Bible Bee Scripture Memory Verses Finalists
Posted on August 30, 2011
ROMANS 12:15 tells us to "Rejoice with those who rejoice..." Here at Memverse we want to do that in congratulating any Memverse members who become Bible Bee Finalists!! Please help me out as we attempt to find and list them all on this blog page. We will also set up a new accountability chart to help encourage anyone who wants to memorize the extra 161/261/361 (including the 61 verses in 2 PETER) verses the Bible Bee Finalists will be memorizing or studying in getting ready for "Nashville in November". All are welcome to join this chart even if you, like me, will not be competing in the November contest. Regarding 2 PETER, you can treat those verses however you want. I would encourage contestants to consider memorizing the entire book to be best ready for the contest. However, you may also declare them as "fully studied but not memorized" and we will still count it on this chart.
May we also be sensitive to Bible Bee participants who did not make the list of finalists. ROMANS 12:15 ends with "... mourn with those who mourn." The obvious truth is that being one of the finalists has little to do with how much God will use His powerful Scripture in your life in the years to come. May we stress this and be gracious in our conversation on this blog.
CONGRATULATIONS to our Memverse Bible Bee Finalists:
Seniors: Christian Alexander, Josiah DeGraaf, Laura Hedstrom, Grace Mieczkowski, Marie Morris, Bethany Pentimone, Alex Watt, Abigail Brigham, Olivia Guillard, Rachel Eaton, Prasanth Venigalla, Nina Camillone, Darcy Arnall, Stephanie Hills, Elizabeth Ledford, Angela McCain, Melody Mieczkowski, Thomas Youngman, Matthew Staley, Seth Walley, Seth Lehman, Elanee Smythe; Virginia Cruser = 23 finalists
Juniors: Nicolas Alexander, Zachary Baas, Hannah Del Toro, Clara Kho, Matthew Minica, Courtney Minica, Carissa Pentimone, Hannah Teeters, Kaitlyn Vredevoogd, Emily Brigham, Ben Watt, Allison Couch, Abigail Sutton, Alethea Leonard, Kerestel Leonard, Monica Duitsman, Hannah Leary; Joshua Bontrager; BonnieLeigh Cruser; Meggie Cruser = 20 finalists
Primary: Kara Buckner; Abigail Lehman = 2 finalists
A through T Primary Accountability Chart. Each declaration = 8 verses.
Felice A B C D
A through T Junior Accountability Chart. Each declaration = 13 verses.
Matthew M TX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Kaitlyn V MI A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Carissa P MO A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Zachary B MI A B
Alethea L MN A B C
Kerestel L MN A B C D E F G H I J K
Nicolas A OH A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 261 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 700 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Hannah D VA A B C D E F G
Clara K NC A B C D
Monica D TX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P
A through T Senior Accountability Chart. Each declaration = 18 verses.
Bethany P MO A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Stephanie Hills FL A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Josiah D PA A B C D E
Laura H NE A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come
Christian A OH A B C D E F G H I J K L M N
Grace M MI A B C D
Alex W PA A B C
Seth W MO A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for completing this chart of 361 verses. You are in Jacky and my daily prayers as you sharpen all 1,100 verses for Nashville and study 1 and 2 PETER. More than that, we pray that God will speak powerfully in your life as you meditate on His Word and keep and treasure many of these 2011 Bible Bee verses for years to come.
Phil W IDN A B C D E F G H
429 responses to Bible Bee Scripture Memory Verses Finalists
Off topic, sorry.
@ Mr. Walker: Did you get the e-mail from my dad? He e-mailed you the calendar for memorizing Romans over the next sixteen months. He sent it to you at about 6:30 AM your time, so hopefully you got it and can post it soon!
Can't wait to figure out who they are! I know that I am probably not one of them as I got a horrible score, but I'm ok with that. God has grown me in so many different ways this summer! Can't wait to congratulate all the finalists! :)
For some reason, I tried going to the Bible Bee website and it said i had to be logged in, but I've never had to do that before...does anyone know why?
Im going to see everyone at Nationals because my dad is the CEO of the Bible Bee so I will get to see a great deal of diligent people, and see all their hard work pay off.
There is a way to get to the scores though the back door...although I have not discovered it yet. My mom knows it though, and maybe I might be able to share it here.
@Ashley Bible Bee Jr 11 (NASB) - I didn't get to compete because I was in the hospital until Thursday from a ruptured appendix. My dad didn't think it would be a good idea to compete on Saturday, even though the Local host offered to call the headquarters and see if they could send someone to test me wherever I was. (hospital or home) Wasn't that sweet? That's why I'm crying, though, 'cause I worked so hard and then wasn't able to compete at all in the Locals! :( *sniff* you're getting me worked up again. Just kidding! :) Haven't shed a tear about it, even though I'm really sad...:( Wow. I really wish I could go to Nationals! :) But, if I wasn't competing, I wouldn't want to go. I want to bee (haha) IN it, not watching it!!!! That's my personality! :)
@Theodore Ja - Congratulations! :)
@Zachary Baas - yes, yes, yes! :) I so wanna know if any of my friends made it or not!!!! :) I have a really good friend and her sisters made it to the top 5 in each of their divisions (JR & SR) and I really hope they make it. Their whole family is so cool! :)
Ok, so I don't know if i'm even supposed to be wrighting here, but I have to so...here it goes. I found out about the Bee about 5 or 6 days ago, so I don't know much. But I've been watching videos on youtube like crazy. The only problem is that I live in Peru (South America) and the only videos I can get are from 09 and 10. So sad. Anyway Does anyone know how I can get this year's ones? Oh can I participate in next year's ones from here or do I have to be in the country? Oops I almost forgot. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Briana - On the videos: Nationals 2011 is coming November 16-19 in Nashville, Tennessee, and so there are not videos yet for it. However, they will probably do a live "webcast" of the Finals again... I'm sure you'll hear more on that. The Bible Bee is currently limited to legal citizens of the fifty United States and the District of Colombia, but there is nothing to stop you from memorizing the verses. Also, I would hope that other countries would start similar programs.
