Pastor: Invite all the mentors (also known as Friends in Faith) to gather with their student around the altar in pairs. Pastor: (Addressing the parents, students, and congregation) "Will you, parents, as well as members of this congregation, continue to support these young people and their friends in faith by prayer and faithful examples, and will you continue to help these young people grow in their knowledge and love of God?"

You are beginning a confirmation process that will lean more heavily on your personal faith experience and your relationship with another Christian than it does on textbooks, classrooms and other traditional approaches to education.

We hope that your preparations to celebrate once again the birth of the Christ child will include the gathering of your Friends in Faith small group. we will reviewe our own worship practices as Lutherans, and then invite you and your friend in faith to visit 2 other worship services: one Roman Catholic mass, and one other non-Lutheran service of your choice.

We thank all of our adult friends in faith for your willingness to be a mentor for these young people during their high school years. All recent studies of how best to hand on the faith to the next generation emphasize the crucial role adult mentors play in helping our young people figure out how to be faithful in a very complex world.

Our Friends in Faith program is up and running again! What? You’ve never heard of such a thing? And if you have, you thought it always started in the spring! We’re glad you asked. In addition to walking up to someone on Sunday morning and asking them to explain why they were a friend in faith, we thought it might be helpful to share a few of the highlights of our program.

After the Pastor and families of 9th grades have discussed and outlined the Friends in Faith program, a letter like this could be sent to the parents to recap what was brought up at the meetings and any date changes that may have come up.

An example of a six week guide for Lenten Mentors and youth. Each week has it's own theme and included are questions that can be used during each week, as well as a closing prayer.