Swordsman Challenge is a Bible memory program specifically developed for Kindergarten through 6th graders. During this 3-year program your child will learn many portions of scripture that will help shape their faith and ultimately encourage them to surrender their lives to Christ.
We have selected key Bible passages that focus on God’s love, salvation, prayer, obedience and praise. It is our hope that you and your child can work together as a family to memorize scripture.
We pray that we will be able to build on the foundation you are laying at home. As your child memorizes God’s Word, he/she will be able to live out 2 Timothy 2:15 (ESV), “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”
It is our earnest desire that you participate with us by encouraging your child to learn the scriptures and that God may richly bless your family as you study together.
Verses are assigned weekly for children and parents to work on together. We ask that the verses be recited within a month of the date they were assigned. If you recite all the weekly verses, you will be awarded with a ribbon at the end of the year. Children who recite weekly verses will earn a prize from the Prize Box. If parents recite the weekly verse, children will earn an additional prize from the Prize Box.
Super Swordsman Bonus Challenge
Bonus Passages (see the Super Swordsman Challenges) add an extra challenge to the Swordsman’s Club. Children who complete the Bonus Passages, in addition to the weekly verses, will be honored during our Medal Ceremony in the Main Sanctuary. They will also receive a special reward after completion. Children can recite Bonus Passages any Sunday throughout the year. All Bonus Passages must be completed by June 8th.Children will earn a Special Prize for every completed Bonus Passage.
5 can recite the passages at the Children’s Ministry table at any time during the year, when they feel ready. They should complete at least 1-2 passages a month to finish the Elite Super Swordsman Challenge on time. Children who complete the Elite Super Swordsman Challenge will be honored with a special medal at our medal ceremony in the Main Sanctuary. They will also receive an invitation to our Super Secret Outing. They must complete all required passages by Sunday Junehey will earn a Special Prize for every completed Challenge Passage.
5th and 6th graders also have the option of participating in the Super Swordsman Challenge. The Elite Super Swordsman Challenge requires children to memorize not only the weekly verses and the six bonus passages, but to memorize an additional 6 Elite Passages.
“Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”
2 Timothy 2:15
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Isaiah7:14
14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Isaiah9:6
6For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Numbers 6:24-26
24 The Lord bless you and keep you;25 the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;26 the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Corinthians 15:55-58
55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
Psalm 103:8-10
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.9 He will not always chide, nor will he keep his anger forever.10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,
Psalm 103:11-12
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Acts
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John
Jude
Revelation
John 14:1-6 (He is the way)
John 15:1-2 (He is the Vine)
Proverbs 3:5-6 (Trust in the Lord)
Ephesians 3:20-21 (Filled in the fullness of God)
Romans 13:8-10 (Love)
Ephesians 3:14-21 (Filled in the fullness of God-Extended)
2 Timothy 3:14-17 (Scripture Authority)
Romans 8:34-39 (Gods everlasting love)
Matthew 22:37-39 (Love the Lord)
Philippians 2:14-15 (Be the light)
Psalm 139:13-14 (Wonderful are your works)
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