Child Dedication

About Child Dedication

At Hope Niagara, we encourage parents to publicly dedicate their children to the Lord.

If interested in having your child dedicated, please read the following information and sign up below. We count it a true privilege to walk with our families through this significant occasion!

Sign Up For Child Dedication

Parent Commitment

  1. Parents are acknowledging their child as a gift from God (Psalm 127:3-5).

  2. Parents are publicly declaring their intention to raise their child in such a way that they are given an opportunity to know God and to establish a personal relationship with Christ (Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Ephesians 6:4).

  3. Parents are affirming their total dependence upon the Lord (John 15:5).

  4. Parents are asking family, friends and the church community to prayerfully support and hold them accountable to these commitments (Hebrews 10:24-25).

Steps for Child Dedication

Dedicating parent(s) attend Step 1 and Step 2.

  1. A completed “My Testimony” form

  2. Attending Hope Bible Church for 6 months

  3. A completed “Child Dedication” form

Child Dedication

  • Dedicating a child does not impart salvation to the child. Salvation is the free gift of God given to someone who by faith trusts in Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord and turns from their sin.

  • Child dedication is also not baptism. Baptism is for believers—those who have already by faith trusted in Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of their sins—to publicly identify themselves with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ through the symbolic act of being immersed in water.