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Children’s Objectives
1. Demonstrate basic prayer manners
2. Repeat simple prayers
3. Listen to Bible stories
4. Recognize Bible pictures
5. Recognize Bible as God’s story book
Parents’ Guidelines
1. Prepare household for Baptism, including sponsors and extended family
· Give prayerful attention to selecting “Christian Sponsors” for your child’s Baptism
“The sponsors of children are often called “godparents.” They may fulfill a variety of social roles in certain cultures. These roles may be regarded as an elaboration of the central baptismal role they have undertaken. Such sponsors take on a lifelong task to recall the gifts of Baptism in the life of their godchild.”
(Means of Grace, p.26)
· Meet with your Pastor for Baptismal Counseling
· Schedule your child’s Baptism as a significant “family celebration,” including grandparents and extended family
2. Establish prayer patterns to include child: morning, means, bedtime
· Teach the prayer posture of head bowed, hands folded, (kneeling), quiet attention
· Select certain prayers and repeat them at specific times each day.
· A suggest website for daily prayers is: www.bedtime.com
· For example:
Mealtime:
*“Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest, and to us this food be blest.”
*”For every cup and plateful, God make us truly grateful”
*”A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Thank you God for feeding me. Amen”
Bedtime:
*”Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
Your love be with me through the night
And wake me with the morning light.”
3. Read Bible stories as a family
4. Initiate regular opportunities for interaction with parish pastor
5. Invite your pastor to visit your home every six months
6. Bring your child forward to participate in Children’s sermon (carry child in arms at infancy)
7. Encourage child to Worship book/folder and pint to words being spoken or sung
8. Instruct your child to greet your pastor following Worship and during other congregational gatherings
9. Instruct your child to pass the peace
10. Bring child to Worship, as attention span allows
11. Make available children’s Bible Story books, with pictures and/or music, to include both Old and New Testaments
For example:
Adam and Eve; Noah’s Ark; David & Goliath;
Daniel & Lion’s Den; Moses;
Key events in the Life of Jesus: Birth, Miracles, Crucifixion,
Death, Resurrection and Ascension