Briana - The National Bible Bee Finals are in November, make sure you go to the website for all the details: www.BibleBee.org
Also here is the link to the live recording from last years Finals:
http://www.livestream.com/nationalbiblebee/video?clipId=pla_7997253f-1391-4a5f-9228-5d924adfed59
It starts at the 29min mark :)
Ok thanks. I think I got that, so I´ll try to keep up. But One thing....I am a legal citizen of the USA, at least I think I am. I mean, I was born in Iowa. Does that count? We just live here because we are missionaries. But I guess that means I can't compete from here right?
Briana, we are thrilled that a missionary from Peru is joining us on memverse. I was born in Indonesia on the mission field and have a theory that there are lots of missionary families around the world who would be thrilled to be memorizing Scripture with us here on memverse if they just gave it a chance. However, so far all my efforts to spread the word about memverse among the missionary community have come up mostly empty. I would love any help you could give in letting other missionaries (Maybe through missionary schools you attend or know about) know about memverse and/or ideas of how I can more effectively spread the word among missionary families.
The 29min mark refers to 29 minutes in from the start of the video. I will let others help you with changing your picture. Yes, being from Iowa does count as being a USA citizen. The Bible Bee is open to USA citizens taking the local contest abroad as long as there is an appropriate location willing to go through all the hoops to ensure a fair contest and pay the extra shipping costs. However, if you advanced, you would have to attend the Nationals in the USA in November 2012. If you cannot find someone in Peru to run the local Bible Bee and to receive the Bible Bee's approval to have one, you could still sign up for a local Bee in the USA while living in Peru and just be prepared to come to that location in August. I wish you all the best!!
Briana - You can change your profile picture by going to http://en.gravatar.com/ and signing up with the same email address you use on Memverse. That website will help you add a picture to associate with your email address, and then when Memverse looks up your profile picture it will find that one. That would be cool if you could participate in the Bee! And like Phil said, it would be great if you could spread the word about Memverse among missionaries!
Phil - Thank you for explaining how you can participate in the Bee as a U.S. citizen even while living abroad.
@ Mr. Walker: Did you get my e-mail? I e-mailed you the calendar my dad made for memorizing Romans over the next sixteen months. I sent it to you Monday night my time, so hopefully you got it and can post it soon!
My family is also missionaries, and I have really appreciated Memverse since I started using it near the beginning of this year. I will try and spread the word to other missionaries around here!
Thanks for sharing with us Victoria. So we have at least 2 families using memverse and might get more. Praise God. Thanks for spreading the word about memverse. Can I ask where you are missionaries?
Christian, sorry for my delay in getting back to you. I am terrible on computers and have no idea how to post your Dad's awesome calendar that came through to me excellent on word. Perhaps you can set up a pdf file to send people to, or email it to Alex so he can find a way to post it on memverse. I will share the basics of it on the 1 PETER blog without any graphics.
Alex and Briana, I want to clarify that it is not easy for someone to host a local Bible Bee overseas. There are issues the local hosts will have to work through with Headquarters and extra costs involved in shipping everything overseas. I just wanted to make the point that Bible Bee is open to the idea and so it is possible. (I believe it has not been done, but HQ looked into possibly doing it with a group in Germany - possibly US military personel.)
I will try to do that, Mr. Walker. Thanks for getting back to me.
Alex, if you wouldn't mind giving me your e-mail address, I can try to e-mail the document to you as well, and maybe you will be able to post it.
Christian - For now, at least, I've changed the Profile setting so that you can see my email address by viewing my profile. If you just click "Alex Watt" by this comment, you should see it. Thanks. Edit: Mr. Walker just emailed me the PDF of your dad's Romans calendar, so I should be able to upload it soon. Thanks.
OK thanks Mr. Walker. My mom is actually even more excited about this than I am, so she is going to talk about it at the next missionary meeting. And if we get an appropriate location would we still have to have someone special to test us or could we do it on skype or something?
Okay, Alex, I sent the e-mail a few hours ago, so let me know if there are problems. Thanks.
Briana - Yes, the Bible Bee does have rules on that... You would have to have a local contest with judges who could proctor your written test and figure out the points for your oral round, and they can't be immediate family. (At least, that's how it has worked here...) Here in the US, my family helped host a local bee with around 45 children participating which took about 40+ volunteers. Maybe your missionary group would be able to help serve as volunteers for a local contest next August and hopefully their children would be interested too.
Christian - Thanks. Phil also sent it to me, and I didn't see yours till just now because it went into my Spam folder! Attention Google: A calendar for memorizing Romans is not spam. :)
Alright, great! Hopefully you can smoothly transfer it to a PDF file that you can link to from a blog post, for all of those who want to join us. I'll find out tonight at our church's prayer meeting how many others from my church will be joining us. So far, there's for sure: Nicolas, my dad, a young married couple, and me. Then there are potentially some other friends of mine who are already on memverse who are going to make their decision once they see the calendar. I pray that there will be a lot of people who want to join us on this big investment.
