I, too, am very interested in the board's collective thoughts on this issue. I have two adopted daughters from India (in addition to my four "natural" sons). When deciding whether to adopt, and whether to adopt my first daughter in particular, we told God that if she is his covenant child, we wanted her. (She's know 4 1/2; see my Avatar.) She was 1 1/2 when we brought her home, and she was baptized as a covenant child in our family. Were we wrong in doing so?

I should add that we did not have our second daughter baptized. She was approximately 7 to 9 years old when we brought her home. Our church has grown very rapidly in the past ten years or so and there are a lot of refugees from credo-baptist backgrounds who are slowly being won over to reformed doctrine by solid, Christ-exalting, reformed, expositional preaching. However, as I understand it, our session has been a little reluctant to baptize older children (unless they do make a profession of faith) lest they cause any confusion in people's minds about the nature of the baptism. Of course, we have infant baptisms very regularly. I haven't pressed the issue about my older daughter's baptism, but perhaps I should. Thoughts?

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Lee Lauridsen
Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church
Lawrence, KS