cherished, our church is Anglican and from my fuzzy memory of the process at least one of DD's godparents had to be a baptised Anglican. As it turned out, both of the godparents we chose were Anglican anyway, but that was luck. However, the idea is that the godparents agree to assist with raising the child in the religion you are choosing to have them baptised in. I would think it a bit odd to not identify with that church and agree to do this. I am godmother to my friend's little boy and that was in a Uniting Church, where they weren't as strict (just have to agree to pass on Christian principles, that kind of thing). But Catholic and Anglican still are. We would want to choose godparents who agree with our choice of faith for our children and are familiar with the religious traditions of our church. The point is that if anything happened to us, they have agreed to oversee our child's Christian upbringing. To us, that would mean helping organise confirmation, help them attend church, etc, since neither of our families are Anglican so wouldn't have the faintest idea of what it means, when it happens, etc. We'd also prefer an Anglican school for high school, this would be something I'd expect them to help out with.

DTMS?