It's official. Sunday practices will be from 6:00-7:00pm on Sunday nights. Now many of you might not remember that that is the time quiz practices used to be- back in the dark ages when Ryan Donley was still in high school. I'm hoping that this time slot will work for the majority of teens who are wanting to quiz this year.

 

Wednesday night practices will start September 2nd and will be from 6:00-6:45 every Wednesday night that there is youthgroup.

 

If for some reason you want to quiz, but you are busy both Sunday and Wednesday nights come talk to me. You are welcome to learn the material on your own and still come to the quizzes, but I will warn you of this: know that it is very difficult to remain motivated without the encouragement of others. And if you are that motivated, the rest of the teens on your team will suffer because you're not at practice every week shaming them into studying.

 

(BTW the only teen I have ever coached that was THAT motivated was Jon-Mark who spent at least 30 minutes every day memorizing. He can still quote 1st and 2nd Corinthians.)

This will be my 11th year as a teen quizzing coach at HNC. That means that my new seventh graders were in the toddler class when I first started. People age, kids grow up, but God's word stays the same. It's just as important in guiding lives now as it was eleven years ago or eleven hundred years ago for that matter.

 

I'm thinking that this year we are going to try quizzing on Sunday evenings at the same time as the children's quizzers which will be from 6:00-7:00 pm during the evening service.  I can't make it official though, until Pastor Chris gets back from Senior high camp and I have a chance to talk with him about it. It will help a couple of families who have kids and teens in quizzing. It will be good and bad for me- good because I won't have to get up quite so early on Sunday mornings and bad because now I will spend my Sunday afternoons thinking about quizzing instead of napping.  On Wednesday nights we will continue to practice before youthgroup from 6:00-6:45pm.

 

I've fallen behind in my memorization goals. It seems as though life has gotten in the way. That happens sometimes. Instead of quitting though, I'm going to pick myself up and after some reviewing and rememorizing I'm going to start in where I left off at the end of 1 Corinthians chapter 6.  If you've fallen behind. Please don't get discouraged. Make some new goals for yourself and then get started on them right away. Ask me if I've finished chapter 6 and I'll give you a prize. Accountability is good for adults as well as teens.