Confirmation "Rites of Passage"

Make sure that there are “Rites of Passage” aspects.

• Reserve some specific activities to be used only as a part of Confirmation. This way younger youth look forward to this time when they get to do these things.
  
• These can be fun things like a lock-in, ropes course, trips
  
• they can be serious things like a service project or preparing a “youth service” for church
  
• they can be ritualistic things like the confirmation service itself. Design your own, unique service. (In my NJ church the staff wrote unique prayers for each youth which were given in the service.)