Nathan participated in an event this summer called the Bible Bee. We joined the competition without much knowledge of what all it entailed and were immediately overwhelmed! There are two tracks in the competition-the local only (called Timothy) track and the National track. In order to make it to the National finals, you have to participate in the National track to begin with and this means learning more verses. Nathan, of course, being a competitor, wanted to go with the National track. We signed him up for that, but since he will turn 11 before the National competion in November, he was not in the primary division, but the junior. After receiving the stack of verses he had to learn, I easily talked him into changing to the Timothy track. To compare the two, Timothy track needed to learn on average 6 Bible passages a week for 12 weeks while the National track needed to learn 20. (And a passage is between 1-4 verses in the Timothy track.)
In addition to learning Bible verses, we also had a daily Bible study in I Peter. To me it was similar to a Precept type study, but not as indepth since it was for kids. It did, though, take a lot of time and catch up days due to Nathan being gone at different camps.
I was very proud of Nathan for doing this. He was the one who wanted to participate to begin with, but he did want to quit. Although I was for him changing his track, I didn't think it would be a good thing for him to quit. So he stuck it out. I was especially proud of him when he stuck to learning his verses and doing his Bible study when he found out that he was the only one in his age division, so he had won before he started. But the goal of a Bible Bee is not just to win, but to learn God's word. And he did! He had 10 minutes to recite 25 verses picked from the stack of verses he needed to learn. He had not learned every verse, so he had to pass on 6 verses. But of the ones he said, he only missed on average, less then one point per verse. And at least two of those points was from not saying the reference.
In the local bee, he did win first place, and last as the Pastor pointed out! But when we were able to see his scores compared to the rest of the nation, it sounded a lot better. He was 42 out of 255!! So yeah for Nathan! He did great!
The winners from Charleston Baptist!! Grace Jackson also won first place!
Our local Bible Bee participants
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