Confirmation

We are made members of the Church in holy baptism. If we are baptized soon after we are born, when we are not able to answer for ourselves, then our caregivers make promises to nurture us in the Christian faith, helping us as we grow to live in the covenant of baptism and in communion with the church.

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Confirmation ministry is for those in our congregation who are growing from childhood into adulthood. God has already said yes to them in Holy Baptism;

at confirmation, they say yes to God in the presence of the assembly.

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At MPLC, anyone becomes eligible to begin participating in confirmation ministry when they enter sixth grade. For three years, confirmands practice the Christian faith intentionally—through their worship, through their walk with Christ, through their witness to others, through their participation in Wednesday evening instruction, and through a week spent at Confirmation Camp in the summer.

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When confirmands have completed three years of intentional faith practice with the confirmation ministry, they are invited to continue in the covenant that
God made with them in holy baptism and to affirm their baptism in the presence of the assembly. Traditionally this happens as part of our worship service on Reformation Day, the last Sunday in October, during their first year of high school.