Confirmation Class

The confirmation class resumed last night, this was the first Wednesday after Labor Day. The Church of Peace was a German language congregation when it was first organized in 1895. At that time the denomination was called "German Evangelical" or Deutches Evangelische, and being part of the Lutheran family of churches, has taken confirmation pretty seriously since its beginning.

The class meets weekly during the school year for a two year period. I worked through the class schedule for this 2008-2009 year and there are twenty-seven class meetings! That means a youth should attend over fifty class meetings as part of their experience.

This year the major topics are the Bible and the History of the Church. The alternate year is the Mission of the Church and we talk about faith. One of the wonderful elements of the two year class taught by the pastor is that I get to know youth in the church pretty well. That is a privilege.

This church has kept careful records of those who have been confirmed here. When we had our 100 year anniversary we compiled the names of those who had been confirmed in this community of faith and published a booklet. There are some 1400 names. The names are listed both chronologically and alphabetically, so this booklet would be a help to those doing genealogical research.

Here is a photo of Courtney and Michael who were confirmed on Palm Sunday 2006.