Baptism in the Creek

By Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis

Baptism in the Creek describes the way in which people were inducted into the Baptist Church back in the day. They were submerged under water to "wash away their sins". The source of water was a creek that had been used by the ancestors of members of the Holly Springs Missionary Baptist Church.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rushmore Press LLC
• Release date: Dec 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781956696837

Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis

Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis grew up on a sharecropping farm in Alabama where black people were considered inferior to white people. She was subjected to sub-standard education and was denied attendance at the local library and Public University, not withstanding that she had the second highest IQ in the city among black and white students. Dr. Lewis spent 27 years struggling to obtain a doctoral degree while working full time and rearing three children. Dr. Lewis achieved the highest level of employment as Superintendent of Schools and retired at age seventy-four. Now at age eighty-five, she is focusing on writing books for children, whom she loves. Dr. Lewis has three children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

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ISBN 978-1-956696-82-0 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-956696-83-7 (digital)

Copyright © 2021 by Dr. Joice Christine Bailey Lewis

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Contents

Dedication 

Dear Reader 

Moral of the Story 

Vocabulary

Write Your Own Story 

Drawing Lesson for Non-Artists

Higher Order Thinking Questions

Baptism in the Creek

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to all children. It has been written to enhance children’s understanding of the history of the United States of America.

Knowing how people lived Back in the Day helps to understand much of the way we live and think today. Failure to understand the past will ensure that we will continue to make many of the same mistakes.

Unfortunately, American history is not always told correctly. It is often told so that