Baptisms

Thinking about getting baptized or having your children baptized?

Here are a few things you need to know first.

ADULTS:  

If you are not a member of LCPC, please call Barbara Pettit at (818) 790-6708, X215 to sign up to take the membership class first.  After you have joined LCPC, you can then be baptized or have your child baptized in one of our worship services.

As you commit to following Jesus Christ and join the church, this includes baptism. If you have not received Christian baptism, adults in the class are baptized during a worship service of your choice. To do this, please call or email Gloria Hill, Sr. Admin. Asst. to Rev. Dr. Gary Dennis & Rev. Dr. Chuck Osburn (gloria@lacanacapda.org), (818) 790-6708, X220.

If you were baptized as a child, infant or adult in another recognized Christian Church, there is no need to be baptized a second time. We recognize the authenticity of that baptism if it was done “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.”

 YOUTH:  

Our Youth Ministry has a special class for junior and senior high youth to prepare them for their baptism. The youth person needs to contact Rev. Kristin Leucht, Associate Pastor for Family Ministry,  at 818-790-6708, X201 or kristin@lacanadapc.org.

CHILDREN:   

To arrange the baptism of your children after you have joined LCPC,  (if they have not already been baptized “in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit”), please call or email Gloria Hill, Sr. Admin. Asst. to Rev. Dr. Gary Dennis & Rev. Dr. Chuck Osburn (gloria@lacanacapda.org), (818) 790-6708, X220. She will try to accommodate your desired date for baptism. We ask you to remember that we usually work with only one family at each service, and there are some Sundays on which we cannot have baptisms due to Communion or other special events. You and your children or infant will need to meet with the Pastor doing the baptism in the week before the scheduled Sunday. Parents and children can be baptized together if desired.

From the Presbyterian (USA) Book of Order

A Sermon on Baptism “Children of the Promise“

Child baptism Child Baptism Forms

Adult baptism Adult Baptism Forms

After you have read all of the above, please contact Gloria Hill at gloria@lacanadapc.org to arrange for a date for your baptism.