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She previously baptized Mina’s uncle Sabe, grandfather Lonnie and great-grandmother Ruthie. Mina’s grandmother Teresa, great grandfather Orville and great grandmother Johann have also been previously baptized as United Methodists. Mina wore the same white dress that her great-great-great grandmother wore in her own baptism in 1888.

Other infant baptisms are special for different reasons. Rev. George Whitney, retired Missouri Conference elder, performed a double-baptism in the Methodist Children’s Hospital at Omaha, Nebraska. The girls were his twin granddaughters, were born 26 weeks, and are now doing well.