Texas Bible Bowl 2014

As you know, 31 youth and adults from McDermott traveled last weekend to the Texas Bible Bowl competition.  This weekend 200+ youth from congregations in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas met up in Marble Falls, Texas for the Texas Bible Bowl.  Twelve of those youth were from McDermott Road. Our youth were accompanied by 19 McDermott parents, grandparents, and extended family. 

In preparation, these McDermott youth spent an hour and half in classroom instruction for 26 weeks! That is time outside of our McDermott Bible Class schedule.  It was 39 hours of instruction over the Life of Moses, which included 51 chapters from the books of Exodus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.  These youth also spent time at home with their families; reading, studying, listening to these 1,622 verses plus, completing 191 pages of Life of Moses Bible home work of over the course of the last six months!

Below are the incredible results of my McDermott kiddos!  

Elementary 6^th Grade and Below

Elementary aged youth grades 3^rd – 6^th compete on an individual level.  Our Elementary age kids from McDermott and their accomplishments included: 

Zayle Gordon - Honorable Mention
Noah Sears - Honorable Mention
Joey Georgen - 7th Place
Robert Sanderford - 6th Place
Matthew Kearney - 4th Place
Zachary Sanderford - 2nd Place

Jr. High Division Grades 7^th-9th

In the Junior High Team Division, (Grades 7^th-9^th), McDermott took one Experienced Team (Experienced meaning they had competed in a Texas Bible Bowl or National Bible Bowl before); our McDermott Team took 3^rd Place, with:

Roy Duncan
Ethan Rhodes
& Zachary Sanderford (playing up from 5^th grade)
along with +1 Member of Magnolia Church of Christ

In the Individual Competition in this division the following youth competed with their results:

Ethan Rhodes – Honorable Mention
Roy Duncan – 4^th Place
Ryan Duncan – 2^nd Place
Abigail Kirkwood – 1^st Place

Sr. High Division Grades 10^th-12th

In the Senior High Team Division (Grades 10^th-12^th), McDermott took one In-Experienced Team (In-Experienced meaning they had never competed in Texas Bible Bowl or National Bible Bowl before), our McDermott Team took 3^rd Place, with:
Caleb Smiley
along with +3 first time competitors of the Magnolia Church of Christ

Individually, in this division, Caleb Smiley also took 10^th place.

In the Senior High Team Division, (Grades 10^th-12^th), McDermott took one Experienced Team (Experienced meaning they had competed in a Texas Bible Bowl or National Bible Bowl before); our McDermott Team took 1^st Place, with:

Richard Duncan
Ryan Duncan (playing up from 9^th grade)
Abigail Kirkwood (playing up from 7^th grade)
Caleb Kirkwood

In the Individual Competition in this division the following youth competed with their results:

Richard Duncan – 4^th Place
Caleb Kirkwood – 1^st Place

In the overall division, (including adults and coaches) Caleb Kirkwood took First Place answering 232 questions out of 250 correctly.

I am so proud of these kids hard work! I have loved every bit of my last 27 weeks coaching these AMAZING kiddos!