P.S. The interesting thing about prayer meeting tonight is that it always starts at 7:00 PM EST, so I'll be half an hour away when the scores are posted! :P
I was able to be in the top five at the locals because there were only five seniors. : ) However I doubt that I will be able to go to Nationals cause I don't think I got a very good score. :( BiblebeeJunior11 That is terrible. :( I hope what you learned this year will aid you in next years bee. : )
Well I was just on the Bible Bee website and I didn't get into nationals. : ) Oh well. Being in the Bible Bee has inspired me to try even harder for next year!! Congratulations to everyone who will be competing at nationals!!!!!! Also congratulations to everyone who has spent there summer in the best way!!!!! : ) Matthew 6:19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break in and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
I didn't make it :( I'm sad because it was my last year. And I was so close! I'm 173 Nationwide and 8 in California. I just needed 200 more points to make it! Oh well. I'm definitely going to keep memorizing scripture for the rest of my life! The Bible Bee has sparked an interest and passion in me to learn God's word. May everyone who doesn't make it to Nationals remember that we have a treasure in our hearts that can never be taken away! And congratulations to everyone who did make it!
Is it okay if I declare some passages that I already know here?
Assuming your answer will be yes, here goes: Matthew M - TX - Sets A, B, & C: Psalm 34:4-19, Romans 12:6-12, Romans 12:14-18, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Timothy 1:17 = 30 verses
BTW: I am only declaring these verses because I am SURE that I know them. I have them all memorized on Memverse already.
EDIT: Except for Ephesians 4:32. :) I have not even added that one yet. But I KNOW that I know the verse - it was just about the first one I ever memorized!
Congratulations those that went ! Good luck and keep your eyes focused on Jesus I finished 161st.
Thanks, Nathan, and yes, congrats to all! I placed 71, and my friend, KaitlynV, placed 50!! I am soo excited!!
SavedByGrace and I both made it to the Bible Bee!!
Nicolas placed 63rd in Junior National, and I placed 81st in Senior National!
We are very excited, and look forward to meeting many of you in November!
Here we go
Kaitlyn V - MI - set A - Psalm 19:7-10, Psalm 118:22-23, Colossians 3:1-4 = 10 verses
Congratulations, Matthew, you beat me at getting the first declaration in. I'm glad you're joining us again. I actually changed the rules a little. We are including 2 PETER on this chart. Therefore the new junior declarations are 13 verses. I am posting one letter per day for those in the lead. I will post your B tomorrow. Feel free to just declare 9 verses for your C declaration, since you already declared 4 extra verses for your A and B.
Kaitlyn, great to see you are up for another accountability encouragement. With the new change in declaration #, you owe me 3 verses and can simply declare 16 in your B set to catch up or catch up the extra 3 later. I trust the new count will not deter you from continuing with the chart.
Declaration for Phil W IND set A = PSALM 19:7-10 (incredible verses); 121:1-8 (what comfort!); JOHN 3:1-3; ROMANS 8:26-28 = 18 Verses
Did anybody notice that the 6 who completed the previous accountability chart all qualified as National Finalists!!!! Praise God! Congratulations to Bethany, Josiah, Kaitlyn, Matthew, Christian, and Nicolas. I hope you all and many others continue to join us on this new declaration chart!
All are welcome, even if you, like me, are not actually competing in the National Bible Bee Finals.
Please help me update my list of Finalists registered on memverse. Currently I have:
Seniors: Christian Alexander, Josiah DeGraaf, Laura Hedstrom, Grace Mieczkowski, Marie Morris, Bethany Pentimone, Alex Watt
Juniors: Nicolas Alexander, Zachary Baas, Hannah Del Toro, Clara Kho, Matthew Minica, Courtney Minica, Carissa Pentimone, Hannah Teeters, Kaitlyn Vredevoogd,
Primary: No confirmations, but I do have questions on siblings who made it. Are Felice Kho (P), David Pentimone (P), Thomas Teeters (P), and/or Melody Mieczkowski (S) on memverse?
Phil - Thanks for starting the list. I'm not able to answer your questions about other possible Memverse users, but I do have a few people that can be added to the list and a few other questions. Abigail Brigham (Abigail Grace on Memverse) and Olivia Guillard (Olivia G. on Memverse) are two other National Senior qualifiers. I'm relatively sure Emily Brigham (Junior National qualifier) is on Memverse also. Also, Prasanth Venigalla has participated in some of the quizzes, and I notice "Pallavi Sarah Venigalla" is a Primary National qualifier - probably a sibling (can someone clarify?). Anyone else not named in the list that qualified or knows a Memverse qualifier should please post a comment so we can have the correct information.
Congratulations to all of you!
Good job everyone! My brothers and their friend made it! So hopefully I will see some of you in Nashville!
Thanks, Alex. I added Abigail, Olivia, and Emily. What level is Prasanth?
I have typed out the NIV verses in word and will, Lord willing, have them available here on memverse in all 3 levels, as well as prompterized, on study stack and this time set up to make the Bible Bee camp game of unscrambling the long verses. I want to give you heads up so no one else duplicates the work.
If anyone has the verses in a word document or other helps in other translations, please let me know so I can post them. philjohn1558@yahoo.com
If people want to prompterize on their own, the website is www.productivity501.com/how-to-memorize-verbatim-text/294/
My sister Melody is not on Memverse..... but she is considering signing up so that she can participate in the chart. We'll let you know when she's here!
