What is Confirmation? Is it something that young people feel they have to do, like a rite of passage or a means to graduate from Sunday School? The hope is to make the confirmation experience an exploration of faith and time of learning about the United Church.
This challenge of seeing confirmation as a stepping stone along the way of transforming belief into meaningful life-long action is not something that only happens in your teenage years. It is much too exciting a process for that! It is something which we can all engage and re-engage with, at many points in our lives.
Imagine a place where everyone can renew their faith commitments at various points in the life-long journey of spiritual exploration. This is what we are trying to do at Beach. It can be done formally, for example, when you transfer your membership from one United Church to another, but it is also part of the reason we gather together to worship God. Each Sunday, or Saturday afternoon, in church or on the beach; we have the opportunity to question and shape what we believe.
These are all opportunities to dig around in the stuff of our faith and that’s exactly what the group of young people being confirmed this Sunday have been doing. Come and listen to what they have to say about what they believe, at this point in their lives. It has been inspiring and energizing for both myself and the group of mentors who have been sharing in this stage of their journey.
Blessings,
Karen
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