Morning Star Fellowship - part 7

In the last installment I introduced Fred and Alice Kealy's two younger sons Lindsey and Nathan.  I have more to share about these two little guys.  :)

More Lindsey and Nathan
As Lindsey and Nathan grew older they started to find mischief to get into - even at church.  Actually it was Lindsey who found the mischief and lead his younger brother into it.  There was one incident in particular that would always be remembered by the staff and congregation at Morning Star Fellowship.

This incident happened the summer when Lindsey was about 6-years-old, and Nathan was about 4-years-old.  It was a hot Sunday night at church.  (By this time Morning Star Fellowship had its own building.)  It was warm inside the building even with all of the fans going.  Some people were baptized at the beginning of the service.  Then the children were all dismissed to their classes.  Some of the classes were combined together - including the classes that Lindsey and Nathan were in.  This one room had several children with about 3 teachers.  During a distraction Lindsey and Nathan snuck out of the room.

The two little boys made their way down a back hallway to the baptismal tank.  The tank was its own little room behind the choir loft at the front of the sanctuary.  It had a partly glass wall on the sanctuary side.  Now the door to the room had been closed but not locked yet.  The water had also not been drained out yet.

Meanwhile Ed Hart was leading the adult service out in the sanctuary.  Some of the pastors were sitting there in the front pews.  They included Fred Kealy and Shawn Hart.  Alice Kealy was there as well sitting with her husband.  While Ed preached there suddenly came gasps and stifled chuckles from the congregation.  He noticed everyone staring wide-eyed at something behind him.  He turned and looked to see two little heads bobbing in the water of the baptismal tank.  Ed's face broke into a smile.

Immediately Fred, Alice and some men from the congregation rushed out of the sanctuary.  They all hurried to the baptismal tank and pulled Lindsey and Nathan out of the water.

"But, we just wanted to swim!"  Lindsey protested.

Fred scolded, "This is church!"

Alice added, "You boys could have drowned!"

After this incident the door to the baptismal tank was always kept locked.  The only exception was when people were being baptized.

Secretly Shawn thought that the incident was pretty funny.  From time to time he would mention it to the boys.  Even after Lindsey and Nathan were grown, Shawn would still remind them of the Sunday night that they went swimming in the baptismal tank.