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Confirmation is Sunday, April 27, 2008, at 11:00 a.m.
Confirmation at Our Savior's Lutheran Church begins in the fall of the 7th grade year and the students confirm their faith in the spring of their 9th grade year. We start class in September meeting 6:45 pm in Bethany Hall for brief worship, large group instruction and small group discussion ending 8:00 pm.
We use the exciting new curriculum from Augsburg fortress Here We Stand. Each student also receives The Lutheran Handbook. If you don’t have one
you must get a copy! It is a very well done guide for how to live out Lutheran/Christian faith in today’s world. You can learn more about it at: www.herewestandconfirmation.org.
Each student is required to be in class and worship with their family on Sunday Morning. There will be assignments of memory work and take home sheets. Each student must attend one of the following youth events. Jr-High Synod Youth Gathering, the Revolve Tour, 30 hour Famine, or the Sr. High Synod youth gathering (9th graders). The following are the requirements per age group:
Sixth Grade: These students will be asked to help acolyte on Sunday Mornings. They have so much enthusiasm to help in the Church and this would help the program out a lot. Once ninth graders are confirmed they are not expected to acolyte. This places a huge amount of work on the seventh graders to acolyte during the month of May and all through the summer months.
Seventh Grade: Requirements: 20 Worship Note Points*
Two Individual Service Projects
Acolyte in Worship
Individual Service Project
Help a neighbor
Change the Church Sign for three months
Write a newsletter article for three months
Make a banner
Write a politician
Provide Nursery service during choir practice for three months
Adopt a Grandparent
Hunger Lock-in to raise funds for world hunger
Work at Soup Kitchen
Adopt a Highway
Others as approved by Pastors
Eighth Grade:
Requirements: 20 Worship Note Points*
Two Worship Service Participation**
Acolyte in Worship.
Ninth Grade:
Requirements: 15 Worship Note Points*
Three Worship Service Participations**
Worship Notes taken on Sunday will be due the following Wednesday. Worship notes will be taken while in worship.
No late notes will be accepted.
- The following point values will be awarded:
- check plus: 1.25
- check: 1.00
- check minus: 0.00
** Worship Service Participation: The point is to get our young people involved in worship, so that after they are confirmed they will continue to see worship as a valuable experience in which they can serve and be served. They must chose one service participation from Group A and one from Group B. Items in Group B can be done as individuals or as a group of two or three. If two or three participate together in an item in Group B, they must do as many items as there are people in their small group. This participation must be completed by May 31st.
Group A Group B
Usher Perform a skit during worship
Nursery Write / pray prayers during worship
Special Music
Children’s moment
Lector
Run Power Point for a month
Forms for Parents to print or download:
Parents Review of Individual Service Project (word document)
Report of Worship Participation (word document)
2007-2008 Confirmation Calendar (PDF document)