Congrats to all of you who worked hard over the summer to learn the Bible Bee verses!!! I'm amazed at how hard all the contestants worked at studying the Bible. It's wonderful to see you all so excited about learning the Word of God. To all of you who qualified for nationals, great job! If you didn't qualify, you've still earned a very priceless treasure by learning God's Word, and great job on your diligence in studying, nonetheless.
@PhilWalker--Thanks for all the encouragement that you've been to the BB contestants over the summer. I know my sisters were very blessed by it, as I'm sure many others were as well.
I might be joining you all in this challenge next year =)
Congratulations to all who made it! I'm looking forward to the new verses and 2 Peter!
Thanks for putting us up, Alex=) Yes, Emily has a Memverse account, although we both did most our studying offline. We enjoyed doing the quizzes on here! Elizabeth Ledford also is a Memverse user; like Emily and me, she did most of her studying offline but participated in several quizzes.
See you in Nashville=) I'm so excited to meet so many of you!!
Congratulations to everyone who qualified!!!!!! I can't wait to see all of you at Nationals. I placed 25th in the Senior Division!! My name is Darcy Arnall if you want to add me to the list.
Congratulations, everyone! Even if you didn't qualify for Nationals, it's still wonderful that you are learning God's Word! Keep up the hard work! I placed 65th in the Senior division.
Thank you, Mr. Walker, for letting us do this chart again! It was very helpful for last time! Also, David Pentimone is my little brother (P) but he is not on memverse.
Set A - Psalm 121:1-8, Matthew 6:25-34 = 18 verses
One more thing: Allison (I'm not sure of her last name) made it in the Junior Division. She is very new to Memverse, so I don't know if she will declare verses.
Congratulations to all the finalists!!! I'm Nina Camillone and I qualified in senior division. Also Prasanth Venigalla qualified as a Senior.
Congratulations to Everyone! And Alex, my brother Anand is in the Junior Group, my sister Pallavi is in the Primary division and I'm a Senior. By God's grace we all made it to nationals :)
Congratulations everyone!!!!! I am really excited!!!!!!!!!! Here is my first declaration:
Carissa P - MO - Set A - Exodus 34:2-9, 1 Samuel 2:7-8, Psalm 19:7-10 = 14 verses (I will do 12 next time).
Congratulations everyone! I'm so glad to see such a strong showing from MemVerse. I can't wait to meet everyone in Nashville. Let's keep encouraging one another and building each other up.
Kaitlyn V - MI - set B - Romans 8:1-2, Ephesians 1:11-19, Ephesians 4:32, Colossians 3:23-24, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 = 16 verses
Hey Darcy - My sister Anna and I sat with you at the Celebration Dinner last year! We had so much fun ;) We were excited to see that you are coming again this year!
Congratulations to all the National Qualifiers. I have some freinds that Qualified from my Local Bee.
Anyway. Just want to say Good Luck in memorizing! Have Fun.
Blessings,
Caleb Sterling
Grace, I was very happy to see that you and Melody both qualified for Nationals this year. Congrats!! I hope we can find some time to talk again this year. Say "hello" to Anna for me!
I'm a qualifying Senior too. =) Here's my first declaration:
Stephanie H. FL A = Psalm 121:1-8, Matthew 6:25-34
I added Rachel, Prasanth, Nina, and Darcy. Great to see so many Bible Bee finalists on memverse! I would love to see any and all who think it could be helpful and encouraging join us with our chart above.
Grace, it would be very nice to see both you and your sister Melody (and friend Darcy) join us.
Wonderful to see both Bethany and Carissa joining us. I praise God for that providential meeting your mom had with Jim Woychuk which has already brought forth such fruit. (Please pass on my congratulations to your brother David.)
Prasanth, Congratulations to being in another 3 finalists family. Your parents must be very thankful. Are your brother Anand and/or sister Pallavi on memverse?
Laura, I agree that there could be quite a Memverse "so nice to meet you offline" get together at Nationals. I don't believe I and my wife will be able to make it this year, but it is still possible.
Bethany, if you could track down Allison's last name, I would like to add her to the list.
Abigail, what division is your friend Elizabeth Ledford in?
Amy, thanks for your kind words and encouragement. I am curious who your sisters are, and yes, it would be good to hear if you decide to join in next year.
@PhilWalker--thank you for all the work you're doing on here!
Actually, I'm older sister to Bethany, Carissa, and David :) I'm so thankful to God for allowing them to participate in the BB and look forward to seeing how God will continue to use this in their life. I didn't participate in the BB this year, but I may next year, if the Lord allows, as that would be the last year that I'm in the age limit.
@Mr. Walker - Thank you for letting us do this chart again for our verses! I appreciate it greatly! Yes, I'm so glad that we got to meet the Woychuk's! They told us, that they will probably be going to Nationals, which means we will get to see them again! I passed your words on to David, and he said to tell you "thank you" :)
Okay, you can put down Allison now. "Allison Couch"
@Amy - Oh, I hope you do it next year! We would get to be Seniors together...how fun would that be?! Okay, it might be hard because we are using different translations (why don't you switch to ESV?!) and that we would be competing agianst each other...but it would still be tons of fun!
Congrats to all...and great job, sisters (Bethany and Carissa). :) :) :)
Still can't believe about little brother!!! :O
Stephanie, welcome to memverse and thanks for joining us on this Finalists accountability chart. Congratulations on making it to the Finals.
