Our local quizzing program made a
complete turn around in the 1970-1971 season. The boys who had dominated the
program from the beginning had all graduated and the girls took over. We went
from a male dominated program to a female dominated program in one big fell
swoop. While several guys were local quizzers, only one kept punching into the
top five.
Any youth pastor wants to know
what will happen when your first core group of youth graduates. Well, we got
bigger and better and certainly even more active. Even more leaders sprang
forward and we created a leadership team for Sunday school to match the one for
AYF. Like Melanie said in an email, “We didn’t get in trouble because we were
too busy.” Probably, but I wanted it to be meaningful.
The AYF Valley News began
publishing in the fall of 1970, so my knowledge and the official records of
what the team did and who were the top five quizzers is only partial for
1969-1970. I don’t even have a photo that I can find. It’s got to be here
somewhere, but it didn’t make an album and so is loose. Those are the hardest
ones to find. Besides, I lost most of my memory when Della passed away in 1992,
Rather than writing from my memory I’m going to let the AYF Valley News report what happened from that year.
Each year we had two huge competitions. The first was always a meet at the Canadian Bible College Youth Conference with the potential of meeting teams from across Canada. Later we faced only the district teams. It looks like someone spilled coffee on this paper, but it is still readable and can give you that "good morning feeling."
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| Clyde Walker, Glendene Summach, Errol Rempel, Brenda Ratzlaff, Jan Abramoff, Bonnie Peters |
And 1971 made three. Wearing red and white was life waving the Canadian flag. It was an incredible run with a tremendous group of quizzers, 40 or 50 in total. Jan is the only three time International champion having quizzed on all of those first three champion teams. Brenda was the top quizzer at Internationals.
2 comments:
Luke 9:56 "....the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. " Taken out of the Bible in the NIV. They do this over and over, Clyde. Why did we let them ?!
For we are not as many which corrupt the word of God... - 2nd Corinthians.
1st Corinthians talks about how we are saved, the NIV changes that to- we are being saved. Our Salvation happens right away it's not Progressive like the NIV wants us to believe and much of the world believes. Amos says there's going to be a famine of the word of God someday I believe that day is here. Will you support us going back to the King James Bible so the future Generations of children can have the word of God again before the Rapture hits ?!!!! With respect, John Stewart, Cottage Grove, Minnesota.
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