Confirmation

2024 Confirmation Class

The  Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has said: “ Confirmation ministry is a pastoral and education ministry of the church which helps the baptized person through Word and Sacrament to identify more deeply with the Christian community and participate more fully in its mission”

Confirmation classes is a  two-year program, including instruction in Bible, the Small Catechism, prayer, service, and faith practice. Also, participation in a week-long Confirmation Camp over the summer in June with other classes around the Lower Susquehanna synod at the Lutheran camp, Camp Nawakwa.  At the conclusion of the two-year course, confirmands will be asked to Affirm their Baptism in the context of Sunday worship.

What is ‘confirmation’ anyway? It’s not becoming a church member. We are already a member of Christ’s Body, the Church, by the gift of baptism. It is also not a separate sacrament in our tradition.  It is affirming your baptism  and teaching you how your faith can be active in your daily life. Teaching about the promises God has made with each one of us and how we can depend on those promises during our lives.  
It is part of the lifelong journey of faith we embark on as Christians, and specifically  Lutheran Christians. Learning how we can trust in those promises from God and that God is with you along the way, each step of the way.

Confirmation is not the end, nor the beginning, rather it is a tool that helps us along our life-long adventure of living out our Christian faith. Helping to teach us ways to grow our faith and be active in the different ministries of the church both here and the broader church.

Some of our confirmands and Pastor Matt spent the week of June 9th-14, 2024 at All Saints Confirmation Camp. Time was spent discussing, learning and growing in their faith at Camp Nawakwa along with other young people going through Confirmation. We discussed the theme of Love and Hate and what that means for us as people of the resurrection and grace that can be found in between.    They will be sharing on Sunday June 30th about their experience during the morning worship service. If you see them, ask them how the Confirmation Camp went. We give thanks to God for these young people’s witness to the good news of the gospel!”

Attending Camp with Pastor Matt were Annabelle Gentzler, Aleiah Gentzler and Julia Tackett