Junior Bible Quiz

What is the PURPOSE of JBQ?
Junior Bible Quiz (JBQ) was created and designed to help children develop a love for the Bible and an understanding that its truth can guide their lives daily. Junior Bible Quiz offers a fun, exciting way to motivate children to understand the all-important truths in God's Word. Through cooperative learning, children work together on teams to learn and understand the questions and answers from the Bible Fact-Pak. Then using cooperative competition the children meet with other teams for a fun quizzing match. There are twenty questions in a match, with two teams of quizzers trying to beat each other to the buzzers to get the first shot at the answers. It has been said that JBQ is the fastest growing discipleship program in children's ministry.

5 Easy Steps to Starting JBQ in Your Church:
1. Select a coach.
2. Order materials from GPH. All you need to start quizzing is a Bible Fact-Pak and a copy of the JBQ Official Quiz Guidelines. Other products at the GPH site are also useful, but not required.
Quiz Level Rules 2008-2009
National JBQ Resources
3. Enlist boys and girls in grades 1 through 6.
4. Schedule practices.
5. Register with your Oregon Ministry Network JBQ Coordinator Bryan Reeder
2008-2009 JBQ Registration Form

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Fees

• The 2008-2009 yearly fee will be $35.00
• The tournament fee will be $20 per team per tournament.

***New this year:  The $5.00 discount for Certified Officials is NO longer available.***

Officials

• Certification
• 85% Needed
• The certification is valid as long as you participate in at least one tournament each year - recertify if you sit out a year. 
• Your officials can be certified online at http://bqtest.org/ or they can be certified at the Officials Training on Friday, October 17th. 
• Each quiz team should provide 2 officials per team per tournament.  One official needs to be stationary, while the other official can be roaming with their team. 
• 10 Bonus Points for a Certified Stationary Official per match.   
• ***New this year:  5 Bonus Points per match for a Roaming Official***
• First year churches are exempt their first year from the official requirements.
  

News from Gospel Publishing House

• New JBQ Resource:  Bible Fact-Pak Lessons and Activity Pages CD-ROM.  Item #26TW0963; Price:  $29.99   Prep your kids for the next JBQ quiz meet while laying down a framework for lasting discipleship with this JBQ curriculum. These 26 lessons and activities will help your kids understand the scriptural background of the Bible Fact-Pak questions and answers. Geared toward a second grade level, the Lessons and Activity Pages also includes activities and discussion questions for higher grades. Bible Fact-Pak questions of 10, 20, and 30 point values are combined throughout the lessons, allowing kids of varying ages to work on the same session at their own level.
• JBQ Rules and Guidelines:  They will no longer be printed, but you will be able to download them from the JBQ website.  However, the download is not yet available.
• Check out the JBQ Forum - http://forums.ag.org/jbq/index.php  

Tournaments!

2008-2009 Quizzing Schedule

October 18th: Ice Breaker
Location: Portland Christian Center
Sections: #1-#6

December 6th: Fall Tournament
Location: LifePoint
(Vancouver, WA)
Sections: #7-#12

Jan 31st: Winter Tournament
Location: New Beginnings Christian
Center (Portland)
Sections: #13-#18

March 7th: Spring Tournament
Location: Salem People's Church
Sections: #19-#24

April 18th: Network Finals
Location: Bethel Church (Medford)
Sections: #1-#24

May 1st-2nd: JBQ Regionals
Location: Boise, Idaho

June 11th-13th
JBQ National Festival