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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 […]

This week we are sharing two portraits, both of which hold high expectations for confirmands — but that is almost the only thing they have in common. In close proximity to Southern Methodist University, Union, a coffee house ministry in Dallas, Texas, reaches out to college age young adults. They invite young people to commit […]

Join us this Friday, May 13th, 1pm EST to learn from Kate Siberine about mentoring. As people of the incarnation, we learn to claim our discipleship by watching those who came before us claim theirs. This webinar will explore the theological and developmental need for intergenerational mentoring in youth confirmation and will offer some best […]

The two portraits that we are sharing this April have allowed their contextual reality to shape their confirmation program in meaningful ways. The intimate community of Peace Lutheran Church, where each youth and their home life is known by the pastor differs vastly from the Church of the Resurrection – whose confirmation class had over […]

Our own Katie Douglass, director of the Confirmation Project, joined the podcast What(ever) is True? to discuss the statement “Confirmation is no longer an effective form of Christian formation and should be replaced.” We are pleased to co-release this podcast with the What(ever) is True? team.   You can listen to the entire episode today on the […]