Confirmation Class 2015

 

The Confirmation Class of 2015 

L to R Sean Hickey, Jamie Horman, Matt Wagner, Grant Archer,

Marco Trillo, Emily Rios, Kayla Martinez, Gabriel Martinez,

Franco Urra-Morffiz, Robert Gray

On Sunday, April 19, 2015 we confirmed another fantastic group confirmation class.

Confirmation is one of my favorite things to teach as the Director of Student Ministries. Of course, I have a wonderful team of teachers who work with me including Andrew and Jen Sheehy and April Lewis. The class meets on Sunday mornings and includes one of the worship services. This has been a great strategy because it allows the youth to experience both the traditional and the contemporary services our church offers. They see the similarities and the differences as we gather as a community to worship God. They also get to meet people from these services and participate serving communion or being acolyte or crucifer.
The curriculum is the entire gospel of Mark. Along the way, a lot of great questions are asked and insights are revealed about Jesus Christ. We also include two sessions on the history of the Methodist church,the Wesley Quadrilateral and the sacraments of the church.

The Ropes Course at Warren Willis Confirmation Retreat

 

The class meets eight to ten times over 3 months and includes a retreat to Warren Willis United Methodist Youth Camp to join 350 other youth also going through confirmation. Several of our youth have been inspired to go to summer camp at Warren Willis after visiting the camp during confirmation.

Each confirmand is sponsored by a member of the church, who prays for them, writes them encouraging notes and cards, and provides them with a fun basket of goodies for the retreat. We had a great group of sponsors this year. 

 

Confirmand                               Sponsor          

Grant Archer                              April Lewis

Sean Hickey                              Angela Kim

Jamie Horman                           Robert Gray

Gabriel Martinez                        Joe Banos

Kayla Martinez                           Mirta Banos

Marco Trillo                               Andrew Sheehy

Emily Rios                                Kimberley Rios 

Franco Urra-Morffiz                   Kay Brezina                              

Matt Wagner                             Kathy Howard

Pastor Dur sees confirmation as one of the most important spiritual processes of the church. He likes to bring each confirmand up individually to kneel and to be confirmed. Then he prays with them and their parents and sponsor.

 Pastor Dur Confirms and Prays over Gabriel Martinez

with his parents and Sponsor, Joe Banos

Confirmands officially join the church as full members upon being confirmed. Franco Urra-Morffiz understood this as he checked the “Member of the Church” box on the attendance form during his confirmation service. He wrote a smiley face and the words, “I am now!” Welcome, Franco, and all your classmates of this year’s terrific confirmation class!
 

April Lewis, Andrew Sheehy, Jen Sheehy - My teaching team

 

Confirmation Class at 9:30am Service