North American Division - Adventurer Bible Games

The official web page for the Adventurer Bible Games appears to be https://www.clubministries.org/adventurers/adventurer-bible-game/

We have not prepared materials specifically for this year's Adventurer Bible Games, but the official ABG site usually has good study materials. However, there is a growing interest among some clubs in the North American Division to participate in TED's Adventurer Bible Experience. This enables families with both Adventurers and Pathfinders to all study the same book. The rules of ABE are the same as PBE except that TED selects a subset of the PBE verses and the tests are shorter. This is an excellent approach to adapt the PBE for Adventurers.

Help for ABE Coaches

If this is your first time coaching an ABE team, you will want to learn from the success of others. If you have been a successful coach, you can help other teams overcome their challenges by participating in ABE Coach discussion groups. Please join a discussion group:

• Telegram: Unofficial NAD ABE Coaches Forum https://t.me/+W7i2OMApWIMxNzk5

Trans-European Division - Adventurer Bible Experience

The official web page for the TED Adventurer Bible Experience appears to be https://ted.adventist.org/youth/adventurers/adventurer-bible-experience-abe/

The Ready Answers Bible Memorization Program is designed to help you memorize Bible passages easily and quickly. It is based on many well-proven strategies for memorizing. From this page you can get our material designed to help prepare for tests on portions of the Biblical book of the gospel of Mark. This should be helpful for tests such as the 2027 Adventurer Bible Experience. It is also helpful for any study of these chapters. On other web pages at this site, we also have memorization guides for other books of the Bible.

Team Organization

You will probably want to consider carefully who on the team should be responsible for which portions of this year’s material. Since some chapters are smaller than others and some books are smaller than others. This year there is very little similarity between verses, but if there are, they can be difficult for one person to be ready to answer questions on both. Assigning students to each learn the same number of chapters might not be the best strategy since some chapters might be significantly longer or shorter than other chapters. The tables below show our recommended assignments. The goals we had were:

• Each assignment should be about the same size as the other assignments. This is to help spread the effort equally across the team members.
• To simplify remembering who is responsible for which verse, each student should generally be responsible for as few blocks of verses as possible. This is often in conflict with the other goals so a balance must be selected.
• We consider if the content of two verses is similar. We try to assign these verses to different team members, because many people have difficulty memorizing two passages that are nearly identical. This year there aren't any good examples of this. They have almost the same message and use almost the same words, but they are not identical.
• Each verse should be assigned to one student as a primary responsibility and to a second student as a secondary responsibility. This enables the students to consult with each other during the tests and help each other remember the details required to answer the questions. Also, if one student unexpectedly is not able to participate, the remaining team members are prepared to answer the questions.
• Each student should have a study partner that leverages the primary and secondary responsibilities. This way, if the full team can't get together for every practice session, pairs of students can meet and study effectively.

We've given sample student names (both a male and a female name) for each assignment. Suppose you have a team with 2 girls and 4 boys and you the ask the girls to take the assignments for Ruth and Mary and ask the boys to take the assignments for Aquilla, Adam, Zecharriah, and Abraham. Then Ruth and Aquilla will be partners, Mary and Abraham will be partners, and Zecharriah and Adam will be partners. The table below shows that Ruth has the primary responsibility for Mark 1-3, and Aquilla has secondary responsibility for these same chapters.

Fund Raising

Some teams plan for success by raising the funds early to ensure they will be able to go the the final TED testing level. One very successful fund-raising idea is to have a 30-day verse memorizing event. Students can ask sponsors to contribute $1 per verse for 30 verses that they learn within those 30 days. Some people even pledge to give $2 per verse if they learn 60 verses. This not only funds the trips, it also can be a great incentive to get ready for the tests.