In case you missed it on our social media channels, we’re sharing the data relating to the purpose of confirmation and equivalent practices. Here’s Part 3, relating to leaders’ perception. You can also find this on Facebook at www.facebook.com/confirmationproject and Twitter at www.twitter.com/confirmproject. Leaders emphasize THEOLOGY/DOCTRINE: When leaders were asked, “How important is it to […]

In case you missed it on our social media channels, we’ve begun sharing the data relating to the purpose of confirmation and equivalent practices. You can find last week’s Part 1 on youth perception of the purpose of confirmation here. Here’s Part 2, relating to parents’ perception. You can also find this on Facebook at […]

In case you missed it on our social media channels, we’re beginning to delve into the data relating to the purpose of confirmation and equivalent practices. Here’s part 1, relating to youth’s perception of confirmation. You can also find this on Facebook at www.facebook.com/confirmationproject and Twitter at www.twitter.com/confirmproject. Youth emphasize RELEVANCE: Youth showed much less […]

The key findings from The Confirmation Project are finally taking shape! Ministry professionals in three different locations spread across the country were among the first to hear the newest information from the project. Terri Elton and Jacob Sorenson presented to a group of 100 ELCA youth ministry professionals at the Youth Ministry Extravaganza in Louisville, […]

In the fall of 2016 Princeton Theological Seminary held a course called “Confirmation: Contemporary Research and Innovative Practices.” This course invited students to engage research findings from The Confirmation Project and consider the implications for confirmation ministry in congregations. During this course we invited four guest speakers to speak about specific dimensions of this research. […]

The last few months have been exciting times for the Confirmation Project! We are now at the point of our research where we are starting to really dig into the data that we have been collecting through the last couple of years. While an extremely exciting time, it is also a daunting task. We have survey […]

This week we are sharing a new portrait of a unique confirmation situation. River of Hope Lutheran Church is a mission start, but the congregation members are long-term ELCA members, which is quite different than many mission start churches. They are grounded in their understanding of Lutheran theology, but decided to start a new church in a […]

This week we are sharing two new portraits of unique confirmation situations. One portrait is of a Presbyterian church using a flipped classroom methodology to engage youth in an overcommitted world. The other portrait features a confirmation class from a multi-cultural Episcopal church that participates in a General Confirmation Service put on by the Diocese of California […]

Are you frustrated by Confirmation Sunday? Do you find yourself worrying about whether your students are genuine when they confess their faith? Paul Koch’s article “The Miracle of Confirmation Sunday” in The Cresset offers a hope-filled perspective about these common worries. You can read the article at The Cresset’s website, here.

This week we are sharing two new portraits, one is a collaboration between two United Methodist pastors and the other is a program that integrates a confirmation equivalent practice into an AME context. Two United Methodist Church pastors in California were frustrated with attendance and retention problems in their confirmation ministry programs, so they turned to […]