Thanks for clarifying, Amy. It looks like Daniel is another Pentimone sibling joining us on memverse. Is he the oldest? Did both of you join the family trip to my 2nd favorite Scripture memory event, the Scriptorium in Hannibal, MO. This past July was actually the first one I have missed in 5 years. I pray I and my wife will make future ones.
Phil W IND Set B declaration: Psalm 20:7; Rom 8:1-2; 10:9-13; and one of my all-time favorite Matthew 6:25-34 = 18 verses. How awesome is it that Bible Bee finalists are memorizing the MATTHEW passage! Is it possible that God might raise up a new breed of Christians who actually believe Jesus' radical words here? How the USA church could use believers who think that knowing the All-powerful, All-knowing, All-loving, multi-billionaire Creator God as our caring and ever watchful Father and having a guarenteed glorious, 1,000+ year retirement worth more than billions of dollars can give us more peace than thousands of dollars in the bank reserved for now and for the "all-important?" short pre-retirment here on earth.
Elizabeth Ledford is a senior. Her brothers, Andrew and Anthony, are juniors, but I'm not sure if they're on here.
How are everyone's new verses and 2 Peter going? Emily and I are enjoying the challenge of putting together our own Sword Study!
Darcy, I think I met you after the oral rounds--we were playing foosball in the family fun area=)
I have a question: how should we tag the new verses for nationals on memverse? Bible Bee 2011 Nationals Levels 1, 2, and 3? That's kind of long.
Abigail, you're right. We did meet after the oral rounds at last year's national competition. I greatly enjoyed our conversation and foosball (is that how you spell that word?) game and I hope we get the chance to talk again this year. See you in November
Congratulations everyone! I hope you guys have a great time at Nationals! And tell me how it goes...in detail! (After the Nationals of course...I'll remind you in a few months...)
I also want to know all about it (if we can't make the arrangements to come anyway)! We are really trying to see if we can come, but gas is so expensive! So, please all be praying that gas goes down and that my family can come! Thanks! I'll be praying for all of you as you study!
Btw, this is "Sarah BB". I switched back over to my personal account since I didn't make it to Nationals. Now I am adding all the verses I memorized to my personal account plus all of 1 Peter. I really want to memorize 1 Peter! :)
Zachary Baas - MI - Psalm 20:7;118:22-23, Romans 8:1-2, Ephesians 4:32, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18;5:18, 2 Timothy 4:1-2
@ Mr. Walker - National contestants should be memorizing 1) Primary 2-4, 2) Junior 4-8 and 3) Senior 6-12. If we are expected to do a declaration every day, wouldn't it be better to do 50 declaration of Primary, 2, Junior, 4 and Senior, 6? Just a thought.
@ Christian Alexander (or do you prefer us to call you by your screen name?) - What is your profile picture?
@ all - here is a GREAT website for looking up Greek words - http://www.eliyah.com/cgi-bin/strongs.cgi?file=greeklexicon&isindex (BTW - when you click the link, it will say "Result of search for "isindex". Just ignore that. The search box is under that statement. This is a great tool for those of you who don't have access to a Strong's Concordance. This website is for a Strong's Lexicon. For more descriptive results use www.blueletterbible.org .
I am also making a StudyStack on the key Greek words for 2 Peter and I will post it when it is finished.
Congratulations, Bible Bee Finalists! We're excited for you, and trust that God's word in your heart will bear fruit before, during, and after Bible Bee Finals. Hope to see you all there.
Grace and peace,
Jim, Susan, Faith, Jonathan, and Mary Woychuk
It would be fun to have a time and place for all the National qualifiers from Memverse to meet at Nationals. I think we all "know" each other pretty well, but yet most of us have not met each other.
Carissa P - MO - Set B - Psalm 20:7; Psalm 34:4 - 15 = 12 (I did 12 this time because I did 14 last time)
Yes, I hope we can see each other again Woychuk family. I really ejoyed meeting you all at the scriptoriam.
Set B - John 3:1-3, Luke 4:16-21 (the cross-refence in here is Isaiah 61:1-3), Psalm 20:7, Psalm 118:22-23, Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:39 = 18 verses!
@Woychuk's - I'm very excited that we will get to see you again at Nationals! I can't wait :)
@Kaitylyn - Yes, that sounds like a great idea. There are so many people on here that I really want to meet!
Okay, Mr. Walker, I will do nine verses for "C". I do plan to memorize 2 Peter but I'm going to do the actual BB verses first.
Matthew M - TX - Sets C & D: Psalm 20:7, Psalm 118:22-23, Romans 8:1-2, Ephesians 4:18-24, Ephesians 6:10-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 = 22 verses - 9 for C, and 13 for D
I hope you don't mind all these Double Declarations? I was very happy to figure out that I already know 75 of the Nationals verses, so I am trying to catch up to myself.
@Jess - you can go to http://www.biblebee.org/_pages/scores_nat.php
Kaitlyn, I think that is a great idea! I think the best place and time to do that will be the place that we will go after our oral quizzing. The Family Fun area, I think it was called last year?
Kaitlyn and Matthew - I agree it sounds like a good idea. Yes, Matthew, I think that's what it was called. Does anyone remember how that worked for the different age divisions? I don't recall where the Seniors are when the Juniors are going to Family Fun... I guess Seniors might be in there at the same time, which would work, unless they have to take the Written Test at that point... We have a lot of Juniors & Seniors using Memverse and going to Nationals (not any Primary contestants yet to our knowledge). We may need to wait for the schedule to come out to be able to plan in more detail...
