Baptism of Jesus mind and comes to accept someone else's plan. Plus, the story came from the community that included the family of Jesus, who would have guaranteed the authenticity of the narrative. The Gospel of John () refers to Enon near Salim as one place where John the Baptist baptized people, "because there was much water there". Separately, states that John the Baptist was baptizing in "Bethany beyond the Jordan". This is not the village Bethany just east of Jerusalem, but is generally considered to be the town Bethany, also called Bethabara in Perea on the Eastern bank of the Jordan near
Baptist Community of the Congo River Baptist Community of the Congo River The Baptist Community of the Congo River () is a Baptist Christian denomination in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is affiliated with the Church of Christ in the Congo and the Baptist World Alliance. The headquarters is in Kinshasa. The Baptist Community of the Congo River has its origins in a Baptist mission established along the Congo River, in 1880, by Thomas J. Comber and George Grenfell of the Baptist Missionary Society. In 1960, the Lower River Baptist Church, the Upper Congo Baptist Church and the Middle River Baptist Church joined forces to