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FINK STUDENTS AND PARENTS –
Now that we are past Lenten Faith Mentoring, FINK NITES are starting up again – beginning this Wednesday, April 15th. But due to these strange times we are living in, FINK will need to be conducted differently. In a nutshell, there are 3 online gatherings each FINK NITE:
- 6:00pm FINK begins with RECHARGE Worship – on Facebook Live. Go to the church’s Facebook page. Get there easiest by going to our website www.saintand.org Click “Follow us on Facebook” on the right side of the home page.
The Sermon Notes Document can be accessed by clicking HERE or from the link on the Facebook page that will appear right before service starts.
2. 6:30 (or 5 minutes after worship ends) FINK NITE continues with PD – via a Zoom meeting. We have emailed the Zoom meeting invitation. If you or your student have not received this invitation, please text Nikki (218-259-9129), the students name and the best email address to use. We are not clear whether school-issued iPads and/or school related emails will allow use of Zoom, so if possible, please send us an alternative email address.
***Small Group Handouts and Home Huddle Sheets are posted below
NT06HomeHuddleHandout 4-29-2020
NT06YouthHandout 4-29-2020
3. 7:00 (or immediately after PD ends his FINK NITE presentation) Small Groups, gather via a separate Zoom meeting set up by your small group Guide, which will be or has been emailed to you.
The remainder of the FINK year looks like this (and is the same as the original schedule):
April 15 Peter and early Church
April 22 Fellowship – Zoom with Nikki
April 29 Paul and letters of Paul
May 6 Revelation to John
May 13 Fellowship/Service TBD – in person if allowed; on line if necessary
Thank you for your patience. Thank you for the extra effort it will take you to log in to three separate meetings. Thank you for your commitment to ongoing faith formation!
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LENTEN FAITH MENTORING
Though all in-person worship is canceled until May 18, we are continuing to gather as a community of faith on Facebook Live. We are streaming all worship services so please watch worship Wednesdays at 6:00, and then call your Faith Mentor or your Mentee (student) and use the discussion guide available to download below and have your discussion.
Click HERE to submit your sermon notes for your Confirmation requirements. 🙂
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Our confirmation ministry for youth in grades 7, 8, and 9 is called “FINK.” That’s short for Faith Inkubators – the
ministry organization who developed the materials and approach we use. It’s a combination of large group presentations, small group processing, fellowship events (goofing off!) and service projects.
The presentations
combine music, skits, video clips, “game show” previews and reviews, analogies and images as the pastors teach the different parts of our faith. We cover the major components of Martin Luther’s Small Catechism (Sacraments of Baptism and Communion, the Lord’s Prayer, the Ten Commandments and Apostle’s Creed), Lutheran Worship and the Bible.
Small Groups are where “the rubber hits the road.” This is where faith formation happens and relationships are built. Youth are divided into small groups of between 3-6 youth, based on gender and grade level, and are joined by an Adult 
Guide and a Youth Mentor, who is a high school student.
Guide and a Youth Mentor, who is a high school student.In most cases, the same people are in the same small group all three years of FINK. The first thing – and perhaps the most important thing – that happens in small group time following each presentation is the sharing of Highs and Lows and praying for each other’s Highs and Lows. Then guided discussion about the topic of the night takes up most of the rest of small group time, before all groups gather once again in the sanctuary for a wrap-up.
Fellowship Events and Service Projects – On those Wednesdays we do not have a FINK Presentation, all 7th, 8th adn 9th grade students and their Guides will be engaged in Fellowship and/or Service. Nikki Rud, Director of Children Youth and Family Ministries, will be spearheading this so that all the FINK Small Groups can do this together as a large group. If a Small Group has a specific Fellowship event or Service Project they would like to do apart from what the Large Group, that’s fine. What we want for Fellowship are times when the group gets together just to have fun being together. It could be a campfire, or going out fishing, or a movie night, riding bikes on the Mesabi Trail, a makeover night. The sky is the limit! It is a way to build relationships through the sharing of common experiences. We do Service Projects as serving is something followers of Jesus are called to do. “We love and serve God by loving and serving people”. From projects at the church, to raking or shoveling for an elderly person, making a meal for someones grandma, baking cookies for someone in grief, visiting and reading to residents at a nursing home, washing the cars of all the group’s parents,cutting and stacking wood, providing child care so parents can go on a date night or shopping or attend an event at church. The possibilities are endless!
FINK SCHEDULE 2019-2020
FINK is now part of our Wednesday RECHARGE, which includes a meal for everyone served 5:00- 6:00 and worship at 6:00. Worship is part of FINK. Plan on being at St. Andrew’s each Wednesday evening 6:00 – 8:00 PM
DATE TOPIC MAKE-UP ASSIGNMENTS HOME HUDDLE SHEET
September 4th: ORIENTATION FOR ALL 7th, 8th, and 9th grade youth AND parents – 6pm no meal or worship
RECHARGE begins! Meal, worship, FINK and Final 15 (for more info, click here!)
FINK service and fellowship night
October 2nd: FINK service/fellowship
October 16th: FINK service/fellowship
October 30th: FINK service/fellowship
November 20th: FINK service/fellowship
December 11th: FINK service/fellowship
December 18th: FINK NITE – The Teachings of Jesus Unit 19
December 25th: NO CONFIRMATION/RECHARGE – MERRY CHRISTMAS!
January 15th: FINK service/Fellowship
January 29th: FINK service/fellowship
LENT BEGINS WITH ASK WEDNESDAY ON FEBRUARY 26 AND GOES THROUGH EASTER ON APRIL 12. ALL FINK YOUTH PARTICIPATE IN LENTEN FAITH MENTORING DURING LENT.
April 22nd: FINK service/fellowship
May 13th: FINK service/fellowship – Church & Yard Cleanup and party/wrap up
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