MIDDLE SCHOOL MINISTRY AT GOOD SHEPHERD
Confirmation at Good Shepherd (we call it AMPED)
AMPED is a relationally based three year confirmation program for 6th-8th grade students. Through a combination of large group and small group time, students practice Christian community, engage with sacred stories, and discover how our faith interacts meaningfully with the world around us.
We help young people develop their spirituality within our Lutheran tradition as well as engage in the work of public theology. Both of these arms of our faith are important as we navigate living out our faith in a changing world.
At the end of their 3rd year, 8th grade students have the opportunity, if they choose, to affirm their baptismal promises through our Affirmation of Baptism, and continuing their spiritual journey.
Other AMPED Components
Part of AMPED confirmation is being in worship and service with our church community. We ask our young people to share with us about 12 of those experiences throughout they year by filling out worship notes and service experiece slips. We ask them to worship at each of our 3 services once throughout the year.
AMPED Guide Training
Wednesday, September 11 all Amped guides and staff will gather at the Verona Campus at 6:00 for conversation and fellowship as we prepare for another year of learning, serving and growing with our Middle School Students.
AMPED Family Night September 18th
All 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students, and their parents, will gather on Wednesday September 18th at 6:15 at the Verona Campus to begin the AMPED year. You will receive caledars, information, meet your guide, and more. See you there!
Pine Lake Summer Camp
Good Shepherd youth spend a week at Pine Lake Camp in Waupaca each summer. Camp is great opportunity youth to spend a fun week in community. Playing, camping, hiking, eating, laughing - it is an experience of spriitual renewal and sacred stretching! Registration info will come in December.
Daily Work, Daily Bread
We come from a week of work…
Toiling in the sun or at our keyboards.
Some of us are at work even now, here.
For we are told to working even on ourselves.
Everything by effort it seems.
Summer jobs, careers, retired - we have worked.
Occupation and vocation we have worked.
For a paycheck or prestige. – we have worked.
Even our vacations are a labor.
Everything by effort it seems.
It’s so much.
The work of God is this: to believe the one he has sent.
So come, let us worship the living God who sees us in our striving.
And offers us the job of receiving.
Our daily bead.
Upcoming Events
Director of Youth Ministry
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If you'd like to know more about this ministry area, please contact Sarah Iverson at [email protected]