Confirmation Year

The Discipleship Program is a multi-faceted exposure to the opportunity to become a known and confessed follower of Jesus the Christ. Each person in the program follows a self-guided program with an adult mentor choosing tasks and studies in the following areas:

Worship and Spiritual Growth: Attending churches, outlining sermons, joining in worship leadership, evaluating worship materials, and providing creative worship resources are a few of the options in this area.
                                                                          

Study and Learning: In a tutorial mode with your mentor, you will study several modules on Church life, history, Bible, Sacraments and the like, on a schedule of meetings you set up between you. In discussion, sharing, reacting, and exploration you will seek to "grow in wisdom ... and in favor with God and others."
                                       
                                   

Service and Caring: Through projects in the church and the community you will take steps to be a change agent in areas needing changes. The Intervention in our world of God's Word in Jesus is the motivation for mission and social action by his church. In hands on tasks of caring you can choose to make a difference by visits, labor, self giving, and other actions.
                                  

Friendship and Fellowship: "Getting to Know You" is another task of the program as we seek to get to know the whole church, and the segment of the church that is meeting needs you feel in yourself. The Youth Fellowships, Choirs, and other groups in church provide an arena for peer support and even positive pressure among committed and covenanted Christians.

                                       



Each confirmand also meets with the other confirmands in their class to learn more together as a group.  Together the confirmands participate in retreats and other opportunities to explore faith and to discover more along their own faith journeys.  The confirmation program is for youth in 9th grade and older.  It begins in September and ends in June.

Upcoming Confirmation Schedule 2011-2012:
September 11, 2011        Sunday 5 pm           Informational Meeting 
September 26, 2011      Monday 7-9 pm        Confirmands, Mentors & Pastor     
 October 3, 2011           Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands &Pastor   (God)
October 17, 2011          Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor   (Jesus)
November 28, 2011       Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor   (Holy Spirit)      December 19, 2011       Monday  7-8:30pm    Confirmands &Pastor   (Bible)                   January 9, 2012           Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor  (Worship)                 January 27th-29th, 2012  CT Conference Confirmation Retreat at Silver Lake   
February 13, 2012        Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor  (History & UCC)
March 4, 2012   Sunday Afternoon trip to the Islam Center in Danbury 
March 5, 2012              Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor  (Sacraments)             March 26, 2012            Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor (World Religions)   April 9, 2012                Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor(Faith & Daily Life) 
April 22, 2012     Sunday Afternoon trip to the Buddhist Temple in Carmel, NY     
April 30, 2012              Monday 7-8:30pm    Confirmands & Pastor (What if???)     
May 2, 2012    Wednesday 6:30-8 pm  Confirmands meet with Deacons 
May 14, 2012                Monday 7-9pm       Confirmands, Mentors & Pastors Wrap Up
CONFIRMATION SUNDAY      Sunday, May 20, 2012 @ 10:30 am service

**We may also be taking class trips to places like the local synagogue, the Buddhist Faith Fellowship, and the Islamic Society.

*Note: There will be at least one mentor at each of the Monday night Confirmation Classes along with the Pastor to help lead, guide, and maintain Safe Church standards.

Confirmands & Mentors:
Julie DeLucia              Mary Gallagher-DeLucia
Shannon Downey        Jean Dorrell
Jillian Fisher               Sue Slater
Emma Gianoplus          Heidi Riddle
Madeline Honeyford     Heather Berner
Allegra Jordan            Melissa Timmerman
Peter Lazorchak         Michael Matson
Pamela Paduano         Olivia Quinsland
Victoria Scribner         Patty Moran

Summer Sermon Series: Confirmation Class 2008

Click here to see the whole Summer Sermon Series, along with the name of the 9th grade Confirmand who suggested the sermon title.