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Auburn Coach Hugh Freeze Baptizes Freshman Safety Sylvester Smith During Mass Worship Event

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Auburn football coach Hugh Freeze baptized freshman safety Sylvester Smith on Tuesday night after a worship service at Neville Arena that attracted thousands of people.

The Unite Auburn event featured speakers and a live worship band. Following the event, the crowd moved to the lake at Auburn’s Ag Heritage Park, also known as the Red Barn, where more than 100 baptisms took place.

Video posted on X appears to show the baptism:

Auburn head basketball coach Bruce Pearl and head baseball coach Butch Thompson also attended the event, and the coaches, along with Freeze, promoted the event in the weeks leading up to Tuesday.

Auburn center Dylan Cardwell posted about the event, saying, “thank you God for revival”:

Freeze made headlines in August as he praised the Tuohy family that adopted Michael Oher, made famous in the movie The Blind Side, for helping when Oher was homeless. Freeze, who coached Oher at Ole Miss. “I love Michael Oher. He’s like part of our family. I love the Tuohys,” Freeze told the Auburn Observer, and said of the family’s recent legal troubles, “I think it’s sad, and I certainly don’t claim to understand all the ins and outs of adoption, conservatory, all of that. But I know what I witnessed, and I witnessed a family that totally took in a young man. And I think without that, there is no story.

WATCH – ‘God Is Moving’: Hundreds Baptized in Pond at Auburn University

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A huge group of people who showed up Tuesday night at Auburn University’s Neville Arena in Alabama left with changed hearts.

The crowd attended the Unite Auburn event to hear speakers and participate in a worship session. However, the moving night did not end there, 1819 News reported Wednesday.

Following the event, students made their way to Auburn’s Red Barn, where a wave of baptisms took place.

Video footage shows the crowd gathered at the pond while watching others stand in the waist deep water.

Moments into the clip, a man wearing a dark shirt baptizes another young man. The moment he emerges from the water, the crowd erupts in cheers and shouts of joy:

WOW! Auburn students baptizing each other Tuesday night after a UNITE Auburn event on campus. Coach Freeze helped…

Posted by Lynden Blake WBRC on Wednesday, September 13, 2023

“To God be the Glory!!!!!” one social media user replied to the video clip, while another said, “Beautiful and wonderful to behold.”

Auburn’s basketball head coach, football head coach, and baseball head coach promoted the event featuring Passion Music and speaker Jonathan Pokluda, who is also a pastor in Waco, Texas, according to the 1819 News article:

Pokluda’s message focused heavily on sexual abstinence and purity outside the confines of marriage. He also spoke at length about the dangers of sexual promiscuity and pornography use from a biblical perspective. Pokulda also remarked that he had never seen “such a clear and obvious movement of God” in his “entire life.”

He also told the young people a baton was about to be passed to them and “you’re going to have to carry it out of this place for God to do something in and through this place.”

WSFA reported approximately 200 people were baptized after the service that was free to attend.

Student Michael Floyd told the outlet he would never forget the incredible evening.

“It’s just a message of unity, saying when you’re a part of the body of Christ, you’re never alone, ” Floyd stated.

In a social media post Wednesday, Unite Auburn said, “We are still speechless and in awe of what God did last night. Hundreds of students were baptized at Red Barn.”

We are still speechless and in awe of what God did last night. Hundreds of students were baptized at Red Barn. Thousands…

Posted by Unite Auburn on Wednesday, September 13, 2023

“Thousands cheered as they were raised from death to life. God is moving on Auburn’s campus and it doesn’t stop here,” the post stated.