title: God Is...: A Baby Dedication & Baptismal Booklet for New Believers
author: Nan Harder
description: Nan Harder is a mother of two adult children and has been married for over two decades. She has a Master of Public Health degree specializing in Social and Behavioral Sciences, certificates in Health Administration and Health Informatics, and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies concentrating in Prior Learning. She has been a traditional Sunday School teacher for children of all ages for several years because she has a heart for them and their families, who may or may not regularly attend a local church for numerous reasons but, nonetheless, need to develop a reliable and intimate relationship between themselves individually and as a family group with the Judeo-Christian Creator God of the living in His three persons of Father, Son, and Spirit, as revealed in nature and the truth of His Word, the Bible (John 14:6).
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  [Dedication](part0003.xhtml#wEVbpApYSK_Ksyf5Np8-Dg2193)
  
  
  
  
  
  I dedicate this book to my three children, who are immeasurable gifts from God
  to me. The fact that they all have chosen to follow Christ is a dream come
  true, but their choice to co-labor with me in the advancing of God’s kingdom
  in the earth is . . . well . . . my heaven on earth!
  
  
  Joshua . . . you are and always have been my Champion! On July 28, 1987, I
  discovered a depth of God’s love I had never known as you were being born. God
  spoke to me and said, “Do you see what you are feeling?” Out loud, in the
  delivery room, I said, “Yes!” He said, “That is just what I feel about you
  every day.” Son, my life has never been the same since that day. Every day YOU
  remind me how much God loves me.
  
  
  Keela . . . you are my Daisy and my sunshine wrapped in one. I named you nine
  years before you were born. One night when your mother and I were having
  devotions in our sophomore ye