Leadership Training For Christ Northwest (LTCNW)

Leadership Training for Christ (LTC) is for all youth from 3rd – 12th grades. LTC equips our youth in Bible knowledge, leadership and a Christian servant-hood.
 
Our youth work diligently for 5+ months on a variety of pre-convention (individual) and convention (group) events. They also study scriptures from the current years’ theme and prepare for the Bible bowl at the Northwest Regional convention in Richland, WA on April 14-16, 2023.
 
If you have questions or your child would like to join LTC, please complete the below form and you will be contacted by our congregations LTC Coordinator, Brett Nowlin.
  • BIBLE CLASS TEACHING
    • Purpose: This event helps and encourages young people to develop creative teaching skills.
  • BIBLE READING
    • Purpose: To provide an opportunity for young people to develop skills through the oral reading of the Scripture. This event is for grades 7-12.
  • CHILDREN’S BOOK
    • Purpose: To encourage the use of creative writing and drawing in a Christian arena.
  • CHRISTIAN ESSAY
    • Purpose: This event challenges individuals to use the written word to communicate God’s message. Their writing content, style, and message should reflect a respect for the importance and value of communicating God’s message in written form.
  • CHRISTIAN FICTION
    • Purpose: In today’s world there is a need for fiction that conveys a Christian message as an alternative to fiction that is often atheistic and amoral in nature. This event encourages the growth of creative writers to use their skill in a Christian arena.
  • CHRISTIAN PODCAST
    • Purpose: As the Internet becomes more and more a part of our society’s daily life, it is becoming important for a church to have a podcast promoting its ministries, focus and reliance on the Bible. The purpose of this event is to provide opportunity and experience to individuals wishing to serve in developing in this new communication medium. The purpose of the Christian podcast is to challenge the participant in using a media platform that is powerful in today’s world where time is of the essence. The participant is to design and present a podcast(s) that would reach out and encourage people with the message of Christ in relation to the current year’s LTCNW theme.
  • CHRISTIAN WEBSITE
    • Purpose: As the Internet becomes more and more a part of our society’s daily life, it is becoming important for a church to have a website promoting its ministries, focus and reliance on the Bible. The purpose of this event is to provide opportunity and experience to individuals wishing to serve in developing in this new communications medium.
  • CHURCH BULLETIN
    • Purpose: The church bulletin is the first and maybe the only printed material a visitor may receive when visiting a local church. The bulletin can be an extremely effective communication tool for the local church. Creating a bulletin that gets read and used can be an art. This project is intended
      to help young people develop the skills to use creative ideas and techniques to communicate information about their church to both the visitor and the regular attendees. The hope is to show another area of the church that needs creative people to be leaders.
  • COMMUNION MEDITATION
    • Purpose: Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us. The message of His death, burial and resurrection is the foundation of Christianity. To remember the importance of God’s sacrifice of his son, Jesus provided us with the Lord’s Supper. This event encourages our youth to express their comprehension of the relevance of Christ’s death to all aspects of the Christian life. Though this is a written event, it should be written as if giving a talk in preparation for the Lord’s Supper.
  • DAILY DEVOTIONAL
    • Purpose: This event is designed to encourage spiritual discipline and growth in the participants as they continue to serve the Lord with their talents and gifts. It promotes active commitment and consistency in Prayer, Study, and Journaling in the participant’s walk with God.
  • EVANGELISM/OUTREACH CHALLENGE
    • Purpose: To encourage Christian young people to reach out and teach others the gospel of Christ; To promote the need of reaching the lost and bringing them to the knowledge of God’s Word.
  • POETRY
    • Purpose: This event develops the ability to express spiritual feelings and thoughts in the form of rhyme and verse.
  • POWERPOINT
    • Purpose: To develop and demonstrate creative and technical talents by creating a PowerPoint presentation.
  • PRAYER CHALLENGE
    •  Purpose: To promote the habit of praying; To encourage recognition of the constant need for prayer as a part of our relationship with God. To promote the use of prayer journals to keep track of our conversations with the Father, and promote a scheduled, ongoing “quiet time” with God,
      which is so often consumed by other activities.
  • RADIO/MEDIA MINUTE MESSAGE
    • Purpose: The Radio/Media Minute Message is designed to challenge the participant in using a medium that is powerful in today’s world but where time is of the essence. The participant is to design and present a radio spot on portable media which would reach out to the community and
      encourage them with the message of Christ in relation to the current year’s LTC theme.
  • SCRIPTURE CHALLENGE
