¹² Over the years, you have likely seen many people get baptized​—including some of your peers and perhaps even your siblings.

Akifusa, a 15-year-old, said that a part on the Service Meeting helped him to make his decision to get baptized.

Ayumi got baptized when she was ten years old.

12. How was an old magazine instrumental in helping one family to come to know Jehovah?

¹² In 1953, Robert, Lila, and their children moved from a big city into a dilapidated old farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

There, in the midst of it all, lay a copy of The Golden Age magazine.

Johan, who got baptized at age 12, comments on the pressure that his classmates put on him to use electronic cigarettes​—vaping.

Consider the case of Rico, a young boy in France, who was discouraged because his father, who did not share his beliefs, was opposed to Rico’s getting baptized.

Rico thought that he would have to wait until he was of legal age to serve Jehovah fully.

After her mother got baptized, Anna began to study the Bible at age 9 with her father’s approval.

He got baptized at age 12.

A Witness in Greece said: “I was baptized when I was 12 years old.

For example, Tamar and her sister Keila were both baptized at the age of 10 and entered the full-time pioneer ministry by 11.

12, 13. (a) What integrity-keeping course did a youngster take? (b) Where may our youths find encouragement today?

¹² Jesus indicated that those who are cut off by family members for the sake of the truth will be rewarded “a hundredfold.” (Mark 10:29, 30)

At 13 years of age, she started to preach from house to house, and the family’s opposition intensified.

Although in no sense of the word could they serve as appointed servants in the congregation, their age would be no impediment to their being preachers and proclaimers of the “good news,” ministers of God.

Jesus at the age of 12 showed himself to be capable of ‘ministering’ God’s Word. (Luke 2:46-50)

For this reason children are not baptized by the ‘Witnesses’.”

On this point the Correio de Manhã, February 21, 1959, published further: “We took occasion to note the presence of a number of young people from 12 to 16 years of age.

When I was 12, my father passed away.

These good study habits were key to my getting baptized at the age of 14, on August 8, 1969.

At 12 years of age, Toby set the goal of reading the entire Bible before his baptism.

A teenager named Abigail, who got baptized at age 12, says: “I feel that Jehovah deserves our thanks more than anyone else in the universe.

However, when I was about 12, I became a Kingdom publisher and regularly shared in the field ministry from then on.

At the age of 16, I dedicated my life to Jehovah, getting baptized on July 24, 1954, at a convention in Toronto, Canada.

I was baptized in 1941 at the age of 12.

12, 13. Describe ways young brothers may reach out for responsibility.

¹² Are you a serious baptized brother in your late teens?

In 1923, at 12 years of age, he was baptized in symbol of his dedication to God.

At least by the age of 12, the young Jesus had come to appreciate that he must be busy doing his heavenly Father’s business. (Luke 2:48, 49)

Though the family head, Marian, died not long ago, his wife, Annamma, and 12 of their 15 children, ranging in age from 13 to 33, continue to serve Jehovah as a household.

This aroused her interest and, in February 1976, she began to study the Bible, along with two teen-age children.

And at a circuit assembly of Jehovah’s Witnesses, on September 12, 1976, she became a dedicated, baptized Witness.​—Contributed.

11. What very important event in Jesus’ life took place in the year 29 C.E.?

¹¹ After the events of the year 12 C.E. we have no particular record of Jesus until the fall of 29 C.E., when, at the age of thirty, he comes to John the Baptist, evidently his cousin, requesting to be baptized in the Jordan River.

12. (a) How did Jesus show he loved his heavenly father? (b) How can Christians today follow Jesus’ course in loving Jehovah?

¹² But what does it mean to love God?

At the age of thirty he made a dedication of his life to his Father to do His will and was baptized.

12, 13. Does the fact that Jesus formally came to do God’s will prove his immersion was in symbol of his dedication? Explain.

¹² We know it is a dedication that Paul referred to respecting Jesus because both the fortieth Psalm that he quotes and the tenth chapter of Hebrews so state.

“After being baptized Jesus immediately came up from the water; and, look! the heavens were opened up, and he saw descending like a dove God’s spirit coming upon him.