S/O GodParents...

Victoria6F · June 2011

(please no flames) We haven't had Ella baptized yet. Mainly becuase we're still trying to find a church we like, I grew up Baptist and Luthern, I prefer the Luthern church. H is born/raised Catholic, even went to Catholic school before his mom passed away.

I don't want El baptized Catholic, and Baptist don't 'believe' in doing it until the child knows what it means, to be baptized. SO we've agreed to have her baptized Luthern, (I've been baptized as both, for the above reasons).

We have a Godmother for El, but no Godfather, do you have to have a Godfather? We just don't have any male people we'd trust to be her Godfather. Can we have 2 Godmothers? I guess I don't know how all this works.

lucylea · June 2011

As long as your church "rules" are okay with it I see no problem with having two Godmothers and no Godfather, or even just one Godmother. I was baptized Lutheran and have three Godmothers and two Godfathers (all my siblings).

Temp257387375002530 · June 2011

No flames here...we are in the same boat...Haven't had Maddie baptized because we haven't found the right church! I would ask the church, I don't know why you couldn't. GL!!

MrsT624 · June 2011

No, in the Lutheran church you just need a sponsor (aka godparent), and the number and/or sex doesn't matter!

sydlc88 · June 2011

We are Lutheran, you can do whatever you want. You can have 1 godmother and no godfather, you can have 2 godmothers, you can have no godparents. Really the godparents are just another set of people close to you to help your child focus on their faith as they grow up. We picked my brother who is not even Christian, because the responsibility of raising our child in a Christian home and with a Christian faith really lies with us as parents, not the godparents. Our pastor was perfectly okay with this.

All-His · June 2011

Lutherans aren't strict about these matters.

You can have 1 or many sponsers. We chose just one for Gretta (my SIL) b/c she wasn't married and b/c we really wanted there to be a special relationship between the two and it is my personal opinion that if too many people are the sponsers, they might not do their individual best to help support the child in his/her faith walk. Ingrid's sponsers are my sister and her husband, who will make awesome Godparents as this type of thing is really important to them.

sweetpea18 · June 2011

No flames from me. Reese was 14 months before she was baptized. We still haven't found a church to join in Texas. We wanted all of our family to be able to be there, so we ended up waiting and doing it in Iowa.

Reese has one godmother and that's it. She will also be Grier's godmother when we get her baptized.

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