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Conference yukon::christian_v7

Title:	The CHRISTIAN Notesfile
Notice:	Jesus reigns! - Intros: note 4; Praise: note 165
Moderator:	ICTHUS::YUILLEON

Created:	Tue Feb 16 1993
Last Modified:	Fri May 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	962
Total number of notes:	42902

565.0. ""Godparents????"" by JUPITR::LCLARK () Wed Sep 14 1994 14:32

    
    
    Please add to the appropriate note.
    
    
    I am searching for information regarding "God Parents". 
    
    Such as:
    
    Role, Responsibility, etc.  I am planning on getting the boys "Blessed"
    as they do in the Baptist Churches.  And these are some of the
    questions that came up in conversation.
    
    
    Thanks, Leslie

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
565.1	Mentoring as Well	JULIET::MORALES_NA	Sweet Spirit's Gentle Breeze	`Wed Sep 14 1994 14:38`	4
	Historically the Godparents are the ones who agree to care for the child if something should happen to the parents.
565.2		CSC32::J_OPPELT	Oracle-bound	`Wed Sep 14 1994 17:08`	2
	Unfortunately in this society all too often the role of Godparent is nothing more than ceremonial.
565.3	Help the child to know God	KAHALA::JOHNSON_L	Leslie Ann Johnson	`Sun Sep 18 1994 23:33`	13
	There was a discussion of this somewhere else recently. I think it was in the Parenting notes file. Sponsers or "God-parents" at a child's baptism or dedication promise to pray for the child, and contribute to the child's education about who God is. They can be thought of as theological mentors. Unfortunately, it does tend to be a formality or ceremonial thing. In the U.S. at least, they have no legal responsibility for or authority over the child in the event of the parents' inability to care for or raise the child unless they are named guardians through some legal method like the courts. Leslie