    • Purpose: This event promotes the habit of memorizing at least 100 verses from scripture each year. It encourages memory work as a part of the Bible class program. It promotes the use of quoted scriptures in lessons and conversations. It promotes the study of scriptures as a positive
      replacement for time consumed by the telephone, television, and computer.
  • SERVICE CHALLENGE
    • Purpose: This event encourages students to make Christian service an integral part of their lifestyle. It promotes creative thinking in coming up with new ways to serve the church and the community. (Note: This is SERVICE, requiring preparation and service time. It is not just an impromptu “good deed.”)
  • SONG WRITING
    • Purpose: This event develops the ability to express spiritual feelings and thoughts in the form of song.
  • T-SHIRT DESIGN
    • Purpose: This event was developed to encourage communication of the participant’s faith and beliefs through the artistic media of T-Shirt design. Participants are limited only by their imagination. Entries should make a clear point and should visually represent the current year’s theme. This
      is not a team event.
  • VIDEO BIBLE DRAMA
    • Purpose: In this recorded event, student actors dressed in appropriate costumes and using suitable props, dramatize a Bible story which illustrates the current year’s LTC theme.
  • BIBLE Bowl
    • Purpose: To challenge participants to achieve an in-depth knowledge of God’s Word, specifically the theme book. We strongly encourage every participant in LTCNW to enter the Bible Bowl event because knowledge of the Scripture is at the heart of the Christian faith and Leadership Training for Christ. Bible Bowl is a convention event that brings the entire community together at a specific time to think about and remember God’s Word together.
  • BIBLE READERS THEATERS
    • Purpose: The purpose of this event is to encourage dramatic, choral readings of scripture to make Bible reading texts come alive, and to vocally emphasize the deeper meanings of scripture.
  • BIBLE READING
    • Purpose: This event provides an opportunity for young people to motivate one another and develop skills through the oral reading of the Scripture. This event is for grades 3-6.
  • BULLETIN BOARDS
    • Purpose: This event is intended to help young people develop the ability to use creative ideas and techniques to communicate a thought or theme. Adult assistance should be limited to that of advice and supervision. The bulletin board should make a clear point and develop a visual representation of the current year’s LTC theme.
  • CHORUS
    • Purpose: This event presents a cappella music in a choral setting in order to praise God, encourage believers, and witness to unbelievers.
  • CHRISTIAN ART
    • Purpose: This event was developed to encourage communication of the participant’s faith and beliefs through the artistic media of sculpturing, photography, painting, drawing and computer design. Participants are limited only by their imagination. Entries should make a clear point and should visually represent the current year’s theme. This is not a team event.
  • CONTEXTUAL BIBLE READING QUIZ
    • Purpose: To develop contextual Bible Reading skills. This event challenges students to notice details in the text and consider how those details work together in a passage based on the context to inform the spirit-inspired author’s meaning. Scriptures covered will come from the current year’s theme book.
  • LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
    • Purpose: This event promotes the leadership of older participants in the training of younger participants. It encourages the main idea of Leadership Training for Christ by encouraging the development of leadership skills.
  • LIVE MODERN CHRISTIAN DRAMA
    • Purpose: This event encourages students to dramatize life applications to Christian truths. Drama is a legitimate art form that enhances our understanding and appreciation of the great truths of our faith. Through drama, youth as well as adults can see the issues they confront acted out, and they become more receptive to hearing what God has to say.
  • PUPPETRY
    • Purpose: Many people are captivated by puppetry performances. This event challenges young people to skillfully present Biblical themes and stories through the use of puppetry.
  • SCRAPBOOKS
    • Purpose: This event provides a pictorial and written documentation of leadership development within a congregation.
  • SIGNING FOR THE DEAF
    • Purpose: This event encourages students to develop the skill of signing so that they can communicate and develop relationships with the hearing impaired, thus giving them the opportunity to minister to the needs of the hearing impaired.
  • SONG LEADING
    • Purpose: Singing is an integral part of praising God. The song leader’s skills directly affect the praising of God in group settings. This event encourages the development of song leading skills in young men and women.
  • SPEECH
    •  Purpose: To provide opportunities for young people to develop their verbal communication talents by observing and sharing their public speaking skills.
  • WORSHIP BANNER
    • Purpose: This event is designed to encourage young people to lead in creative expressions of a corporate worship theme in visual form. The worship banner should make a clear point to the worshiping community and develop visually the current year’s LTC theme. The worship banner is to help promote worship not just state the theme of LTC.

