Baby Dedications
Why baby dedications?
"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psalm 139:13-16
God is the creator of each of us, He is the author of our lives, and there is not one detail of our being that is hidden from Him. God knows His plan for each of us and part of that plan is that children are entrusted to their parents, as well as the family is entrusted to the greater church family.
We want to encourage parents to take every opportunity to instill in their children the values and teachings that will lead them towards a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, to pray for them regularly, to entrust them to God’s care, and to offer them to God for His service and ministry.
"Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it."
-Proverbs 22:6
We also recognize that the church family is called to commit our time, resources and prayer to help parents to raise their children in such a way that leads them towards a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and nurtures a desire to serve God.
"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." -Mark 10:14