Confirmation classes are offered each year to all our youth from 8th grade on up.
Classes meet from 6:00-7:30 on Sunday evenings from September through April. These classes are designed to help our youth make a choice about giving their lives to Christ and becoming a member of His Church. Youth will learn about basic Christian beliefs, visit other churches, spend time together on a retreat, and use the Bible combined with reason, experience, and tradition to determine what they believe about Jesus and His Church. Each youth is also paired with an adult who serves as his or her mentor during this important and formative time. Youth who haven’t been baptized as infants will be baptized at confirmation if they so choose.
Youth ministries at Lovely Lane UMC range from 6th Grade to 12th grade. Sunday mornings at 9:00 am we have a class for Mid High and High School ages. The lessons are hands-on learning, sometimes in the kitchen cooking and tasting, and sometimes behind the video camera giving a modern spin to an old, old story.
Wednesday nights we feature a meal for all youth, children, and parents at 5:30 pm and then offer Youth group for both Middle and High Schoolers at 6:00 pm. We always have a game and a time to share prayers, usually with a program that inspires a lot of discussion!
Our youth groups participate in service projects and fundraisers, and every summer and during Spring Break we take mission and adventure trips. We’ve been to Minnesota, Missouri, South Dakota, Louisiana, and Colorado so far! (Download, print, sign and return to the church the Mission Trip/Travel Parental Consent Form if your child is planning to participate).
For Kennedy High School students, we also sponsor Lovely Lane Lunch every Tuesday at noon in our Fellowship Hall. You don’t have to be a member of the church to attend. If you are a freshman or sophomore, you will need to turn your parents’ written consent form in at the Kennedy HS office. Everybody’s welcome! (Download the Lovely Lane Lunch consent form.)