Jr. Tournament 2008

Esther Anderson, Cassie...duo partners...cousins and close friends.

The boys...Jonathan, William, Levi and Jared...all cousins and buddies too.

Murren, Abigail and Mailee....oh cousins as well! Friends as well.

William with his expository board on signs.

I think he had too much fu...HA

He did an awesome job....he tied with his cousin (Mercy) and there had to be a tie breaker. Pretty exciting!

All cousins....pretty funny! Notice all the pretty dresses...one guess....YEP Grandma Dot went shopping for the tournament! :)

We had a wonderful time at the NCFCA Jr. Speech Tournament here in Medford yesterday! God is faithful and we are so happy....with the children and all the work they did for this event. Cassie and Esther got 2nd place in duo, Twins (Mailee and Murren) got 3rd place in the duo. William 2nd place in Expository, Mailee 3rd place in poem, Murren made it to the break in Scripture. They had fun and I know it is helping them in their "future stations in life!"

Pictures from Tournament

Before Awards were announced these young people led worship. Aaron, Tait, Dylan, Natalie and Alex. It was beautiful! Alex said this was the the Best time he had during the tournament....I am not surprised! :) The worship was always wonderful every morning and it really set the scene for the rest of the day.

The competing Cousins...well Devin was missing. Are they a good looking bunch or what?? YEP!

Collin and Anna. Collin won 3rd. in Expository and Anna won 3rd in Open Interpretation.

Anna said she wanted to place so bad, not for herself but for Grandma Dot. She said she spent so much money and she did not want to let her down...so sweet! For you Grandma Dot~!!!

All the cousins get so happy for each other! They all are so encouraging. Anna, Destiny and Karissa.

Anna and friend Tessa. Before the awards were announced....the butterflies were flying for sure!

It was a blessing to see all these young people do their different speeches and do so well. The community judges that came, (from all over town) were all blessed by the children too. Many of the judges said over and over they could not believe the kindness and support the kids showed to one another. There was prayer in the halls for one another before they would compete and there was much fun playing games when in between speeches. Kids from 7 years old to young adults 20 playing games together. It was a great tournament. I do believe Jesus was glorified and that is the whole point of life!!!! I hope to figure out how to post some of the videos of the speeches here soon, I'm having tech difficulties.