Basic Information
Students are invited to begin confirmation in the fall of their 7th grade year and students continue for three years until the spring of their 9th grade year when the students participate in the "Affirmation of Baptism."
Students are divided into small groups of roughly 6-8 students of the same gender for small group time each week.
Confirmation Schedules
"Normal" Wednesday Night Schedule
- 7:00 p.m. - Large Group (in Great Hall)
- 7:40 p.m. - Small Groups
- 8:30 p.m. - End
Lent Wednesday Night Schedule (on Feb. 25, Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25, & Apr. 1 2009)
- 6:45 p.m. - Students arrive with parents or meet with their groups.
- 7:00 p.m. - Lenten Worship (In the Worship Center)
- 8:00 p.m. - Small Groups
- 8:30 p.m. - End
About Confirmation
Confirmation ministry at RLC is a time for 7th, 8th and 9th grade students to explore their faith and their relationship to God in Jesus Christ. Through music, large-group worship, messages and small group discussion and service students explore the basic Christian beliefs that the Lutheran Church confesses.
Confirmation is...
- rooted in Christian baptism. It is commonly called Affirmation of Baptism.
- a process of learning and growth in faith in Jesus Christ.
- a ministry shared by parents, pastors, small group leaders, the students and the congregation as a whole.
- a journey and a milestone in the faith life of Lutheran Christians. Confirmation is not the ending of a student's life in the congregation, but it is the beginning.
- a time of personal confession for students where they grow to the point of publicly professing their faith in Jesus Christ. As an "affirmation of Baptism," it is a time for students affirm their belief in Jesus.
- one of the ways that a person becomes a member of a Lutheran congregation.
