Hundreds of churches across California teamed up on Pentecost Sunday weekend to baptize some 12,000 people as part of a “Baptize California” campaign that was billed as one of the largest synchronized water baptism events in history. The Saturday-Sunday event saw more than 6,000 people baptized at the campaign’s headquarters in Huntington Beach, Calif., and an additional 6,000 baptized at participating churches across the state, according to preliminary numbers cited in Faithwire.