Ellie's dedication

This past Sunday was Ellie's dedication at our new church in Missouri. Here are some pictures and what it means to us.

Lord, thank you for the gift you have given us in our children.
They are such a blessing to us and they bring us so much joy.

You have entrusted us to nurture these little ones and to show them Your love.
We commit our roles as parents to You.
Please, God, help us to care for our children as You have cared for us...
with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness and self-control.

Help us to show Benjamin and Elizabeth what it means to follow Jesus 

in the way we live out our lives each day...

in the way we love You, in the way we love them, and in the way we love others.
Help us to teach them about You...
Your goodness, Your holiness, Your grace, mercy and love.

Lord, we pray that Benjamin and Ellie will understand that Jesus lived and died and rose from the dead so that they could have salvation and experience fellowship with You, the One True God.

 

We ask that they will come to know and follow Jesus at an early age so that they can spared from a life apart from You and so that they can experience true freedom, fullness of life and Your unending love.
Keep Your hand upon these little ones and work through us as we raise them.

Amen.