@ Alex, Kaitlyn & Matthew - A GREAT idea!!
Btw - here is the link to the 2 Peter Key Greek words study - http://www.studystack.com/flashcards-674602 . Hope this helps.
As I remember, the schedule from last year was like this...
At 8:00, the Primaries had their Oral Test and the Juniors did their Written Test. Then at 9:00, the Seniors went to their Written Test and the Primaries and Juniors had a 30-minute break. At 9:30 the Primaries did the Written Test, and the Juniors did the Orals, while at 10:00 the Seniors had a 30-minute break and then went to Orals at 10:30. The competition was finished at 11:30, at which time all of the contestants were in the Family Fun Room.
Not 100% sure, just what this imperfect human mind can remember... :)
@ Matthew I went to the link and I'm a little confused. It says that I ranked 329th but does that mean in the nation or in the state? Because I noticed that someone in a different state got 329th also. thanks
Jess, that will mean 329th in the nation, but it is filtered also by your age division and track. It is a little confusing. :)
Okay, Thanks, @Racheal Crosswhite I placed 329th in the nation. This is the first year I have participated. What about you?
Matthew, your schedule looks right to me! The seniors and juniors didn't have overlapping time in the Family Fun area--all the seniors just had an extra hour to sleep and study=) But if anyone wants to meet there, they can. The only downside is that once you're in, you're not allowed out until all the rounds are over. Maybe it would be better to meet a little before one of the assemblies or something...it will be fun when we can see "face to face," as 1 Corinthians says (I think that over computer is even more dimly than in a mirror!). I was thinking it would be fun to get a group picture of all the Memverse users/ accountability forum members who are there!
Zachary, great to see you joining us here on the new declaration chart. I like your idea, but feel like some people might not like making so many declarations so we will keep it to 20 declarations.
Kaitlyn, a gathering for Memverse users at Nationals is a fantastic idea. We would love to include a picture of all memverse users who attend in the December newsletter. I believe memverse will have a booth at Nationals, so that would be one natural place to meet for a group picture (as well as a great place to bring all your new "not yet memverse users" friends :) We will share more on this as we learn more. We will most likely be looking to set up a schedule of volunteers to help us host the booth and enthusiastically share about memverse to visitors.
Kaitlyn, are you trying to start a new trend here: Declaring 10, then 16, then another 16, then planning to go back to 10 rather than the conventional 13 each time that other juniors are doing. Should I have picked a different number than the "unlucky" 13?
Phil Walker IND set C = ROMANS 12:6-12 (12:9-12 has long been my favorite passage to encourage sports team I coached to memorize together); ROMANS 12:14-18 (I love these verses, but wish they didn't exclude ROMANS 12:13 which is surely missing from much of our "Live in a bubble and be afraid of strangers, especially poor strangers" Christian culture); 2 CORINTHIANS 4:16 (enjoy more and more as I get older, and yet with Jacky's and God's help, feel younger every day.); 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-21 (May we with confidence share with others the world's greatest "exchange program" in history found in 2 CCORINTHIANS 5:21)
Sarah, I will join you in praying that you and your family will be able to get to Nationals. Can I ask where you live?
@Mr. Walker - I don't know if you saw my comment farther up...but, I found out Allison's last name. You can put her on the list of Juniors. Her name is "Allison Couch"
Here's my next set...
B = Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:39, Luke 4:16-21, John 3:1-3, Romans 8:26-28 = 18 verses
Hmmm... I thought that I had posted my declaration here already, but I suppose...
Set A: 1 Samuel 2:7-8, Psalm 34:4-19--18 verses
Mr. Walker, We live in Louisiana - about 45 minutes north of New Orleans. It would be about an 8 hour drive without stops. Im the oldest of 6, so it would be a lot longer than that. Also, you have to pay for EVERYTHING at Nationals if you're not a contestant. I don't think we'll be able to make it, but if we do go, I'd love to help at your memverse table! ;)
@Phil Walker - Hi Mr. Walker, Yes, I am the oldest of the 7 Pentimone siblings. Too old to compete in the Bible Bee :( In fact, I unfortunately won't even be able to attend Nationals due to school :( :( Nice to meet you, and thanks so much for all you do on Memverse!
@Woychucks - Great to see you on Memverse! Hope all is well. Still thinking about how much I enjoyed the Scriptorium!
Daniel
Carissa P - MO - Set D - Psalm 84:4-7; Psalm 116:12-14; Psalm 118:22-23; Isaiah 53:1 = 13 Verses
LauraH - NE - Set A - Exodus 34:2-9, 1 Samuel 2:7-8, Psalm 19:7-10, Psalm 20:7 = 15 verses. I will do more next time to make up. :)
Also, Mr. Walker, I memorized 2 Peter previous to the Bible Bee...so I guess I will just stop declaring verses sometime before I get to 'T'.
Kaitlyn V - MI - set D - Exodus 34:2-9, 1 Samuel 2:7-8 = 10 verses (I'll try to do 13 next time, Mr. Walker)
I have decided that I will be praying for all Memverse contestants going to the Bible Bee. May the Lord bless you all. Please tell others about Memverse while you are at the NBB! May the Lord truly bless all of you. Good luck !!
Set C - John 3:10-21, Isaiah 53:1-4, = 16 (Next time I'll do 20)
@God's Bondslave - Thank you for praying for us all!
