Grace Lutheran Church & School

Download the 2010-11 Confirmation Handbook and Calendar.

At Grace, children in grades 6, 7, and 8 participate in a three-year Confirmation program that includes catechesis, community life, and service. Through reflection on the Bible and Martin Luther’s Small Catechism, students explore their Christian and specifically Lutheran identity as they prepare for the rite of Affirmation of Baptism, which takes place in a worship service on the first Sunday of May at the end of the eighth-grade year.

During Confirmation, students participate in group and individual activities that seek to nurture their relationships with Christ and the people of God. During Confirmation instruction children learn to identify more deeply with the Christian community and participate more fully in the mission of the Church.

The Grace Confirmation program uses the curriculum "Here We Stand," published by Augsburg Fortress. The entire curriculum is online.

All children, grades 6 to 8, attend Sunday morning classes from 9:45 to 10:45.
Children in grades 7 and 8 attend a Wednesday evening class once a month.
A one-week daytime summer intensive program takes place in June, at the beginning of the school summer vacation.
Service projects, homework, and social events are all part of Confirmation.
Eighth-graders participate in a Witness Service prior to Confirmation Sunday.
Eighth-grade confirmands are assigned a mentor, an adult member of the congregation who participates in Confirmation activities with the child and stays in contact during the high school years.

Confirmation instructors include Grace's pastors, the interim religious education coordinator, teachers from Grace School, and additional instructors from the congregation.

For more information about Confirmation classes, contact Grace.

Gracious Lord, through water and the Spirit you have made these young men and women your own. You forgave them all their sins and brought them to newness of life. Continue to strengthen them with the Holy Spirit, and daily increase in them your gifts of grace: the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord, the spirit of joy in your presence; through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen

Preparing for the

Affirmation of Baptism