Nathan's Baby Dedication

 On Sunday February 9th we were finally able to have a public declaration of dedicating Nathan to the Lord. As Hannah prayed for her son Samuel and then gave him back to the Lord, we saw this as a chance to do the same. 

 Pastor Shannon, the Pastor of Discipleship at our church did the dedication. Apparently it was the first one he ever did! That's kinda cool! It turned out that David was able to share Nathan's Story - the years of praying to God for a child. Nathan means "Gift from God" and we have already seen what a gift he is to us, but we don't want to hold on to this gift for ourselves. We know that God has given him to us that we might give him back as a gift to God and to others. 

The verse we chose for him is:

1 Peter 4:10

 "As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:"

It's also neat that his middle name is Peter and verse comes from 1 Peter! =]

Nathan did super well on stage. He loved all the attention as usual. He was quite enamored by Pastor Shannon. 

I love that it looks like Nathan is praying with us too!

How neat to have our church praying for us as we raise this precious little boy. Our prayer is that he will come to know Jesus and live for Him with total abandon.

And just for fun here's some pictures in the snazzy outfit...