@ChiefOfSinners - Congratulations on reaching level 16! EDIT - Now, Congratulations on reaching level 18! :)
Laura, welcome to the accountability chart. Great to see you join us. You are welcome to declare the 2 PETER verses even if you have memorized them in the past. Maybe you could quote some each declaration as a review, or just declare them at the end to make sure you still have them sharp.
God's Bondslave, I and my wife Jacky will also join you in praying for all the Memverse contestants in the Bible Bee finals, and especially for those who declare on this chart.
Daniel, Hi. Thanks for introducing yourself. I'm sorry I missed meeting your family at the Scriptorium. I am curious what school you are at. One of my most passionate prayer request is that Scripture memory and an authentic treasuring of the Bible would become a more normal part of Christian colleges and seminaries and Christian groups on secular campuses. I have become more and more aware and saddened by the negative snowball effect damage caused by having graduates of Christian colleges and seminaries not know or love Scripture. Being here in the Far East it is obvious to see much of the Christian culture trying to copy all the latest and greatest Scripture trivializing trends, programs, initiatives and teaching coming out of the USA church.
Memverse will soon start a school leaderboard. Do you have some friends you can encourage to memorize on your campus, and maybe even together consider an outreach to share the treasure of Scripture with others on your campus.
@ Josiah Congratulations on memorizing your 1000th verse that is a huge milemark. Once again it is a great joy to be able to memorize the Scrptures with all of you.
Here's my set for C... John 3:10-21 and Acts 26:12-18 = 19 verses.
I'll submit 17 next time. =)
Victoria, very good to hear that you are in China. I am close by in the Philippines on my way to Indonesia. Both countries have many Chinese active in the church. I would love to go to China someday!! What does your family do there in China? Do you attend the International school or have other places you can share about memverse? I would love to see more active members from China and Peru from you and Briana spreading the word.
Sarah, thanks for the details. We will keep praying for your family to be able to go. Even though an 8 hours drive is not close, it could be farther. Do you have friends you can stay with in Nashville or other housing options near the Nationals that could cut down the cost a little?
We mostly do discipleship type work. We are home schooled, but we do know quite a few people from the International school here. Also I am planning to tell some Chinese friends who know English quite well.
Hey, I'm not in the lead in my group now! So I guess I can do another double declaration. :)
Matthew M - TX - Sets E & F: Ephesians 1:11-19, Colossians 3:1-4, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, 1 Timothy 1:2, 2 Timothy 4:1-2, Titus 2:11-13, James 2:17-18, 1 John 2:28 = 26 verses
EDIT: @Phil: You never put down my "D" declaration on the chart. I think that was my fault, because I declared two letters when I was only supposed to do one, being in the lead in my group. You probably forgot about it, having so many other things to think about. Sorry about that. :)
(Christian Alexander) Declaration A: Exodus 34:2-9; 1 Samuel 2:7-8; Psalm 19:7-10; Psalm 20:7; Romans 8:26-28 = 18 verses.
Declaration B: Psalm 34:4-19; Romans 8:1-2 = 18 verses.
Glad you could join us on the chart, Laura and Christian!
Set D - Acts 20:35, Romans 8:26-28, Romans 9:17, Romans 8:1-2, Acts 26:12-18, 2 Peter 3:12-18 = 21
@Mr. Walker - It's kind of hard trying to come out with 18 verses only each time, so I hope you don't mind that sometimes I do a little less and sometimes a little more. Next time, I will declare 17.
I'll be jumping into the chart soon! Still trying to recover from vacation and dive into all the activity that comes with the start of a new school year :)
Christian, great to see you joining our accountability chart again. Is your brother planning a new chart debut soon?
Yes, Bethany, we are flexible.
Matthew, please forgive my forgetting to post your D set. We are still not yet posting double declarations for anyone close to the lead. Do you believe in 2nd chances? I trust I will remember to post your F set tomorrow.
Grace, we will look forward to your declarations. Is there still a chance your sister will join us?
Daniel, did you see my earlier post? I am curious what school you are going to?
Phil W IND set D = 2 CORIN 9:6-8 (One of my favorite life principles: If only we could fully believe the outrageous verse 8 to inspire us to wholeheartedly live by 6-7); 12:7-10; EPHESIANS 5:15-21 (one of my favorite NIV Scripture songs is this sung to "Doe a Deer". I wonder if it would work in other translations.) COLOSSIANS 3:1-4 = 18 verses
Mr. Walker--yes, I will be joining soon. It may take a while, though--I have so much going on around here--mostly because I've committed to so much here on Memverse. :) Thanks, everyone for all the ideas, insights, etc, that have pushed me to dive deeper into my faith. It's great to have a second community of believers striving after the same goal, encouraging me and each other as we go (the first one, of course, is my church ;) ). Since being on Memverse, I have committed to memorizing the Bible, memorizing 1 Peter and Romans some time before next year is over, and reading ten chapters of the Bible a day, and I haven't regretted a minute of it! I have grown discouraged a few times (especially after school began), but I know that this studying and working will bring me closer to God and will reap eternal benefits!
Thank you so, so, so much for creating Memverse, Andy, and for continuing it, everyone else! I don't know what would have happened had God not brought Memverse into my life. You might not realize just how much this great website has done, Andy! Keep up the good work!
