Melissa Joan Hart Shares How Family's 'Tough Times' Inspired Son's Baptism and Dedication to Christ

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00:00They were all baptized as babies because I was raised Catholic and my husband was raised Baptist

00:04and we kind of raised them Presbyterian and so they were baptized as babies but in our church

00:13now we're back in a Baptist church now and Brady just felt very called he has a great youth pastor

00:18I mean he's got teachers at school that are constantly talking to him about faith friends

00:23that he talks to about faith and it started to really mean a lot to him in the last year you

00:28know it started to really resonate with him his Bible class is the one he gets 100 on every year

00:32like you know it's the one he really focuses he understands it and it it fills him and uh yeah

00:38kind of like a month before I think it was kind of just in passing actually it was my younger one

00:43Tucker who said Brady wants to get baptized I was like what so um you know Brady talked about it a

00:48little bit and then finally he was like hey would uh would next weekend be a good weekend for me to

00:52be baptized I was like yeah okay let's do that so yeah it was all him my husband and I sat in the

00:59front we always sit in the back of the church we're sitting in the front of the church right in the

01:02aisle and I mean just bawling you know and and he's like I looked over at you guys you're just like a

01:07mess sorry as a family we really we really lean into the faith together we all we pray over every meal

01:14we pray before we travel we pray um oh my gosh night morning um when we know that someone's having

01:22struggles we just went through um some some tough times this year with uh losing loved ones and and um

01:30a friend of ours getting cancer and things so it's it's been a little bit of a rough year and so we've

01:34really leaned into prayer as a family individually um we quote scripture a lot you know they see their

01:40father reading the bible every morning at 5 30 in the morning if they get in my car the bible's

01:44playing so they they they witness a lot of that faith and I think through that faith they've just

01:48felt stronger when I discovered world vision it was incredible because it was like I had always kind

01:54of been seeking a charity I could really figure out like other parts of the world how do other people

02:01live that aren't American that aren't you know they don't have a grocery store down the street

02:05how do they survive what happens and with partnering with world vision I had the

02:10um I was so blessed that they would take me over there and let me see how these programs work and

02:16they're so complex and they're so rich and they're so deep and they get they get to the core of the

02:20problem and they help people learn how to they like to say that it's not a handout it's a hand up

02:25and it really they go into an area for like 15 years and they help that area they go find children

02:32they'll go to visit schools or families or villages and find children that are really malnourished

02:37or sick and they'll try to figure out you know what's going on over here how can we help and you

02:42can find what it is that you think kids and families need right now and you can make that donation and

02:48it'll go to help I mean it really it really is a gift that keeps on giving