Pennsylvania Delaware District Council

What is Junior Bible Quiz?

What ministry is:

able to teach a child more scriptures than the average adult in one short season;
able to teach a child to prefer one another through team work;
able to discipline a child to speak ONLY during the appropriate time;
able to help a child to develop a devotional life;
able to teach a child that the only time you interrupt an adult is to quote God’s Word.

Give up? It is Junior Bible Quiz!

From a children’s pastor’s point of view, nothing thrills me more than to hear children quoting the Word of God. No other ministry helps disciple and develop a child as quickly and as thoroughly as Junior Bible Quiz. The wonderful thing about JBQ is that it affects those that come in contact with it. The Bible says that Faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the Word of God.

God’s Word is living, active and sharper than a double edged sword. When the Word is being quoted, it is going forth with power and life. All within ear shot of Bible quizzers are blessed just by hearing God’s Word proclaimed.

If you are not involved in Junior Bible Quiz and want more information, you may contact me (Pastor Trish Gunn) at:
Wilmington First Assembly of God - 302 764-7877
Or at tgunn@wfa.org

JBQ Forms & Downloads:

2007 JBQ Schedule - .pdf
2007/2008 JBQ Team Registration Form - .pdf
JBQ Newsreel Final Edition 2006/2007 - .pdf
JBQ Finals Newsreel - .pdf
JBQ Meet 3 Newsreel - .pdf

Junior Bible Quiz (JBQ) was created and designed to help children develop a love for the Bible and an understanding that its truth can guide their lives daily. Junior Bible Quiz offers a fun, exciting way to motivate children to understand the all-important truths in God’s Word. Through cooperative learning, children work together on teams to learn and understand the questions and answers from the Bible Fact-Pak. Then using cooperative competition the children meet with other teams for a fun quizzing match. There are twenty questions in a match, with two teams of quizzers trying to beat each other to the buzzers to get the first shot at the answers. It has been said that JBQ is the fastest growing discipleship program in children’s ministry.

In its beginning, the development of team quizzing was left to each individual district. Among the pioneers were Arkansas, Pennsylvania-Delaware, Illinois, and Minnesota. The first region to have a structured tournament was North Central in 1981. About the same time, Dan Rector and John Crabtree, children's pastors in Minnesota and Illinois, started the first multi-district invitational. It involved teams from only three states.

This small invitational tournament has grown into the national festival involving over 60 teams from across the nation. Dan Rector still oversees the festival. In 1994, the National Festival was given full endorsement by the national office. At this time a National Advisory Committee was instituted. It is comprised of representatives of each of the eight regions, the two leaders of the festival, and ex officio members from the Division of Christian Education. This committee has authority to guide the program and make any necessary rules changes.