HOW DO YOU GET KIDS TO MEMORISE BIBLE VERSES?

Have you ever been frustrated when trying to teach kids Bible verses?  Parents not helping?  Kids bored?

Tips:

In 2009 we started a Pathfinder Club.  Pathfinders is similar to scouts but with spiritual and Bible work, and one of the requirements is that the kids memorise 6 verses in 6 months and get at least 75% on a test of them.  The difficulty for us was that many of our kids were not academically gifted, in fact some of them could barely read and getting them to spend time memorising something was virtually impossible.

So this was our plan of attack:
As a result, all the kids passed their test including those who could barely read.

Jump forward to 2023 and I'm back in Pathfinders. We have been learning a new song each week as well as singing all the previous ones, and I have found that by learning all the verses in a row makes it easier to remember them all - remember the first and the rest follow.  Inspired by the story of a family who each memorised parts of the Bible so they could rewrite it when their Bible was confiscated, my aim now is to be able to sing every single pathfinder verse in a row by 2028, as well as other verses and chapters.

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