It is exciting to have a team of 12 on our local Woodland Quiz team!

That’s more than doubled from last year!

Those of you that home school ought to present this idea of Teen Quizzing to your local home school group, because that is how ours got larger!

If you don’t have a local TEEN quiz team, you don’t have to home school to do so, but it just takes a couple to get it going. It is very important to get our YOUTH into the Word!

There IS Teen Quizzing on our district. If you do not have this dynamic, fun, ministry in your church, you should! The best person to contact about this is James Holston, WAPAC Teen Quizzing director at Jsholston8@aol.com.

You may also get information on a few websites and learn more about it by going to: www.youthquiz.com and www.jumpster.org. Teen Quizzing officially starts with a meet in Oct. and goes through April. Their meets are the FIRST Sat. of the month, unless otherwise noted and/or a holiday occurs. The costs involved are generally the materials you buy from www.youthquiz.com, jump seats from www.quizequipment.com and other items you might deem necessary. A few other great websites are: www.acmequiz.com, of which I personally like for ordering the Study Guides. Another one with $1 Scripture portions is: www.wbqa.org The fee to attend each meet has been $5 per quizzer.

Parental involvement is a key, just like it is in Children’s Quizzing. A quizzing demonstration is also given at the WAPAC Jr. High Summer camp.

The format of teen quizzing is much different than Children’s Quizzing. For more detailed information see the specifics listed on a sheet given at a Quiz Rally a few years back (click here: How Quizzing Works). The team is comprised of no more than 6 members(the two subs would alternate EACH round), 4 in the jump seats at a time, but there could be less. A teen quizzer, after hearing the question, or part of it, jumps off their electronic pad that signals a light and/or buzzer to go off. The first person up, gets to answer the question. If correct, they are awarded individual and team points. A quizzer “quizzes out” after he/she has answered 4 questions, whereas in Children’s Quizzing the quizzer HAS to answer ALL the questions.

Won’t you consider having this exciting ministry in your church? There’s nothing more important than instilling God’s Word in our youth’s hearts and minds. It’s not hard to do this. Think of the eternal applications it will make on our youth’s lives. Teen quizzing offers not only a Bible study geared for teens, but fellowship and lasting friendships with Christian teens across our district.

Check out www.jumpster.org to find a quiz meet near you in the 2009-2010 quizzing season!

You don’t want to miss out!

Tammy Birnel

Former Children’s Quizzing Coordinator &

Current Teen Quizzing Coach