{"id":285,"date":"2016-03-01T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T18:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/?page_id=285"},"modified":"2020-01-23T07:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T12:11:57","slug":"church-etiquette-for-baptisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/?page_id=285","title":{"rendered":"Church Etiquette for Baptisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Church Etiquette for Baptisms<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>It is often difficult for those attending the baptism in our church to know the acceptable way of worshiping. Here are some tips that we ask you to share with your family and friends.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Parents and Godparents sit in 2<sup>nd<\/sup> row on the &#8216;choir&#8217; side<\/strong>. Have godparents sit on the aisle and parents with child sit in center (so if baby cries in service after the baptism is completed, you can easily slip out of the pew and take the child out the side entryway.\u00a0\u00a0 And if the baby becomes quiet or sleeps, you can slip back into the same pew on the outside. <strong>Please do not walk in front of the congregation or down the center aisle once the service has begun.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Please <strong>advise any friends or family members coming with young children<\/strong> to sit near the back and if the baby\/toddler\/child is not able to be quiet, take them to one of the crying rooms in the back of the church.<\/li>\n<li>It is easy to hear crying\/running\/talking in the room behind the sanctuary so please advise anyone who goes there to keep noise to a minimum.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage each family member to use the <strong>Bulletins<\/strong> (Orders of Service which are provided to each worshiper) and to follow along with the prayers and hymns.<\/li>\n<li>If the service is one where <strong>communion<\/strong> is served, please clarify that <strong>ALL are welcome<\/strong> and invited to come forward, take bread, dip it into the cup and receive.<\/li>\n<li>Please remember to inform family and friends that <strong>no flash pictures<\/strong> are allowed in worship and video may be taken only from a seated position in the pew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is essential for the deacons to share this information as some families not familiar with our tradition for worship see the service as ONLY the baptism \u2013 and while every child is to be celebrated \u2026 talking, moving about, disregard for the hour of worship can be very distracting for those who have come to sense God\u2019s presence in hymns, prayers, sermon, and others aspects of the total worship experience.<\/p>\n<p>We seek to be an open and welcoming congregation and hope that those who come to worship with us will sense the hospitality and holiness of this faith community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church Etiquette for Baptisms It is often difficult for those attending the baptism in our church to know the acceptable way of worshiping. Here are some tips that we ask you to share with your family and friends. Parents and Godparents sit in 2nd row on the &#8216;choir&#8217; side. Have godparents sit on the aisle and parents with child sit in center (so if baby cries in service after the baptism is completed, you can easily slip out of the pew and take the child out the side entryway.\u00a0\u00a0 And if the baby becomes quiet or sleeps, you can slip&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-285","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/285\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scc-ucc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}