Building bridges with pancakes
Repeated invitation helps families become more involved with their local church.
Ideas
St Albans Blog: the value of christenings
This blog published via the Children's Ministry team in the Diocese of St Albans is packed with ideas from one particular christening, along with encouragement for why christenings are so important for the wider mission of the church.
Prayer ideas with babies
It is offered from the Diocese of Leeds, designed for churches to give to families either around baptism or through toddler groups
Luggage label prayers
Here's a really simple idea from the Revd Canon Sandra Millar, Head of Projects & Developments, about how families can be reminded of their child's baptism service and all those who prayed for them
Prayer petals in the font
There's lots of creative ways to involve the congregation in praying for a child being baptized
Baby socks and Shoes
I originally developed this idea for a baptism that took place at Epiphany. I was thinking about gifts and journeys and came up with the idea of giving everyone a small present. That present was one baby sock.
Praying Together card for parent and baby
This Praying Together card compliments the second part of the booklet
Encourage parents and godparents to choose the Bible verse for baptism
Back in 2015 I attended a conference in Durham Diocese to discuss baptism practices and theology with colleagues from the Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
Who are the candidates?
I invite parents to write a brief paragraph about their child based their personality
Baptism Bears
We have reasonably recently started giving Baptism packs to the families of the children we baptise
