Cultivating Teen Faith: Insights from the Confirmation Project
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Cultivating Teen Faith: Insights from the Confirmation Project  -     Edited By: Richard R. Osmer, Katherine M. Douglass
    By: Edited by Richard R. Osmer & Katherine M. Douglass

Cultivating Teen Faith: Insights from the Confirmation Project

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 2018 / Paperback

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Many churches that practice infant baptism offer confirmation, or its equivalent, when children reach adolescence and enter into a new phase of spiritual growth. But which programs actually work? Twelve authors carefully summarize and evaluate the findings of a 3-year study of more than 3,000 congregations in five denominations. 208 pages, softcover. Eerdmans.

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Title: Cultivating Teen Faith: Insights from the Confirmation Project
By: Edited by Richard R. Osmer & Katherine M. Douglass
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 208
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2018
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 12 ounces
ISBN: 0802876609
ISBN-13: 9780802876607
Stock No: WW876607

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What are churches doing to form the faith of their young people? Many church denominations that practice infant baptism offer confirmation or an equivalent ministry when children reach adolescence and enter a new phase of spiritual growth—but all churches, regardless of tradition, wrestle with how to get young adults to actively join the church. What really works? 

In this book twelve authors draw on a three-year study of more than three thousand US congregations across five denominations—United Methodist Church, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and Presbyterian Church (USA)—to answer this pressing question. They tell stories of excellent and innovative confirmation programs that work and that show, above all, what good discipleship with young people looks like. Youth pastors, church leaders, and parents alike will benefit from the practices and new ways of teaching presented here that have proven helpful in forming and enhancing the faith of youth. 

Contributors: Joy L. Arroyo, Reginald Blount, Kenda Creasy Dean, Katherine M. Douglass, Terri Martinson Elton, Lisa Kimball, Gordon S. Mikoski, Kermit Moss, Richard R. Osmer, Kate Harmon Siberine, Jacob Sorenson, Kate O. Unruh.

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Richard R. Osmer is the Ralph B. and Helen S. Ashenfelter Professor of Mission and Evangelism at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Katherine M. Douglass is assistant professor of Christian ministry at Seattle Pacific Seminary, an ordained minister in the PCUSA, and director of the Confirmation Project at Princeton Theological Seminary.

Editorial Reviews

Todd Buegler
— senior pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Owatonna, Minnesota
executive director of ELCA Youth Ministry Network
"Confirmation ministry has long been taken for granted and has remained largely unchanged for decades. This volume presents the first significant cross-denominational study of confirmation, revealing the diversity of current methods and connecting the research to congregational best practices for effective faith formation."

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