Michigan Trip--Day 3--Sabbath Afternoon

The Pioneer Memorial Church just before the afternoon program.

The sign for our team.

Our team

Our captain (with the other team captains) holding a first place certificate.

The Ky-Tn Conference representation--Area Coordinators, coach, and team.

The afternoon program began at 2:30 with orientation. With almost twice as many teams this year as last year, that took a bit longer.

The actual Bible Achievement program began shortly after 3:00. There were 90 questions with a short break after question 45. Each question was read twice (also shown on large screens)--teams were then given 10 seconds to confer and record their answers. If the team was not finished writing when time was called, they had a flag on a stick that their captain could raise and more time was given to finish writing. Each team had a judge (whose job was to compare the team answer to the answer given on the screen and determine whether they received the points) and a score keeper (whose job it was to record and tally the points) and a runner (a pre-Pathfinder age child whose job it was to take answers to a panel of judges--University professors--who judged any answer that didn't match the screen answer). As the afternoon wore on and we got closer to 6:00, several questions were dropped from the roster. The questions wrapped up about 6:00--then while the panel judges tallied the scoresheets, Pastor Dodge talked about his plans for a permanent Pathfinder museum. Uncle Dan from Your Story Hour also made an appearance.

The scores were finalized, the team captains were called into another room to line up in alphabetical order by club name. Then Pastor Dodge read out the club names and their rank (first place, second place). Forty clubs received a first place score (see note about scoring in original Day 3 post), and five clubs received a second place score. Our team received a first place score--the first they had received in the three years they had made it to the NAD level.

It was about 7:00 p.m. when the program ended--we then went downstairs for supper.