<p>Funeral services were held Wednesday for a 3-year-old boy who drowned in his church's baptismal pool after Sunday morning services.</p><p>Church members searched for the Charles Douglas Sanders Jr. in classrooms and adjacent buildings before his mother found him in the baptismal pool, according to police. Water in the baptistery is about 3-feet deep.</p><p>"I started pushing on his stomach, trying to get water out," said Charles Sanders Sr. during his son's visitation service Tuesday. "Nobody would give up."</p><p>A former firefighter and a nurse performed CPR on Charles Jr. until the ambulance arrived a few minutes later, Sanders said. The boy was pronounced dead at Henry Medical Center.</p><p>Henry County Police have ruled the drowning and an accident.</p><p>The toddler disappeared when his father was talking with preacher David Decker in the sanctuary and his mother was in the rest room, said the boy's great aunt, Elaine Whitmire.</p><p>The Sanders' only child was running around with some other kids, Whitmire said.</p><p>There were no witnesses, and this was the first time any child had gone near the pool, she said.</p><p>Whitmire was returning from vacation Sunday with her husband, Charles, when she heard about the drowning. She said her husband, who is a deacon at the church, along with other church officials, will take precautions to prevent the same accident from happening again.</p><p>"There will be a lock put on the door, you can bet on that," Whitmire said.</p>
