MARY, OUR MOTHER: The 2009 National Bible Bee Results Are In

Monday, November 16, 2009

The 2009 National Bible Bee Results Are In

Contestants Quote Scripture and Take Home $260,000 in Prize Money

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 /Christian Newswire/ -- On November 4-6, 300 contestants gathered in Washington, D.C. for the first annual National Bible Bee, a motivating Bible memory competition for children and youth from 7 to 18 years of age. Nine contestants emerged as contest winners and received the following awards:

Senior Age Group (Ages 15 -18) Prize Money
1st Place Daniel Staddon (Salem, WV) $100,000
2nd Place Truman Falkner (Kansas City, MO) $ 25,000
3rd Place Ellen Lawrence (Madison, AL) $ 15,000

Junior Age Group (Ages 11-14) Prize Money
1st Place Isaac Ward (Castle Creek, NY) $ 50,000
2nd Place Jessica Hofmeister (Warsaw, IL) $ 20,000
3rd Place Sophie Haire (Havre De Grace, MD) $ 10,000

Primary Division Winners: Ages 7-10 Prize Money
1st Place Rebecca Horning (Raytown, MO) $ 25,000
2nd Place Rhonda Grakov (Guilderland, NY) $ 10,000
3rd Place Courtney Minica (San Antonio, TX) $ 5,000

The National Bible Bee is sponsored by the Shelby Kennedy Foundation. Organizers say that the National Bible Bee is much more than a competition - that at its core, it is all about encouraging young people to memorize the Scriptures so that they may learn, speak, and live out their Christian faith.

Local Bible Bee contests were conducted throughout the United States on Saturday, September 12, 2009. One hundred finalists from each of three age categories were invited to advance to the National Bible Bee, a world-class competition that was held in Washington, D.C. at the J.W. Marriott, a block and a half from the White House. In order to win the contest, participants answered Bible knowledge questions and recited memorized scripture passages.

If you would like more information about the National Bible Bee or would like to schedule an interview with Mike Farris, the President of the Shelby Kennedy Foundation, or Mark Rasche, the Foundation's Executive Director, please call Kit Rasche at (619) 401- 0385, or email Kit at krasche@biblebee.org.

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Saint Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Monday, November 16, 2009

The 2009 National Bible Bee Results Are In

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