revsdd
Well-Known Member
Kind of a tradition in this congregation. It includes a preparation time where we do some teaching about baptism, faith, the church, etc. and then a run through of the service that helps us deal with specifics around the liturgy such as the questions to the parents. Never done this anywhere until I moved here two years ago.I do Baptism in lieu of Children's Time so the younger portion of the congregation are still present. On Sundays when there is Sunday School I have taken to doing Communion right after Children's Time as then the Sunday School folk stay upstairs until after receiving (as they were less than reliable at coming upstairs later on). When there is no SS Communion is later on.
More to the point....
you have a baptism rehearsal?
We do both baptism and children's time. On Communion Sundays we have children's time later in the service just before Communion, so the children and teachers come up from Sunday School rather than going down to Sunday School.