Baptism..

schmidters10

Lo gets baptised this weekend. Was wondering what the going rate was for the monetary gift in the thank you card to the priest? Any help would be appreciated.

numberonemama

We gave 100...which is what sil and mil said and they live in high cost of living areas

Cynthia1207

We will be giving 50.

LexiSophie55

This is new to me.  We didn't give anything...oops?!

lauracoro

We gave 200.

caseys02

My parents took care of this for DD's because I completely didn't know it was appropriate. They did $50.

LexiSophie55

This is driving me crazy.  For those that paid - did you have a separate ceremony?  Or did you have it done during the service?  Ours was done during the service.  The church already pay our pastor for that - he just read a few pages that are for baptism - that was the only difference.  

lauracoro

rachelmichelle1:

LexiSophie55:

This is new to me.  We didn't give anything...oops?!

^THIS! Wow. I had no idea.

 

I know her Oma donated a sum of money in Juno's name for a new pulpit, but I didn't find that out until after the ceremony. We gave to the offering that Sunday...

$200 is a LOT of money!! 

I guess I should have said that we hadn't been to church in a while so I considered it to kind of be our annual donation. It was a guilt gift lol.

lauracoro

LexiSophie55:

This is driving me crazy. nbsp;For those that paid did you have a separate ceremony? nbsp;Or did you have it done during the service? nbsp;Ours was done during the service. nbsp;The church already pay our pastor for that he just read a few pages that are for baptism that was the only difference. nbsp;

I had a seperate one but would have done the same regardless.

leannsiiple

LexiSophie55:

This is new to me.  We didn't give anything...oops?!

 

This. We gave during the offering but not nearly what everyone said they donated! oops, is right haha

Cynthia1207

LexiSophie55:

This is driving me crazy.  For those that paid - did you have a separate ceremony?  Or did you have it done during the service?  Ours was done during the service.  The church already pay our pastor for that - he just read a few pages that are for baptism - that was the only difference.  

We are having a separate ceremony but the donation is at your discretion so we just decided to give 50$.  It's not obligatory.

Cynthia1207

LexiSophie55:

This is driving me crazy.  For those that paid - did you have a separate ceremony?  Or did you have it done during the service?  Ours was done during the service.  The church already pay our pastor for that - he just read a few pages that are for baptism - that was the only difference.  

Damn TB won't let me delete the double post!

numberonemama

Cynthia1207:

LexiSophie55:

This is driving me crazy.  For those that paid - did you have a separate ceremony?  Or did you have it done during the service?  Ours was done during the service.  The church already pay our pastor for that - he just read a few pages that are for baptism - that was the only difference.  

We are having a separate ceremony but the donation is at your discretion so we just decided to give 50$.  It's not obligatory.

this...I even got them to do it on a Saturday afternoon, 

caseys02

LexiSophie55:

This is driving me crazy.  For those that paid - did you have a separate ceremony?  Or did you have it done during the service?  Ours was done during the service.  The church already pay our pastor for that - he just read a few pages that are for baptism - that was the only difference.  

 

Ours was separate after the last morning service.