Baptisms Close Big Splash Wave Pool

For one day, Big Splash rented out their park to Life Church, a large Tulsa congregation, but not everyone who walked through the gates Sunday knew what would be in store because of that rental agreement.

Judie Wilson says she needed a trip to Big Splash water park Sunday afternoon.

“It’s been really hot, like I can barely go outside without breaking a sweat,” 20 year-old Judie told FOX23.

One of her family’s favorite spots, the wave pool. That’s where they were Sunday around 3-30

“The lifeguards, they started blowing the whistles, telling everyone to clear out, and I thought someone had drowned. I wasn’t really sure what was going on,” She said.

Turns out nobody drowned, but they did go under.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before. They said they were baptizing people,” Judie said.

She’s talking about pastors at Life Church in Tulsa.

“We actually rented the park out. It was our day to do what we wanted,” Pastor Derrick Henslee told FOX23 Monday.

Sunday’s event called Life Stock 2011, culminated with 150 people being baptized in the wave pool. This while other guests not affiliated with the church looked on at the ceremony.

“To do it at one time, with all three campuses, and thousands of people watching, it really is the most efficient place at Big Splash to do it,” Pastor Henslee said.

Judie says the whole situation has her confused.

“I thought it was great that everyone was dedicating their life to Christ. I just didn’t know if that was the right place or not to do that at,” Judie told FOX23.

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Are Men Better Drivers Than Women?

Researchers who studied thousands of traffic accidents over a 20-year period came up with a finding that even they found surprising: Female drivers are far more likely to run into a car driven by another woman than a man.

Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute, who is lead author of the study published in the Traffic Injury Prevention journal, said in a telephone interview that he and his colleague, Brandon Schoettle, wanted to determine if there is a gender interaction component in traffic accidents. They did indeed find it, he said, but they didn’t expect the difference between men and women drivers to be nearly as great as the research indicates.

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Tea party group offers summer camp

TAMPA — Here’s another option now that the kids are out of school: a weeklong seminar about our nation’s founding principles, courtesy of the Tampa 912 Project.

The organization, which falls under the tea party umbrella, hopes to introduce kids ages 8 to 12 to principles that include “America is good,” “I believe in God,” and “I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.”

Organized by conservative writer Jeff Lukens and staffed by volunteers from the 912 Project, Tampa Liberty School will meet every morning July 11-15 in borrowed space at the Paideia Christian school in Temple Terrace.

“We want to impart to our children what our nation is about, and what they may or may not be told,” Lukens said.

He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, “I do know they have a lot of political correctness. We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing.”

Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages.

One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the “banker” will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.

“Some of the kids will fall for it,” Lukens said. “Others kids will wise up.”

Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other’s bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.

“What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom,” Lukens said.

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