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Youth Confirmation Sunday

altJoin us as we celebrate this year's Confirmation Class! 

Confirmation marks the point in the Christian journey at which you affirm for yourself the faith into which you have been baptized and your intention to live a life of committed discipleship. The Church also asks God to give you power through the Holy Spirit to enable you to live in the way of Jesus.

This will be a journey of faith for our youth; learning, understanding, exploring, believing, articulating, and living out Christian discipleship.

We have chosen to embark on a full semester-long course consisting of 10 weeks of Confirmation classes including a mini-retreat and culminating with a Confirmation & Baptism Sunday.

During the 10 weeks, youth will learn the core “orthodox” Christian doctrine, Creeds, and Sacraments. Youth will have opportunities to practice these in the congregation and assist the pastoral staff in leading worship. Youth will be taught primarily by Rev. Dan Haugh, with assistance from members of our church pastoral team and adult volunteers.

In additional, youth will explore and practice historic Christian "disciplines" or practices such as silence, giving, worship, Scripture reading, meditation, prayer, confession, and service.

Our Confirmation program will consist of 10 classes over four months and will be offered in the youth catacombs from 12h30 to 13h30 on Sundays: 13, 20 & 27 January;  3, 10, 17 & 24 February;  7, 14 & 21 April.  The date for our Confirmation Sunday and Baptism is 19 May 2013.

Introducing our Youth Ministry Intern — Hanna Woodhead

Hanna WoodheadHanna Woodhead was born and raised near Paris and is a Franco-English dual citizen. She graduated from Sciences-Po Paris with a Master's Degree in Business Administration. During her year abroad, she got a Diploma in American Studies from Smith College (Massachusetts), where she wrote a memoir about the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

In 2010, she enrolled in a dual bachelor's degree in theology at the Protestant Institute of Theology (Paris) and the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Being a theology student, Hanna is currently serving the United Protestant Church of Paris-Plaisance, in the 14th arrondissement, as the assistant pastor.

Her main theological interests are history, psychology of religion, ethics and interfaith dialogue, which is why she is currently working part-time at the Collège des Bernardins (Paris), a major Catholic cultural center. She is the head of its continuing education online course on interfaith knowledge. Prior to that, she worked as a communications officer in a European engineering firm.

You can contact Hanna here.

Youth Ministry

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The youth ministry at ACP exists to Love God and Others through the Grace of Christ.

Another way to look at it is this:

Be. Love. Serve. Repeat.

We strive to be a community that promotes and values being:

Relational — We value real, honest, and sincere relationships: with God and one another.
Hospitable — Regardless of who you are, where you come from, where you are going, or how long you are staying, we hope you feel at home here.
Missional — We believe that God intends Christians to be a blessing to the world.
Christian — We are a Christ-centered community seeking to learn and grow each day to know and follow Jesus.

ACP Youth is an active community made up of students 11-18 years old from many nationalities, traditions, and backgrounds.

All youth ages 11-18 meet every Sunday in the afternoons starting at 15h00 in the ACP catacombs.

The second Sunday of every month is now "Youth Sunday" and we invite all youth to participate in the leading of worship during the 11h00 worship service.

 

Youth Events and Activities

Youth Group meets on Sundays from 15h00-17h30 for fun, fellowship and Bible study in the Catacombs.  Please feel free to bring friends along - they are always welcome at ACP events!

May Schedule

     
 Sunday 05   No Youth Group (school holidays)
 Sunday 12

15h00-17h30

Youth Group "Lycée" ~ Pastor Office
  15h00-17h30  Youth Group "Collège" ~ Gym & Catacombs
 Games session
 Friday 17 20h00-08h00

 Youth Group Lock-In 
 Sunday 19 11h00-12h30

Confirmation Sunday
 Sunday 19 15h00-17h30  Youth Group "Lycée" ~ Catacombs
  15h00-17h30  Youth Group "Collège" ~ G2
"Christian diversity and other religions" series
 Sunday 26 15h00-17h30  Youth Group "Lycée" ~ Catacombs
  15h00-17h30

Youth Group "Collège" ~ G2
"Christian diversity and other religions" series
   

 
     

Contact Rev. Dan Haugh ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for more information about youth events.  You can also follow us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/danhaugh) or connect on Facebook (www.facebook.com/haugh.dan).

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