When I first wrote about Baby Dedication, I didn’t anticipate the interest it would generate. It seems like many parents and pastors are looking for solid information about conduction a baby dedication service.
This post brings together all the information I have found helpful concerning dedicating children to the Lord. I have linked sources where available. If you know of other resources – please leave a comment so I can keep this list up to date.
Definition of Baby Dedication Service
- I recommend this article on the baby dedication service from Bible.org
Responsibilities Involved in Baby Dedication Service
- Many Christian churches practice Baby Dedication instead of infant baptism. You can explore the practice of Baby Dedication, what it means, and the responsibilities involved in Baby Dedication at About.com.
Parent-Child and Baby Dedication Resources
These four free resources are compliments of Let’s Worship Magazine. For more children’s articles and ministry helps visit LifeWay Kids.
- Read a recent discussion post about baby dedication from our blog.
- 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.
- A New Idea for a Baby Dedication Pastor Frank Lewis describes 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.
- A Prayer of Dedication by Matt Tullos. This baby dedication prayer can be read by a leader or be done as a responsive reading.
- 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”
More Baby Dedication Resources
- How to create a “Cradle Care” Ministry from The Inclusive Church
- Baby Dedication – What Does Your Church Do? This is a discussion post about church practices of baby dedication.
- Baby Dedication by Dr. Neil Chadwick A short order of service that includes a scriptural meditation on parenting.
- Baby Dedication: The renewal of a godly tradition. This is an article that explains the scriptural support for baby dedication. Written by a Christian Missionary Alliance Church.
Poem For Baby Dedication
- THE GIFT OF A CHILD — M.S. Lowdnes
Baby Dedication at Southeast Christian Church
Southeast Christian Church is one of the largest churches in America. They are located in Louisville, KY. They are know for their commitment to the Word of God and their excellent children’s ministries. Here is the instructions for baby dedication from their website.
Baby Dedication is…
- An opportunity to thank God for the precious gift of your child.
- An opportunity to publicly declare your intentions to raise your child in a Christian home.
- A benchmark you can return to time and time again.
- A family dedication, where the parents commit themselves to abide by biblical principles and to raise their children according to God’s standards.
I have the honor of conducting my one year old grand daughters baby dedication the end of April. I would like to acknowledge and include her 2 years old sister in the dedication. Does anyone have thoughts or ideas of how to include the older sister? Anything would be helpful.
Great resource!!!! Thank you so much!!!
This is great information and we share the same views and we do close to a similar format. I also suggest maybe you can viedo the ceromony for the parents and ask the parents to give a $5 donation to go towards your media ministry. The parents might want more copies so that family members that were not able to attend will be able to see the baby gets dedicated. Also Have the parents and baby take a picture with the Pastor and First Lady with the Pastor holding the baby or whatever set up you will have so that when the baby grows up or get married one day, he or she can look back and see the importance of being dedicated.
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Thank you for this helpful information. I would also like to share that we have found a wonderful resource for personalized Christian baby dedication gifts and certificates. They are done by a very talented American artist Linda Paige-Tolis. They may be seen at paige-tolisdesigns.com/baby-dedication-gifts/html . I think you too will be delighted.
Here is a link to the children’s sermon we did for the parent/child dedication Sunday:
http://www.sermons4kids.com/gods_return_policy_roberts.htm
@Tanya: Thanks for sharing!
Thank you soo much.. greatly appreciated it!!! Be blessed!
The third link under “More Baby Dedication Resources” has been moved to:
http://www.curwensvillealliance.org/?p=277
I’m a worship minister and found there are a limited number of good songs to use for a Baby Dedication service. There are a number of really good ones out there. Because of the limited selection, I decided to write my own.
You can listen to the song, In Good Hands (Baby Dedication Song), on my website, benchilcote.com.
Thanks for sharing.
For anyone looking for In Good Hands, my website changed: it can be found at http://www.benchilcote.net/in-good-hands
Thanks!
Ben
thank u for this wonderful sites… it help me a lots to find ideas.. God Bless
Thank you so much for this site.. You’re a blessing! I wonder if you have mp3 of songs that we can use for the dedication service?
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This was very helpful. Thank you for collecting these.