Baptismal Program - revisited
Baptismal Program
One of the reasons I want to do this is an article my wife found. This article talks about using videos while the people who were involved in the baptism are changing out of their wet clothes.
see http://mormonlifehacker.com/use-mormon-messages-for-baptism-waiting/ for the whole article
This article talks in some detail about selection of the videos and some ideas on getting programs to help you compile them.
The reality is that there are some really good ones out there to use. Many by Elder Dieter F Uchtdorf and others by President Monson.
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The Mormon Messages put out by the church are recommended but, each is generally only a bit more then 1 minute and at the maximum about 3 minutes. You'd have to have a fair number of these to make up the 10-20 minutes needed in most cases. so a mix of slightly longer videos and Mormon message commercial style clips works best. You do have to be careful to not use to many non-official church clips. They can become awkward if you have not viewed them fully and in many cases they can be just a handful of pictures and the like with music. Basically, a power point presentation moved into the video realm.
As I have specified in the previous posts the program is generally fairly simple. There are not a whole lot things to resolve that are variable like. You'll will always have an opening prayer and song. There will also be a closing prayer and song. The middle flexes a bit depending on whether you decide to have a separate person speak on the Holy Ghost and Baptism. I've seen it done both ways and either works. It's all a matter of preference and deciding what will work for the types of people present. If you have a lot of people unfamiliar with the process and that are not members you will definitely want to have them split up. If it is a bunch of relatives that are all members you will likely combine since it becomes a little like a review for the baptisee and others present.
The big thing that can break the spirit of the meeting is what happens will the people are changing their clothes.
Many things have been utilized to a varying degree of success. Again it depends on those attending and what you might want to achieve. For a convert baptism the missionaries generally will take a few minutes to invite those attending who are not members to find out more and bear their testimonies. Unfortunately, even for a great missionary it can be hard to accordion his comments to match that of the time needed.
Other times people will simply sing some hymn or primary songs. This works great to bring or maintain the spirit. Bearing of testimonies is also a good one but, lets be realistic. How many times have you sat in fast and testimony meeting and witnessed the long dead spaces of time when no one goes up to the pulpit?
So we decided on using some church videos but, felt at a loss original as to which to use. Then after determining the longer ones would not work we considered the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. This also proved problematic since they have mostly Christmas related material available. And then it hit us. Use the videos from Mormon messages and the like found on the Internet.
I'm going to include a few here for your viewing pleasure. You'll find they are all very excellent and depending on the audience can be used to great advantage.
So if you know someone that will be putting on a baptismal program in the near future, or even a 'Great to Be 8' presentation why not let them in on this new trend. Videos during the interlude might just be what they have been looking for to fill the time appropriately.
Please leave your comments on what you have done and which videos you are using.
Buaidh - NO - Bas
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