Baptized for Life
Baptized for Life is a Lilly Endowment Inc. funded grant initiative that nurtured participating congregations across six dioceses through a baptismal and vocational lens, focusing on catechumenal basics: Lectionary + Liturgy + Life. Baptized for Life (BFL) affirmed that confident Christian vocations are formed around scripture, community, and the sacraments for the purpose of living faithfully in the world (vocation) every day. Metrics like average Sunday attendance describe who is there. Without intentional formation, they say nothing about what a congregation is becoming.
“I just wished others could have had the opportunity to experience this. We should all continue to live into our Baptism Covenant. To understand how much each of us are loved by God. Thank you for this opportunity that enhanced my spiritual growth so much. I feel that I’m equipped to hear what God is calling me to do and act on it.”
“It’s been such a privilege and an honor to walk alongside these congregations – to see not only how each congregation is being impacted by the Spirit of God as they lean into their baptismal covenants, as they lean into trying different ways of engaging the life of discipleship in their congregations, but also to witness how it’s impacting and rippling out into the entirety of our diocese. I am so grateful for the work of Baptized for Life and for the energy and the life that has been birthed through this initiative.”
“Our catechist modeled the spiritual practices that have become integral to the way we go about things now. We can begin to dream again, and as we do, our time of formation, and really catechesis with our catechist, and with the larger BFL initiative, will make those grand ideas so much richer and deeper now that we can finally pursue them. Baptized for Life has been a miraculous, nourishing, and stabilizing relationship for our church, for the people at Gethsemane – we are forever grateful.”
