powerful, and I want you to be baptised in it.' I thought about it for a while and I said, 'I was already baptised, why should I be baptised again?' But it came to me that I would be more powerful if I get baptised [by him]," she said.