About Confirmation at Concordia

Parents play the most important role in the faith development of children. Parents bring them to worship, pray with them at home, model Christian living, regularly answer questions about life following Jesus. Confirmation is how the church comes alongside parents as they raise children in the Christian faith. Concordia provides a process of helping youth in 6th to 9th grades deepen and grow in their identity as baptized children of God. It concludes in the 9th grade year with a rite of commitment and blessing.

Along the way, our youth will grow in learning the basics of Christian faith, based on the Bible and on Martin Luther’s Small Catechism. In the Small Catechism, Luther presents the basics of faith in question-and-answer form. These basics give a basic framework, or skeleton, on which the whole body of Christian faith is built: The Ten Commandments, the Apostle’s Creed, Baptism, the Lord’s Supper, the Lord’s Prayer, and Confession and Forgiveness.

Students in confirmation also will be engaged in building Christian community. In small groups, they are encouraged to ask further questions, reflect on what they’re learning, and make new friends.

Putting faith into practice through serving is also part of the confirmation process. Youth will be given opportunities to serve, both in the church and in the community.

The goal of Confirmation is for the church to help form youth whose faith in Christ is alive and growing, who enjoy being in the Christian community, and who are discovering the joys and struggles of serving our neighbors in the name of Jesus.