Youth 
Weekly Sunday Classes
9:30 to 10:30 a.m. September - May

  [See explanation of Rite 13 and Journey to Adulthood-J2A below.]  

Rite 13 (current Seventh and Eighth Grades) — Room 206

J2A (current Ninth and Tenth Grades) — Room 205

YAC (current Eleventh and Twelfth Grades) —   Senior-High Room (below the Sanctuary)

In addition to the regular Sunday morning meetings, each group gets together one Sunday evening a month for food, fun, and fellowship.

About Journey to Adulthood  

Journey to Adulthood is Westminster’s Christian education program for young people in grades 6 - 12.   Journey to Adulthood (or J2A) has two guiding principles: (1) that manhood and womanhood are free gifts from God, and (2) that adulthood must be earned.

The program is divided into three, two-year components: 

• Rite 13 (a name based on a liturgical celebration integral to the program). This part of the program focuses on fun and community building, celebrates the gift of gender, and provides a foundation for the remainder of the program. 
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J2A (Journey to Adulthood) builds on Rite-13 by training young people in six necessary skills of adulthood: Listening, Assertion, Negotiation, Research and Information Management, Partnership, and Leadership. J2A culminates in a week-long spiritual journey, or pilgrimage, in the summer following the second year of the program.
• YAC (Young Adults in the Church) builds on the previous four years of the program by enabling the young people to practice their newly acquired skills in the context of the supportive community. It includes a week-long mission experience planned and executed by the youth.

In each component, issues of concern to youth on their journey into adulthood are addressed in light of the Gospel.