Parent-Child and Baby Dedication Resources
Written by Craig Webb, editor
These four free resources are compliments of Let's Worship Magazine. For more children's articles and ministry helps visit LifeWay Kids.
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A New Idea for
a Baby Dedication
Pastor Frank Lewis descibes the
creative way he did a baby
dedication service and shares the
letter he presents to parents to give to their child on their 12th birthday
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A Model Baby Dedication
Bruce Gust shares a simple one-
page model baby dedication using a
question and response format.
It features two questions addressed parents and two questions
addressed to the congregation.
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A Prayer of Dedication
by Matt Tullos
This baby dedication prayer can
be read by a leader or be done
as a responsive reading.
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A Service for Baby Dedication
by Robert Wagoner
This is an traditional order of
worship as well as a model
"Dedication of Parents and
Children to the Lord"
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To download these PDF documents "right-click" the image or the link 
below the image and choose "Save Target As ..." then save to a familiar place on your hard drive. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to open and print these PDF (Portable Document Format) files.
The following resources are available from our online catalog:
The new Holman CSB Minister's Bible features easy-to-read large all black typeface, extra wide margins, 74-page concordance, and a full-featured ministerial helps section. This section is 54 pages of carefully chosen material to assist ministers with premarital counseling, weddings, funerals, baptisms, visitation, counseling, invitations, ministry to children, and communicating with youth.
The "Minister's Helps" section includes a great article by W.A. Criswell called "The Pastor’s Concern for Children" (see pages 1716-19) and "How to Lead an Effective Parent-Child Dedication Service" (see pp. 1722-23). You may order it online ...
Free Customizable Downloads:
These four free documents are RTF (Rich Text File) versions of the same documents as above and should open with most Word Processors (Microsoft WordTM, WordPerfectTM, WordPadTM etc.) so you can customize them for your use. The best way to download them is to "right-click" the link, then choose "Save Target As ..." then save them to a familiar place on your hard drive.
If you have trouble with downloading any of these files, please e-mail Craig Webb, editor.
Why don't we "christen" or "baptize" babies?
Historically, Baptists do not observe "christening" or "baptism" of infants. Robert Wagoner explains in an article in Let's Worship Magazine that it is because "baptism took place in the New Testament only for those who had consciously chosen to follow Christ and had been converted."
Why do we do parent-child or baby dedications?
Wagoner also says in the same article that "there is a need today, however, for a time of dedication of newborn babies and their parents to the Lord. This dedication would provide a constant reminder to the congregation of our commitment to children. It would also be a reminder to all parents of their biblical responsibility to raise their children in the admonition of the Lord. The timing of this rite could occur either at the birth of the child or on a specific calendar date such as given for sanctity of life Sunday." (Let's Worship Magazine, Summer, 1999)
For more children's articles and ministry helps visit LifeWay Kids.
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