On Sunday February 13th our confirmands and mentors gathered with our own Ryan Taylor to discuss the benefits and perils of social networking. Ryan has been working in the social media world as a software engineer, and is our local expert! He is also the developer of our wonderful website. The teens had a chance to [...]
Our confirmands returned from their work at the soup kitchen to share a message with the little ones in worship. They talked about prayer, and related it to the classic shape of the pretzel…which looks the arms folded over the heart in prayer. Nice job, everyone!
On Saturday January 29, 2011 our 8th grade confirmands had the opportunity to prepare and serve a meal at the Gettysburg Soup Kitchen. The menu was chicken tenders with mac and cheese. Good hands on experience in the kitchen, and good experience in serving our neighbors. The girls led the prayer with the guests at [...]
On Sunday Jan 23 our Confirmands began a two-part study of the humanity and divinity of Jesus. They studied scriptures that showed the human side of Jesus, like Matthew 21: 18 (Jesus was hungry). They were tasked with illustrating a passage of the selected scriptures. Their illustrations will then be placed on the “Tree of [...]
The confirmands continued with their discussion of God’s creation by participating in a collage activity about how they can work to keep God’s garden green. They participated in “The Green Tree” game where each confirmand slected a “conservation quote” card, read the quote aloud and asked another confirmand to give an example of how the [...]
Our confirmands continued their mural project, which will then provide the basis for continued illustration of the next several lessons.
Our Confirmation class is studying the two different stories of creation in Genesis. They are illustrating the similarities and differences through creating two different murals. When finished they will hang in the Sunday School hallway…check it out!
December 9: Confirmands, please note 1. We will be serving at the soup kitchen January 29th, 2011. We will also be cooking the food so be thinking about the menu. You will have time to discuss this with Pastor Donna on Sunday. 2. On Sunday, Dec 12th we will be working on session 7 in [...]
On Saturday December 4th, some of our confirmands were able to attend the confirmation event at Lancaster Seminary. I don’t know how much we learned about seminary education, but we did laugh a lot! We also took advantage of the time for a quick stop at Park City Mall…we definitely learned something there…namely that those [...]
This past Sunday we finished up the history of Christianity. The donuts helped a lot!