I go to a United Church of Christ congregation and the confirmation age is 9th grade. I joined the church my senior year, and I went through confirmation at 17 years of age (but I had been baptized at the age of 7). In our church it is a very traditional congregation where most members families have been attending this church for more than one generation, so there is an expectation on the children that they will go through confirmation in the ninth grade. I think it depends on the individual....some are fully committed and ready to go through confirmation, and others are going through because their parents "expect them to". A neat thing I saw last year was one of the members of the confirmation class was unable to go through confirmation with the rest of her class. The others went through on the original date, but when the other member was ready to go through a while later, the rest of the class came back and went through the confirmation ceremony all over again with her. It was the most touching thing I've ever seen!
