Confirmation ministry is a catechumenate ministry. Find congregational sponsors for your confirmation students. Train the sponsors to listen, guide, and support the confirmands. Use the Rite of Welcome at the beginning of your confirmation program. Make significant time in your confirmation classes for helping students and sponsors to reflect on the scriptures and to learn to pray.
Baptism offers opportunity for catechumenate ministry.
Adults seeking baptism can be assigned a congregational sponsor who takes part in the preparation time before baptism. The pastor can invite a small group, including the candidate, sponsor, and one or more members, to meet weekly in discussion and prayer before the day of the baptism. The pastor may or may not participate in these meetings. Baptism of children is a time for catechumenate ministry. Invite them to a catechumenate group so that they can have every opportunity to understand the faith into which the child will be baptized.