Baby Dedication

Today was Nathan's baby dedication at our church! Instead of baptising babies, our church dedicates children. This is a promise that we, our family, and our church family make to raise Nathan knowing our Lord Jesus, to learn from His Word. Basically, it's the same "words" and "service" as familiar Catholic and Luthern baby baptisms. The parents, family, and church are promising the same thing. We just do it minus the water. The full-submursion baptism comes later in the child's life once he/she around the age of 12 or 13. By this time, the child has grown up in the church family and can make a very important decision on their own; to accept Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, into their heart and to dedicate their life to Him. At this time, the child goes through Youth Discipleship, which includes attending discipleship class with Pastor Jim, and choosing a mentor from the church congregation. This is also how I was baptised, and my mentor and I have been friends for 17 years!

With baby dedications in our church, some families choose to identify Godparents; following familiar Catholic practices. Tom and I chose not to do the Godparent thing. I don't have Godparents, although I am one and Tom is one, it was too difficult to pick and we didn't feel it necessary to do with Nathan because we know all of our family and friends will love Nathan and support him in Christian faith.

Here are pictures from our big day!

Denise, Pastor Jim's wife, was so excited to hold Nathan!

The spoon given by the church to Nathan. Engraved with 'Whiting Community Baptist Church'

My Dad, 1st time Grandpa, with Nathan and me :)

Nathan's cute outfit!

Here you can see the Uppercase Living expression "MIRACLES" on Nathan's wall!

I hope I have shared something with you and maybe you learned something new about dedicating babies! :) We are so excited to be on this journey with Nathan and can't wait to watch him grow, develop, and become a beautiful human being making Mommy and Daddy proud.

Love,
Roxanne :)

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