Bible Quizzing: The Awesomest Activity Ever!

Once a week a few teams will gather. Each team can only have six quizzers in a match at a time. Four players are active while two sit out as substitutes. There are 15 questions asked by the quizmaster. For each right answer the player’s team receive 10 points. By end of the round a winning team is found. Players need to have good memories to remember small details involving several chapters in the chosen book of the Bible.

This year the book of Acts was chosen, specifically chapters 10 through 28. This weekend two teams traveled to Richmond from Harrisonburg. One team was from Crossroads/Trissels while the other was from Mount Clinton Mennonite Church. Several EMS students participate in the Bible quizzing. They include me, Freeman Bendfeldt in 12th, Joseph Bender in 11th, Maria Martin in 11th, Jenny Hartzler in 10th, John Gullman in 10th, Malinda Bender in 9th, and Jared Giel in 7th. We traveled to meet two teams half way from Chesapeake. We had lunch and then had seven quiz matches. The first five matches were just over the two chapters that all the teams had studied that week, while the last two matches covered the first half of Acts.

All of the teams are preparing for the big Bible Quizzing Tournament up in Lancaster Pennsylvania, where hundreds of Bible Quizzers will gather to compete and half out.

- Freeman Bendfeldt