Child Dedications

Dedications will be held on January 18, 2026

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At Redemption Tucson, we enjoy celebrating child dedication alongside your family. The dedication ceremony takes place before the congregation from the stage on a Sunday morning. Before going through the child dedication process, it’s important to understand what child dedication is, as well as how it functions within the church.

Child dedication is not a sacrament like baptism or communion—you won’t find instructions for it anywhere in the New Testament. There’s nothing magical about it—it doesn’t save your child or guarantee that they will eventually come to trust Jesus as Savior and Lord. However, child dedication can serve as a powerful moment, for both family and church, as both parties commit to working together to raise the child in a way that honors God.

We perform child dedications to give parents a formal opportunity to publicly proclaim their intentions to worship Jesus in childrearing. There is a two-fold benefit to this: first, it’s a step of boldness for parents to truly declare that all of life—even parenting—really is all for Jesus.

Second, it creates built-in accountability for parents within the church body, as now there will be dozens of witnesses before whom the dedication vows will be made.

The child dedication vows are listed below. Please read through these prayerfully together as a couple (or individually, if you are single) and come ready to express your commitment as outlined below.

"Do you commit to the discipleship of your children?" 

"Rather than piling on a burden that cannot be upheld, will you structure your home in such a gospel-centered way that God’s grace through Jesus lays the foundation for all of life?"