Guidelines for Handbook Time Leaders & Listeners

Listeners are responsible for making sure kids have successfully memorized verses in handbook sections.  They are not responsible for making sure kids complete activity sections in their handbooks, or that sections are completed in the correct order – these are the responsibility of handbook time leaders.

Listeners should make sure handbook time leaders are aware that they are ready to listen to kids recite verses and should move freely between groups to allow all kids adequate time to recite their verses.  Kids in Truth & Training (3^rd through 6^th grade) have handbook time from 6:30-7:10 PM.  Kids in SPARKS (Kindergarten through 2^nd grade) have handbook time from 7:15-7:55PM.

Handbook time leaders will send kids who are ready to recite verses to listeners who are waiting in the hallways.  The child will tell the listener what sections they are prepared to recite, hand the book to the listener, and begin.  Once sections are completed, the listener should sign the child's handbook in the sections completed and report back to the handbook time leader the sections that were successfully completed.

• 2 helps per section – a help is two or three words for SPARKS and one or two words for Truth & Training
• Handbook verses are New King James (NKJV) translation.  King James (KJV), New American Standard (NAS, NASB), and New International Version (NIV) translations are acceptable.