MINISTRY GOALS
• Baptism Facilitator Couple goals are:
Establish an environment and ambience that enables Baptismal couples to feel comfortable to express their faith.
Facilitate a discussion of faith and give witness to ones’ own faith using concrete examples from the family.
Get couples to look at their personal faith life and at their relationship with God and the Church, as well as to examine their own values.
Teach couples the Catholic understanding of Baptism.
Help parents realize they are the primary teachers and role models for their child. Baptism cannot give the child something the parents don’t have.
Form relationships between the couples who are asking for Baptism for their child and other couples, and then with the parish through these relationships.
Give the parents a good experience of Church and of Holy Family.
• Baptism Hospitality goals are:
Assist with all baptisms on a rotating basis.
Be adequately trained and comfortable with greeting families and supporting priest or deacon.
Be an example of love and care for families who are baptizing.
Build community and relationship with parents and families who are having a child baptized.
Help to make baptism a joyful, happy event giving families a good experience of Church and Holy Family.
Knowledgeable of baptismal checklist.
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