Bible Drill Weekend

Friday-Sunday was very busy for us this past wkd! We had a Bible Drill event for 7th-12th graders at our church. We had 13 youth attend, but with their level of enthusiasm and participation you'd think we had 30. They were awesome! We had an absolute blast! I was running off very little sleep and organization, but a lot of coffee, prayers, and excitement. We had 5 wonderful college students come in from out of town to help, 2 of our own, and about 7 other adults helping throughout the weekend, not to mention babysitters and cooks. People from our church provided the food. We were so blessed by all the help we had!

The goal of the weekend was to kick-off youth & high school Bible drill that begins tomorrow. We were focusing on learning the books of the Bible in their divisions so the teens could find any book of the Bible in less then 8 seconds and name the book preceding, the book called, and the book following. I must say, the teens still have some work to do, but they smoked us adults in our big drill Sat night! So much pressure for this Bible Drill leader!

We had a "throne" (yes, that is a toilet seat we painted gold) we passed around to the teams with the most points.


They earned points by taking notes, working hard, quoting Scriptures, participating, best Bible book raps & cheers, winning relays before meals (losers had to sing songs loudly with hand motions, until the kitchen staff was satisfied), and bribery. Jason and I have never enjoyed ourselves quite so much! It was absolutely incredible what those kids (and leaders!) would do for points. We received fan mail, a toilet paper roll necklace, paper plate wrist band, neck & shoulder massages, as much cake as we wanted, chips, foam cup pipe cleaner & popsicle stick glasses. Such fun! Its definitely great when relativism works in your favor... We did eventually change the system so they could only get points from drilling and Scripture memory quotations...just had to have some fun first.

Sunday morning the kids quoted Scriptures & books of the Bible from memory. They drilled and shared salvation testimonies. I was so proud of them! They had one 30 minute practice before Sunday School and that was it. They did so well!

Stay tuned for a recount of our Midnight Expedition Saturday night...