My sister Melody just got her Memverse account yesterday! She'll be here soon as well :)
Yes, I certainly believe in second chances! The book of Jonah is a great example of second chances. My sister has memorized that book before! I have to ask you for a second chance, too, because I keep posting too many declarations while in the lead. I won't do any today, and while I am in the lead, from now on I will only do one per day. :)
@Phil Walker - Hi Mr. Walker, Sorry for my slow response! I've been so busy recently. In answer to your question, I am part of Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City. I'm working on my RN degree - I'll graduate in May! Certainly there is a lot of work to do on college campuses. I have been and will continue to keep my eye out for opportunities to share truth on my campus... and promote study of the Scripture whenever possible. Certainly, the Bible is the sure method of revival - sola scriptura!
Well, good to meet you online, and I will try to do a better job at responding to comments.
Daniel
Me and my brother made it in junior, my brother was 10th and I was 27th. My brother is also an Alternate in Primary.
EDIT: My brother just posted above me
Alethea - On comments: they are updated on each blog post every five minutes (it's something called "caching"). We're looking to improve how that works. And, just so you know, I saw your comment on the other post and removed the link for the old quiz. It's not automatic. :) Thank you for the reminder. I'll try to remember to do more quickly next time.
Kaitlyn V - MI - set E - Psalm 69:4-9, Psalm 116:12-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 = 13 verses :)
Alethea and Kerestel, Congratulations for qualifying for Nationals. I hope you enjoy quizzing and sharpening each other as you prepare for Nashville in November. Feel free to share anything here to get discussion going among the Finalists. If you think it would be helpful to you, we would love for either or both of you to join us on the Accountability/Encouragement chart above as you make your way through the new verses and 2 PETER.
Kaitlyn, thanks for ending the declaring draught. I was starting to wonder if we had seen our last declaration for the year.
Phil W IND Set E for EPHESIANS 4:18-24;; 6:10-18; COLOSSIANS 3:23-24 = 18 verses
@Mr. Walker, thanks! We do enjoy quizzing and sharpening each other! (And arguing about who's going to win first place), ;) I would like to join! . . . But, I don't know how!
Alethea, to declare verses and join the chart, list the references for 13 of the finalist verses you have memorized. Also give us the state you are from.
Alethea and Kerestel, great to have both of you join us on the chart. Alethea, since, you did 16 verses this time, you can do 10 verses next time to get back on track.
Sorry I haven't done this yet--
Nicolas A OH: Exodus 34:2-9; 1 Samuel 2:7-8; Psalm 19:7-10 = 14 verses.
Sorry I have fourteen--I'll try to do twelve one of these times.
Kaitlyn Vredevoogd - MI - set F - Psalm 20:7, Isaiah 58:11, Acts 12:1-5, Romans 14:17-19, 2 Timothy 4:1-2, 1 John 2:28 = 13 verses
Congratulations fellow National qualifiers! I am new to Memverse and already enjoy it tremendously! Thanks Phil and Alex for all the work you guys have done. Please let me know how I can join the live Bible Bee quizzes on Fridays.
Thomas - Congratulations! Thanks for asking about the quizzes. You can find more information on them here: http://www.memverse.com/blog/main/Post_Bible_Bee. The next quiz is September 23 at 4:00 PM EDT. Other than what is in that post, you just need to make sure that the Bible version you have set in your Account Profile is what you want to use for the quiz. Hope you can make it!
Thanks Alex! I am looking forward to Friday and to Nationals. I hope to meet you there!
Please forgive me, Mr. Walker, for not doing this sooner!
Bethany P MO: (Set E) 2 Corinthians 3:12-18, 2 Corinthians 4:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21, Hebrews 10:36-39 = 17 (I did 21 last time, so that's why I did 17 this time. Hope you don't mind!)
Laura H - NE - Set E: Luke 4:16-21, Luke 6:35-38, Romans 12:14-18, John 3:1-3 = 18 verses.
Christian A - OH - Set C: Psalm 64:4-9; Psalm 84:1-7; Psalm 116:12-14; Psalm 118:22-23 = 18 verses.
Okay, I'm not sure how this is supposed to work, but I'm going to declare the verses of 2 Peter that I've studied so far. For each of these verses I have looked up all key Greek words and cross-references, and I've read John Gill's commentary on the verse:
2 Peter 1:1-9
Since I'm doing a verse a day, I may end up trying to memorize 2 Peter while I'm at it. I memorized Chapter 1 verses 3-8 for the Bible Bee already, so that part's taken care of. And I've quite easily memorized verses 1 and 2 as well, so once I've memorized verse 9, I'm well on my way to memorizing the whole book!
Matthew M - TX - Set H: Acts 12:1-5, 2 Corinthians 9:6-8, 2 Timothy 4:1-2, 3 John 1:2-4 = 13 verses
Kerestel L MN Isaiah 53:1-12 = 12 verses
Here are the verses I've memorized of 2 Peter so far 1:1-11
Bethany P MO (Set F): Ephesians 5:15-21, Titus 2:3-5, Hebrews 9:26-28, Hebrews 10:10-12, 1 John 3:17, = 17 (Next time I'll do 19. Hope you don't mind, Mr. Walker!)
Studying 2 Peter is coming along very well. Our mom is going through it with us about every day. I think we gotten to about verse 15! It's being very interesting...and I'm REALLY enjoying studying it! It's such a wonderful book! I hope to have all my Senior and Primary verses learned by tomorrow night!
*sniff* Congratulations everyone! Can't wait to actually find out who the National Competitors are!
Now if you'll exuse me, I must go find a box of tissues...*tears* jk :)