2020-2021 Confirmation Materials

 Friends in Christ, We are excited and nervous about this online learning journey together. We welcome your feedback- about what you enjoy and what is challenging. Each lesson will be housed here in this Blog. The blog will have a page for each lesson, including a video, discussion questions, and a link to the reporting form. We know that online learning will not take as long as our in person classes. The video lessons by the Pastors will be no more than 10-15 minutes. We anticipate you will need to spend about 30 minutes total for each online lesson session. Each lesson will be divided into sections. Intro  will help you get involved in the story of the day. The intro may have a discussion question, a Bible verse to read, or a section to read from the Manna and Mercy book. Video Lesson will be by the pastors. We will use the videos to teach about the lesson in a fun, engaging way.  Discussion Questions  will be on the blog page. Students are asked to answer the discussion questions wi

Confirmation Lesson: Beginnings  Intro This story is about God creating the world! 1. Discuss with your parent: What are some things you remember or assume to be true about the creation story? 2. Read pages 1-3 in your Manna and Mercy  book. (Here is a link to the pages, if you do not have your book at home with you) Link to Manna & Mercy pg 1-3 Video Lesson Watch this video: (Here is the link in case the embedded one doesn't work) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-UuN2pUeTo Discuss Answer the following questions as a family: 1. What is something you see in creation that is "Very Tov" (aka Very good)? 2. Name some things you see that are broken in the world. What are some ways people try to make themselves 'Big Deals'? 3. God decided not to use force to make people behave. God didn't want to follow the "Big deal/Little deal" pattern people were using. God wanted humans as partners, not groveling subjects. Is this different than how you have imagi