Just in case you missed it on our social media channels, we’ve returned to an exploration of findings from our qualitative research! A few months ago, we discussed our qualitative research key learnings, along with four dimensions that surfaced regarding the design, leadership, ecology, and curriculum of confirmation. Now, we’ve turned our attention to nine recurring […]
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Confirmation Topics: What Did Students Learn?
In case you missed it on our social media channels, we’re continuing our discussion of TOPICS in confirmation and related practices! In looking at what students reported actually learning in the followup survey, we found that student learning corresponded more closely with leader expectations on the initial survey than with their own. This suggests very […]
Confirmation Topics: Topic Emphasis
In case you missed it on our social media sites, we’ve been looking at topics covered in confirmation and related practices. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve explored the emphasis given to certain topics by the three groups surveyed: students, parents, and leaders. These topics include The Lord’s Prayer, Sacraments, and The Place of […]
Confirmation Topics: What Are the Most and Least Important Ones?
In case you missed it on our social media sites, over the next couple of weeks, we are going to turn our attention to the topics covered in confirmation and related practices. In our research, we asked students, parents and leaders about how important they considered 25 different topics. Our findings show that there was […]
Confirmation Curriculum: What We Found During Our Qualitative Research
Last week on our social media channels, we posted details of what we discovered about curriculum, one of the four dimensions of confirmation (and related practices) that surfaced in the key learnings of our qualitative research. We share those details here, along with a portrait of Trinity Lutheran Church in Owatonna, Minnesota and their 3-year multi-faceted confirmation program combining […]
Confirmation Ecology: What We Found During Our Qualitative Research
Last week on our social media channels, we posted the details of what we discovered about ecology, one of the four dimensions of confirmation (and related practices) that surfaced in the key learnings of our qualitative research. We share those details here, along with a portrait of Peace Lutheran Church in Tacoma, WA and their Feet to Faith Confirmation […]
Confirmation Leadership: What We Found During Our Qualitative Research
Last week on our social media channels, we posted the details of what we discovered about leadership, one of the four dimensions of confirmation (and related practices) that surfaced in the key learnings of our qualitative research. We share those details here, along with a portrait of the Foundation for Christian Formation (FCF) and their weekend Confirm retreats, illustrating the […]
Qualitative Research Key Learnings, Including a Basic and Hopeful Discovery!
We’re excited to share with you the key learnings from The Confirmation Project’s qualitative research! The most basic, and hopeful, discovery was that youth confirmation (and equivalent practices) matters and is thriving and resilient in a wide range of settings across the church! This is particularly good news for the denominations in this project as each […]
Greetings from our research team!
We gathered at the end of February to comb through our findings and we are beginning to see some exciting trends emerge. The good news is that there are some strong, creative, traditional, innovative, and plenty of “non-conforming” confirmation ministries from which all of us can learn. The congregations in our study are facing many […]
Delving into The Confirmation Project’s Qualitative Research: Executive Summary
We’re beginning to delve into the findings from The Confirmation Project’s qualitative research. We’ll begin by sharing the executive summary from that research. We hope it will pique your interest and that you’ll stay tuned for further posts on these findings! Executive Summary Twenty-four ministries were studied as part of the qualitative research for The Confirmation Project, […]