Is a two-year program, for students in the seventh and eighth grades.  If you would like your child to attend, or would like more information on the class, please contact the church office at 469-2586; or by e-mail: www.shellspastor@verizon.net

Classes are held during the Sunday School hour at 9:15 a.m., during the regular school season.

Baptism is the way in which Christians receive the Holy Spirit.  In Holy Baptism, parents or sponsors of young children promise to bring them to God’s house and to teach them the Lord’s Prayer, the Creed and the Ten Commandments.  Parents or sponsors also promise to place the Bible in the child’s hands and to provide for their instruction in the Christian faith.

Part of the instruction in the Christian faith for children consists of catechistical instructions, a time for children to focus on the teachings of Luther’s Small Catechism.  At the conclusion of this instruction, young men and women are given the opportunity to affirm their faith, that is, to say “yes” to the promises their parents and sponsors made to God on their behalf.

As they promise to “continue in the covenant God made in Holy Baptism:  to live among God’s faithful people, to hear His Word and share in His supper, to proclaim the good news of God in Christ through word and deed, to serve all people, following the example of our Lord Jesus, and to strive for justice and peace in all the earth,” remind yourself of the power and meaning of your Baptism, and the implications Baptism has for your life in and out of the faith community.

  In Jesus’ Name, 

Pastor Hostetter

Come Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.  Send forth your Spirit so that they may be created and thou shall renew the face of the earth.