{"id":5837,"date":"2021-04-22T12:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T17:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2021-05-20T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:39:32","slug":"confirmation-journey-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstuccdc.org\/index.php\/2021\/04\/22\/confirmation-journey-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Journey 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p><strong><u>Confirmation Journey:\u00a0 Living Out Our Faith and Building Interfaith Bridges<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Confirmation Sunday is May 23<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of the Confirmation journey, the youth are often asked: what does it mean to live out our faith?\u00a0 To answer that question, we brought them to Adams Morgan to visit with amazing community leaders who run faith-inspired non-profits to serve the poor and working poor.<\/p>\n<p>On March 21, they met with Terry Flood of Jubilee Jobs and Jim Knight and Marty Mellett of Jubilee Housing.\u00a0 The leaders each shared their faith story, why faith has compelled them into the work they are doing.\u00a0 In three different groups, they took the confirmands and their mentors on a tour of the Adams Morgan neighborhood where their non-profits serve the poor and working poor residents in this highly gentrified neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>The youth saw the beautiful and dignified apartment buildings owned by Jubilee Housing.\u00a0 They peeked in on the dance studio at the Sitar Community Arts center.\u00a0 They learned about the ministry to provide a welcome and strong foundation for people returning home from prison. They learned from a resident at the Kairos House about the healing he received from Christ House.\u00a0 To paraphrase Matthew 25, to honor God is to serve those who most need our help.\u00a0 These leaders truly embody this message.<\/p>\n<h4>On Sunday, May 9, the confirmands will build bridges with our interfaith siblings at the Guru Gobind Singh Foundation, a Sikh faith community in Rockville, MD.\u00a0 There they will volunteer at their pandemic drive-thru food pantry which serves more than 2000 people each Sunday.\u00a0 They will attend a prayer service and attend an education session to learn more about the Sikh religion.\u00a0 We are grateful for the warm welcome we have received from Guru Gobind.\u00a0\u00a0 We also stand with them in opposition to the violence and racism they have endured in America, most recently evidenced in the shootings in Indianapolis.<\/h4>\n<h4>Confirmation Sunday is May 23. We hope you can join us.\u00a0 Each of these confirmands has brought their whole self into learning about God, the Bible, and what it means to live out our Christian faith in a world that is in such great need for healing and justice.\u00a0 We are thankful to the mentors for guiding them these last three months, for Rev. Amanda for shepherding their journey, and for Rev. 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