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Lisa Kimball Terri Martinson Elton Virginia Theological Seminary Luther Seminary Re-Imagining Youth Confirmation

Who’s in the room? ✴ Practitioner? ✴ Teaching in religious education? ✴ Working with confirmation? ✴ Denominations?

The Project ✴ Lilly Endowment Foundation Inc. Grant ( ) ✴ 5 Denominations: ✴ ELCA, PC(USA), AME, UMC, Episcopal ✴

Research Question What is the state of confirmation and equivalent practices within five denominations that practice infant baptism?

Research Design Mixed Methods: Quantitative: Survey ✴ Population Sample ✴ , Online Qualitative: Portraiture ✴ Site visits: 20 congregations and 5 camps

Three Shifts ✴ Purpose ✴ Pedagogy ✴ Context

Purpose ✴ Doctrine and rite to adaptive practice meeting spiritual hunger. ✴ Equipping for church membership and denominational loyalty to lifelong journeys as followers of Jesus.

✴ Traditional, didactic instruction to resource-rich learning environment. ✴ Cognitive learning about Christianity to engaged, holistic and transformative learning about the Christian life. Pedagog y

Context ✴ Siloed ministry/event to process owned by congregations and connected to the wider church/communit y. ✴ Dynamic ecology.

Discussion ✴ How is confirmation meeting the spiritual hungers of the youth? ✴ In what ways is confirmation ministry crafting a vibrant learning community? ✴ How is confirmation ministry embodied in your setting?

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