Child Dedication

Parent – Child Dedication

INTRODUCTION

We, like Hannah in , have come together to present these children to the Lord. In this amazing story, Hannah was unable to give birth and as she prayed to God for a child, she promised to give him back to the Lord. God answered her prayer and when her son was approximately 3 years old, she took him to the High Priest and says, “The Lord answered my prayer and gave this boy to me. Now I give him back to the Lord. He will belong to the Lord all of his life.”

BODY

BODY

I. Introduction of children and parents

Each family set is introduced: parents, child, grandparents, etc. (Issue each family their perspective books/Bible as each come up). TAKE PICTURES OF EACH FAMILY AS THEY RECEIVE THE BIBLE.

Patrick & Taylor Levantino

Maisie Hays: Austin & Brody

Wendy & Jake Martinez: Coby & Carli

Taylor & Patrick Levantino: Mila

Patrick & Rachael Turo:  Hannah & Lena

Cody Young: Lillian

Morgan: Preseligh

II. Scripture reading

In a few moments I will read from , which was a command for all the families of God to meet every day for the purpose of teaching God’s ways diligently to their children. There were three groups addressed here: 1) the children; for us, it is the group being dedicated 2) the family; for us that refers to the mothers and fathers, grandparents and relatives; and, 3) the church family; yes, we too have a responsibility to teach God’s ways to these children.

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 ESV

“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:1–9 ESV

“Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the rules—that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long. Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

III. Dedication Charge

Listen close to the questions that I am about to ask, and answer “yes” if you are committed to honoring this charge before the Lord:

A. Dedication charge to family

Do you hereby promise to faithfully teach and train your child in all the ways of the Lord, to faithfully honor His word and promote His work, to encourage your child to know and love God with all his or her heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to love your child by being an example of God’s grace in your daily living?

to encourage our child to know and love God with all their heart, soul, mind, and strength. We want God to use our child for His glory, honor, and praise. We promise to love our child by being an example of His grace in our daily living.

We hereby promise to faithfully teach and train our child in all the ways of the Lord. We promise to faithfully honor His word and promote His work. We promise to encourage spiritual growth through personal example of God’s graces in daily living.

B. Dedication charge to church

D. Commitment from the congregation. (Congregation repeats after the pastor.) As a congregation of friends, we promise to support this family. We promise to pray for them. We promise to encourage them as they seek to nurture and guide this child in all the ways of the Lord.

As a congregation of brothers and sisters in Christ, do you promise to support these families, to pray for them, and to encourage them as they seek to nurture and guide their children in all the ways of the Lord?

CONCLUSION

Conclude with prayer.

B. Pictures