{"id":2609,"date":"2013-11-21T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T08:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1063197155.n126084.test.prositehosting.co.uk\/?page_id=2609"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:45:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T10:45:53","slug":"having-your-child-christened","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/help-and-support\/having-your-child-christened\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Your Child Christened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-9m94ap-ba4d5aa0dfd087e3bf5475ea7d58d9c7\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-9m94ap-ba4d5aa0dfd087e3bf5475ea7d58d9c7{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-9m94ap-ba4d5aa0dfd087e3bf5475ea7d58d9c7 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-9m94ap-ba4d5aa0dfd087e3bf5475ea7d58d9c7 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-9m94ap-ba4d5aa0dfd087e3bf5475ea7d58d9c7 av-special-heading-h3  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_image  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Having your Child Christened at St. Mary\u2019s<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-3mz7dt-61ff279d40726cbfc848558614d022ca\">\n.avia-image-container.av-3mz7dt-61ff279d40726cbfc848558614d022ca img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-3mz7dt-61ff279d40726cbfc848558614d022ca .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-3mz7dt-61ff279d40726cbfc848558614d022ca av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_textblock '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-14523 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-14523 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Albie-Christening-1.jpeg\" alt='' title='Albie Christening'  height=\"593\" width=\"687\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Albie-Christening-1.jpeg 687w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Albie-Christening-1-300x259.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Albie-Christening-1-450x388.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-2mjwld-05481bdf82da0e7e14832e258b25a6a4 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>If you are interested in getting your child christened at St Mary&#8217;s, and you live in our parish, or have a particular link to our church, then we will be delighted to conduct the Christening at St Mary&#8217;s. A Christening marks the beginning of a child&#8217;s journey within God&#8217;s family, and is a moment of great rejoicing. At a Christening, Parents and Godparents make significant promises, confirming their own faith in Christ, and promising to do all they can to bring the child up surrounded by the love of the Christian Family, so that they can explore the Christian Faith for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to consider a christening for your child, the first thing to do is to come along to a service at St Mary&#8217;s, so that you can meet us and begin to find out about our church family and the faith that we share.<\/p>\n<p>You are then welcome to get in touch with our administrator, Laura on office@horshamstmarys.org.uk to explore a date for the Christening, and fill in a baptism application form. The Baptism Form includes your choice of 3 (or more) Godparents \u2013 who you need to check have been Baptised themselves (and preferably also Confirmed) as Christians \u2013 since their main role is to help\u00a0you as parents, in bringing up your child as a Christian within the family of the Church.<\/p>\n<p>Once the baptism date has been confirmed, you will be contacted either a member of our ministry team, or by one of our baptism visitors, who can help to introduce you to the christening service, and the promises that you will make on behalf of your child.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward very much to welcoming you\u00a0and celebrating with your family!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-15898\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195-1030x686.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195-1500x1000.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC07195-705x470.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2413,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15933,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2609\/revisions\/15933"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stmaryshorsham.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}