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Quote by: rez  What were the topics and what the hell did you learn? Why was there
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This was a confirmation program for the St. James Church.
We meet weekly. The program always uses former students so to speak as guides to assist. We divide the kids up and each week they get a new pair of youth minister guides.
Each group can vary between a lesson from the bible or a group talk about a current issue and how if affects their faith.
Another group focused on the confirmation name, the students would choose their own name and had to write a response as to why they choose it. Obviously popular names are major saints or gospel writers.
Another part was questioners. Asking students what would they do. We submitted the questions after the meeting. The goal is to identify those who really don't want to be there, in which case the program leader would one on one talk with them. We didn't want people doing just just because they felt they had too. We didn't have any my year doing this, but she has had students who don't go through with the program by choice, her job then becomes an offer to talk to the parents about it who are probably the most stubborn about the process.
I'd call those occasional examples peer pressure coming from the parents but I didn't see any of it my year doing this. Thinking up a name and walking the aisle seemed a big point of pride for everyone.
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large groups of kids? Why is that needed?
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It's a large group because my year helping was over 80 students? It makes sense to do smaller groups and break up with new guides each week.