The public profession of faith of a child who has grown up in the church is one of the most precious blessings we receive from our covenant God.

Your consistory has discussed and prayed about how best to educate our covenant children as a Church, and how best to encourage you as their parents to bring them up in the Lord to prepare them for their public professions of faith.

We realize that all children are different, and this means that we must be flexible, but we are setting the bar high for our children to ensure that the faith is passed down from generation to generation. The spiritual vitality of our original core group must become that of our children to ensure a solid Reformed Church here in the future.

(to read the rest of this essay go to Consistory Position Papers)