I Go to a Free Church of Scotland Church

The Sacraments

Baptism
baptism
 The Church practises Infant Baptism, believing that the children of Christians are included in God's covenant (agreement) with His people. The Baptism takes place at the end of the service. The mother and baby might arrive just in time for this while the father will have been present for the whole service. Sometimes the mother is accompanied into church by a friend.

There are no Godparents but the whole congregation stands as the child is baptised, to show that they are taking a vow to pray for the child and to support the parents as they work to bring up their child in the Christian faith. Baptism does not make a child a Christian. That involves knowing Jesus Christ personally and it is then that the importance of Baptism becomes effective.

Christian adults who have not been baptised as infants may also be baptised. Baptism is by sprinkling water on the forehead, symbolic of washing with water.
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