Confirmation is rite of passage, but it is the beginning a more mature faith journey, not an end. Confirmation is not graduation.
Immanuel's confirmands have completed three years of intense study of the Ten Commandments, the Apostle's Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism, Holy Communion, and the Office of the Keys. Ensuring a clear understanding of Lutheran theology is vital for these students as they reach this culmination of their childhood faith training.
While faith is a gift from our merciful God, participating in the Rite of Confirmation is a choice to affirm the promises made for us during our baptism and to confirm our belief in the theology of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
Going forward, our confirmands will begin to face the realities of life in a more real sense as they grow older and take on new responsibilities. It is our prayer that the gift of faith and the choice of becoming a confirmed and participating member of Immanuel Lutheran Church will support them through these changes with compelling relational and Bible studies, a deeper prayer life,
a wide variety of opportunities to serve others, richer fellowship and friendships, and unlimited opportunities to praise our God.
This Saturday we welcome twenty-two confirmands as full participants in our family of faith at Immanuel. Please keep them in your prayers, that they may use their confirmation as the beginning of a deeper and wider relationship with our Lord and Savior.