Pre-Convention Events (Individual)

Submit all pre-convention events to Brett Nowlin by Sunday, 2/26
Bible Class Teaching
This event helps and encourages young people to develop creative teaching skills.
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Bible Reading
To provide an opportunity for young people to develop skills through the oral reading of the Scripture.
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Children's Book
To encourage the use of creative writing and drawing in a Christian arena.
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Christian Essay
This event challenges individuals to use the written word to communicate God's message. Their writing content, style, and message should reflect a respect for the importance and value of communicating God's message in written form.
Click Here
Christian Fiction
In today's world there is a need for fiction that conveys a Christian message as an alternative to fiction that is often atheistic and amoral in nature. This event encourages the growth of creative writers to use their skill in a Christian arena.
Click Here
Christian Podcast
As the Internet becomes more and more a part of our society’s daily life, it is becoming important for a church to have a podcast promoting its ministries, focus and reliance on the Bible. The purpose of this event is to provide opportunity and experience to individuals wishing to serve in developing in this new communication medium. The purpose of the Christian podcast is to challenge the participant in using a media platform that is powerful in today’s world where time is of the essence. The participant is to design and present a podcast(s) that would reach out and encourage people with the message of Christ in relation to the current year’s LTCNW theme.
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Christian Website
As the Internet becomes more and more a part of our society’s daily life, it is becoming important for a church to have a website promoting its ministries, focus and reliance on the Bible. The purpose of this event is to provide opportunity and experience to individuals wishing to serve in developing in this new communications medium.
Click Here
Church Bulletin
The church bulletin is the first and maybe the only printed material a visitor may receive when visiting a local church. The bulletin can be an extremely effective communication tool for the local church. Creating a bulletin that gets read and used can be an art. This project is intended to help young people develop the skills to use creative ideas and techniques to communicate information about their church to both the visitor and the regular attendees. The hope is to show another area of the church that needs creative people to be leaders.
Click Here
Daily Devotional
This event is designed to encourage spiritual discipline and growth in the participants as they continue to serve the Lord with their talents and gifts. It promotes active commitment and consistency in Prayer, Study, and Journaling in the participant’s walk with God.
Click Here
Communion Meditation
Jesus Christ died on the cross to save us. The message of His death, burial and resurrection is the foundation of Christianity. To remember the importance of God’s sacrifice of his son, Jesus provided us with the Lord’s Supper. This event encourages our youth to express their comprehension of the relevance of Christ’s death to all aspects of the Christian life. Though this is a written event, it should be written as if giving a talk in preparation for the Lord’s Supper.
Click Here
Evangelism/Outreach Challenge
To encourage Christian young people to reach out and teach others the gospel of Christ; To promote the need of reaching the lost and bringing them to the knowledge of God’s Word.
Click Here
Poetry
This event develops the ability to express spiritual feelings and thoughts in the form of rhyme and verse.
Click Here
PowerPoint
To develop and demonstrate creative and technical talents by creating a PowerPoint presentation.
Click Here
Prayer Challenge
To promote the habit of praying; To encourage recognition of the constant need for prayer as a part of our relationship with God. To promote the use of prayer journals to keep track of our conversations with the Father, and promote a scheduled, ongoing “quiet time” with God, which is so often consumed by other activities.
Click Here
Radio/Media Minute Message
The Radio/Media Minute Message is designed to challenge the participant in using a medium that is powerful in today's world but where time is of the essence. The participant is to design and present a radio spot on portable media which would reach out to the community and encourage them with the message of Christ in relation to the current year’s LTC theme.
Click Here
Scripture Challenge
This event promotes the habit of memorizing at least 100 verses from scripture each year. It encourages memory work as a part of the Bible class program. It promotes the use of quoted scriptures in lessons and conversations. It promotes the study of scriptures as a positive replacement for time consumed by the telephone, television, and computer.
Click Here
Service Challenge
This event encourages students to make Christian service an integral part of their lifestyle. It promotes creative thinking in coming up with new ways to serve the church and the community. (Note: This is SERVICE, requiring preparation and service time. It is not just an impromptu “good deed.”)
Click Here
Song Writing
This event develops the ability to express spiritual feelings and thoughts in the form of song.
Click Here
T-Shirt Design
This event was developed to encourage communication of the participant’s faith and beliefs through the artistic media of T-Shirt design. Participants are limited only by their imagination. Entries should make a clear point and should visually represent the current year’s theme. This is not a team event.
Click Here
Video Bible Drama
In this recorded event, student actors dressed in appropriate costumes and using suitable props, dramatize a Bible story which illustrates the current year's LTC theme.
Click Here
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Convention Events (Group)

