Elam Ministries reports that 246 people were baptised as Christians at a service on April 17.
Those baptised included 228 Iranians, 17 Afghans and one person from Pakistan. The service took place in a swimming pool at a secret location in a country bordering Iran to avoid interference from the Iranian authorities.
Elam, whose mission is to strengthen and expand the church in the Iran region, says that this was an historic event in that it is probably the largest number of Iranians baptised on one day since the fourth century. It was certainly historic in that never before had so many Iranians from a Muslim background made public profession of their conversion to Christ through the waters of baptism.
