Confirmation
At Vermont Lutheran Church we offer a two-year Confirmation program to baptized children and youth in grades 7th-8th or anyone older not confirmed with Pastor approval. Children in 6th grade can request to be admitted to the program early if they are unable to complete the attendance requirement within the two-year program and require an additional year to complete this requirement.
Confirmation meets twice a month following the church service from 10:45 am to noon during the school year. This is convenient and fun for the families to attend church service and then enjoy hospitality at the church while the Confirmands are in class. Confirmands also participate in a Lenten program, acolyte duties, and engage in mission projects at the church.
We use a lively curriculum in which Confirmands study the Bible and Luther’s Small Catechism by listening, drawing, and free-style writing to illustrate what they have learned. We acknowledge that a student’s family is the birthplace of their child’s spiritual education and we support families engaging in their Confirmand’s continued development.
Confirmation is led by Rev. Rebecca Clancy and Seminarian Jill Dybdahl.
Confirmation, the affirmation of baptism, asks Confirmands to make this promise for themselves: “…to live among God’s faithful people, to hear the word of God and share in the Lord’s Supper, to proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed, to serve all people, following the example of Jesus, and to strive for justice and peace in all the earth.” Confirmation affirms these promises to prepare confirmands to make those promises, affirm their baptisms and continue to live out their faith in the church.
Confirmation is a public rite of the church preceded by a period of instruction designed to help baptized Christians identify with the life and mission of the Christian community. [It] provides opportunity for the individual Christian, relying on God’s promises given in Holy Baptism, to make a personal public confession of the faith . . .