Bible Bowl
To challenge participants to achieve an in-depth knowledge of God's Word, specifically the theme book. We strongly encourage every participant in LTCNW to enter the Bible Bowl event because knowledge of the Scripture is at the heart of the Christian faith and Leadership Training for Christ. Bible Bowl is a convention event that brings the entire community together at a specific time to think about and remember God’s Word together.
Click Here
Bible Readers Theater
The purpose of this event is to encourage dramatic, choral readings of scripture to make Bible reading texts come alive, and to vocally emphasize the deeper meanings of scripture.
Click Here
Bible Reading
This event provides an opportunity for young people to motivate one another and develop skills through the oral reading of the Scripture. This event is for grades 3-6.
Click Here
Bulletin Boards
This event is intended to help young people develop the ability to use creative ideas and techniques to communicate a thought or theme. Adult assistance should be limited to that of advice and supervision. The bulletin board should make a clear point and develop a visual representation of the current year's LTC theme.
Click Here
Chorus
This event presents acappella music in a choral setting in order to praise God, encourage believers, and witness to unbelievers.
Click Here
Christian Art
This event was developed to encourage communication of the participant's faith and beliefs through the artistic media of sculpturing, photography, painting, drawing and computer design. Participants are limited only by their imagination. Entries should make a clear point and should visually represent the current year's theme. This is not a team event.
Click Here
Contextual Bible Reading Quiz
To develop contextual Bible Reading skills. This event challenges students to notice details in the text and consider how those details work together in a passage based on the context to inform the spirit-inspired author’s meaning. Scriptures covered will come from the current year’s theme book.
Click Here
Leadership Challenge
This event promotes the leadership of older participants in the training of younger participants. It encourages the main idea of Leadership Training for Christ by encouraging the development of leadership skills.
Click Here
Live Modern Christian Drama
This event encourages students to dramatize life applications to Christian truths. Drama is a legitimate art form that enhances our understanding and appreciation of the great truths of our faith. Through drama, youth as well as adults can see the issues they confront acted out, and they become more receptive to hearing what God has to say.
Click Here
Puppetry
Many people are captivated by puppetry performances. This event challenges young people to skillfully present Biblical themes and stories through the use of puppetry.
Click Here
Scrapbooks
This event provides a pictorial and written documentation of leadership development within a congregation.
Click Here
Signing for the Deaf
This event encourages students to develop the skill of signing so that they can communicate and develop relationships with the hearing impaired, thus giving them the opportunity to minister to the needs of the hearing impaired.
Click Here
Song Leading
Singing is an integral part of praising God. The song leader's skills directly affect the praising of God in group settings. This event encourages the development of song leading skills in young men and women.
Click Here
Speech
To provide opportunities for young people to develop their verbal communication talents by observing and sharing their public speaking skills.
Click Here
Worship Banner
This event is designed to encourage young people to lead in creative expressions of a corporate worship theme in visual form. The worship banner should make a clear point to the worshiping community and develop visually the current year's LTC theme. The worship banner is to help promote worship not just state the theme of LTC..
Click Here
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2023 Resources

Reference Manual
STUDENT Bible Bowl Study Guide
TEACHER Bible Bowl Study Guide
Contextual Bible Reading Study Guide

2023 Convention Schedule

2023 Convention Schedule