Neighborhood Bible Time

NBT is an action packed week of Bible, fun, and eternal decisions. I have been privileged to be apart of it for 3 years now. This year, Mrs. Julie and I taught the Juniors which are 4th-6th graders. We were a bit out of our element at first with us used to teaching the younger children but it was a lot of fun. We had an average of 32 to 36 children each day.

We started off with class time. Julie taught the Bible story and I taught the missionary story.

Mrs. Julie teaching After class time and a 20 minute break for snack and running around, the juniors headed to the sanctuary for Rally Time with Evangelist Mr. Matt.

Rebecca, along with others, was able go listen to the missionary's secret. To be able to hear this, you must bring at least 2 visitors and promise to not share the secret with anyone other than your parents. If you do, you have to give your ribbons back to Mr. Matt. This was something that both Em and Bec took very seriously!

Offering is a lot of fun for the children. It is a competition between the Wonderful Women and the Mighty Men. It is given in pennies. If you have dollar bills, you can exchange it for penny rolls. If you bring $5, you can buy a gold brick. In the past, the girls usually dominate. This time, the boys were spending lots of money and bought several gold bricks.

After the collection of the pennies and bricks in the pink or blue buckets, the children are made to do something fun. Everything is a contest and the boys won this round.

Each child is given a study guide to complete throughout the week. The primaries color and the juniors have questions to answer from the Bible. On the front of the study guide is a coloring sheet. On Wednesday, there is a coloring contest. There are 4 top contestants for each group. Surprisingly, Rebecca was picked as one. This is her face when her friend Christine's name was called, too.
Here are the top 4. They have to turn around and their peers do to voting anonymously.
Christine and Rebecca

During the week, the children learn 5 facts to our everlasting life. Here is one child doing fact

# 1.

Here is another doing fact #2.

I heard the booster cheer hundreds of times during the week. With 4 girls (my 2 plus a friend each) in the car on the 30 minute ride there and 30 minutes home each day... I was completely burned out of the booster cheer!