Ideas

Around 60 families a year bring their children for christening at Holy Trinity, Orton Longueville and St Mary’s Orton Waterville in Peterborough but up until recently relatively few returned to the church

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A new website Parenting for Faith, helps parents, carers, extended families and their churches to develop ‘a lasting and vibrant two-way relationship with God’.

To help the congregation keep praying for the children baptised at Seal, we made a prayer board which has clear plastic pockets on it

Occasionally, I have used some words that are in the Methodist baptism service, at the part which addresses the child

Originating in Hispanic countries to celebrate the nativity story, Posada is a period of time during Advent when figures from the nativity story travel around different households in the community and stay there for one night.

This is a brief outline for a baptism sermon.  You will need a rucksack and some visual aids; a map, a compass and/or satnav device, a snack. If you want to try the footprints suggestion below, you’ll need one paper cut-out foot shape for everyone in church.

This is the service sheet I’ve put together and used for the last two years or so

I give to each member of the congregation a cut-out footprint, and as part of the prayers, invite them to write on it a prayer, or word for the child/baby being baptised.

In February 2015 we had the very first baptism in the new church plant, the Church in the Park, in the Parish of Christ the King, North Gosforth