Tonight is Confirmation Orientation for 6th-8th grade students and their parents. I'm really looking forward to beginning another year of questions, stories and lots of laughter, and I think Wednesday night classes will be one of the ministries I miss most when on parental leave.
One of the ways I think about preparation for Affirmation of Baptism (Confirmation) is that it's a partnership between the congregation and domestic church, aka the family. Please pray for our students and their families as we dig in again, that parents will remember all those promises they made at their child's baptism, and realize that they truly are the primary teachers of faith for their kids.
I can talk all I want about the importance and amazing gift of prayer, but if families never pray together, and kids/youth don't see/hear their parents pray, the chances of them growing a strong prayer life are slim.
I can talk all I want about stewardship and the blessings of generosity, but if families are not generous with each other and the world, kids/youth will not learn the joy of sharing who they are and what they have.
You get the idea.
Let's pray!
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