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 experience slips. We ask them to worship at each of our 3 services once throughout the year. The options available at Good Shepherd are the 9:00am service at our Madison Campus, and the 10:00am and 6:00pm services at our Verona Campus.
Upcoming Events
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Shape Us Like Jesus
We live a world divided
In so many ways
Along so many lines
In and out
Have and Have not
Right and left
We depart into a world
Full of false choices
Division for the sake
Of being divisive.
Creating the US
Only so you can point at a Them.
Let us participate in division
Only in as much it is
Shapes us like Jesus
Truth offered with invitation
Justice anchored in liberation
Anger yoked to compassion
And grief infused with grace and peace.
Our holy longings may indeed leave us lonely
Faithfulness may feel like fracture
But take heart,
For in the mystery of God
New mercies will arrive each morning.
And the one who holds it all together,
Holds you too.
Director of Youth Ministry
Have a question?
If you'd like to know more about this ministry area, please contact Sarah Iverson at siverson@gslcwi.com