Ideas

Repeated invitation helps families become more involved with their local church.

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.

It is offered from the Diocese of Leeds, designed for churches to give to families either around baptism or through toddler groups

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

There’s lots of creative ways to involve the congregation in praying for a child being baptized

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.

This Praying Together card compliments the second part of the booklet

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.

I invite parents to write a brief paragraph about their child based their personality

We have reasonably recently started giving Baptism packs to the families of the children we baptise