Baptism sponsors

Can a member of the WELS be a baptism sponsor for a child in a Missouri Synod church? Thank you for your time and your service!

You really want to clarify what role parents have in mind for individuals they have asked to serve as sponsors.  The role could range from one end of the scale where sponsors are given an honorary role and are asked to do little more than serve as witnesses to the baptism, to the other end of the scale where sponsors would be in a position of some kind to provide spiritual training for the child, should the parents be unable to do that.  If the situation is the latter, it would helpful to inform the parents that the situation could arise that the child would receive spiritual training in the sponsor’s church and not theirs.  I would seek clarification on what is being asked of sponsors.