Ministries and Events :: Youth Ministries

We offer youth and their families a wide array of faith building and mission focused activities, classes, camps and trips. We have an excellent Confirmation program, a summer camping program, and age appropriate gathering for Junior High, Senior High and college-age persons.

Do you need Youth Forum credits??

Check out the new Sunday Night Youth Forums!

Sunday, April 27, through Sunday, May 18

6:00 to 7:00 p.m., meet in Augustana Nursery

Earn those valuable Youth Forum Credits everyone needs for Confirmation. These exciting forums will be led by Cathy Hendrikson and will use the NOOMA issue/value-based video series and curriculum. This is open to all Confirmation students in grades 7 to 9.

Do you need to make up missed Confirmation assignments?

Directions for accessing here We Stand website

Students: Go to www.hwsstudent.org. Sign in with your user name and password (this was sent to you via e-mail at the beginning of the year.)

Hover on "My church," then click on "calendar."

Find the date of the class you missed, then click on the orange box that has the date inside it. This will show you the lesson that was assigned for that date. Click on the title of the lesson. Read the information and type your answers in the white boxes available. When you are done, go to the bottom of page two, where it says "Done? E-mail to: Select one . . ." Select Pastor Erickson from the list, then click on "Send."

Confirmation Age Youth - Grades 7-9
Confirmation Wednesday evenings, 5:50 to 7:00 pm (September to May)
Confirmation, (Celebrate and Proclaim or CAP) is a high tech mix of large group instruction and small group process that allows students and their families to learn about faith together as they move toward affirming faith which occurs at Augustana in the Fall of the tenth grade year. One of the unique features of our program is Lenten Mentoring which matches each student with an adult mentor during Lent for 6 weeks of faith-based discussion and learning. This one program has done wonders to break down barriers between youth and adults in the congregation

   Worship Credit Form (click here)

     Service Credit Form (click here)

     Youth Forum Credit Form (click here)

Youth Forum, grades 7 to 12
Sunday mornings, 9:45 am (September to May)
Presentations and discussions on topics relevant to today's youth.

Senior High: Grades 9-12
(September to May)
Featured events:

• Breakfast Club - First Tuesday morning of the month
• Coffee Club - Wednesday evenings

Other Youth Events:

• The Reach: A youth-led dinner with structured discussion that pairs confirmation-age youth with an older high school-aged mentor. See you in the fall in our brand new space!!

Summer Camps and Trips
We offer a variety of retreats, camps, events, service projects, summer trips, social opportunities, and international mission trips that allow youth to express their faith, develop as leadership skills and serve others. Tentative summer trips for 2008 include:

• Camp Wapo Week: June 15-20 (grades 4-9)
• Rockford, IL: Confirmation-age Service Trip, June 29-July 3.
• South Dakota Family Camp at Lee Valley Ranch: July 5-11.
• Service Learning Daycamp: July 13-15.
• Sonshine Festival, Willmar MN: July 17-20.
• Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Senior High Service Trip, July 25-August 2.
• Guatemala Trip - August 5-15

College Age

We make a strong effort to stay in touch with our college students while they are in school to make sure they feel valued by the congregation.