Learning the Bible

In sessions of various games, we've been learning the order of the New Testament books and how to find verses in the Bible. I'm proud to report that the youth are now better than the adults at finding verses. Fr. Almonte was so impressed that he announced at the adult Bible study this evening (without forewarning me!) that he was going to have me apply my methods on the adults in leu of their usual Bible study next week. I hope they like running and eating candy!

***Special thanks to the great photograher Cara Virgili for taking all of these!!!***

1/27 Each group (3 total) send a representative to the line. When a verse was called, the participants ran to the Bibles to find it and read it first. Their group members could help them from afar. The first group to earn 5 points (win 5 contests) won, but in the end everyone got a bunch of candy!




















2/3 No pictures, sorry. I left my camera in my apartment. The kids loved this one, too, though. Each group (3 again) made a set of flash cards of the New Testament and each kid received a copy of the order of the books of the Bible. When the time keeper yelled 'Go!' one person from each group ran over to their respective group's cards and began putting them in the correct order. Every 30 seconds the person moving the cards had to change, and the rest of the group had to be 5 feet back, but could yell instructions. It was intra-group competition to beat the personal best each round. They got so good that I had to no longer permit help from their teammates, and suggested that each person memorize few books to put in order....One kid memorized the first 15 books of the New Testament. It was amazing to see them studying like crazy, MEMORIZING the order of the books, just for the game. If I had sat them down at the beginning of the session and told them they'd be studying, they would have left! They didn't even realize what they were doing, and they were thrilled with their success. Again, $0.50 in candy.

2/10 The super secret mystery game to blow away all mystery games! We played a giant Bible Verse Board game! The game pieces included a potted plant, a cinder block, and a basketball. A look at their faces can tell you how well it went! The kids tossed a giant die, moved to a the correct space, then found the verse in Bible for that space before throwing the die again and continuing. Yee haw!