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<\/a><\/h3>\nMy name is Les Johnson, the founder of <\/span>Teen Bible Challenge Inc. (TBC). I\u2019m married and have two adult children and three beautiful granddaughters.\u00a0\u00a0I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and have worked full time for Amway Corporation from 1987 to 2012.\u00a0\u00a0From 1992 to 1995, I also worked as a part\u2013time youth director for Sunshine Community Church and observed how little scripture this generation of youth had committed to memory. Realizing this, I felt God\u2019s Spirit prompting me to do something different through His strength and leading.\u00a0\u00a0As a result, in October 1995, I stepped out in faith and asked five junior high students from Sunshine Church to participate on a Bible quiz team.\u00a0\u00a0Two years later, a handful of teams from area churches began competing together on a monthly basis throughout the school year.<\/span><\/p>\n After seeing how the lives of these teens changed for His glory, God placed on my heart the need to develop a board and incorporate Teen Bible Challenge (TBC) to preserve the ministry that God had raised up.<\/p>\n My personal desire from the beginning has always been for students to plant God\u2019s Word in their hearts through the memorization of scripture.\u00a0\u00a0My hope was that the scripture would make them wise for salvation and help them to be able to discern between good and evil in our world today.<\/p>\n The one regret I have is that I didn\u2019t provide programming like TBC in my early years of youth ministry.\u00a0\u00a0I say this because I saw more visible fruit in the lives of the students that participated in TBC than in the lives of those who just attended other youth programs.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label=”section” global_module=”2653″ fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”off” allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on” make_equal=”off” use_custom_gutter=”off”][et_pb_row global_parent=”2653″ admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_contact_form global_parent=”2653″ admin_label=”Contact Form” captcha=”on” email=”info@teenbiblechallenge.org” title=”Contact TBC” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_button=”off” button_letter_spacing=”0″ button_use_icon=”default” button_icon_placement=”right” button_on_hover=”on” button_letter_spacing_hover=”0″] [\/et_pb_contact_form][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How It All Began A Word from the Founder of TBC My name is Les Johnson, the founder of Teen Bible Challenge Inc. 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I\u2019m married and have two adult children and three beautiful granddaughters.\u00a0\u00a0I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and have worked full time for Amway Corporation from 1987 to 2012.\u00a0\u00a0From 1992 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" After seeing how the lives of these teens changed for His glory, God placed on my heart the need to develop a board and incorporate Teen Bible Challenge (TBC) to preserve the ministry that God had raised up.<\/p>\r\n My personal desire from the beginning has always been for students to plant God\u2019s Word in their hearts through the memorization of scripture.\u00a0\u00a0My hope was that the scripture would make them wise for salvation and help them to be able to discern between good and evil in our world today.<\/p>\r\n The one regret I have is that I didn\u2019t provide programming like TBC in my early years of youth ministry.\u00a0\u00a0I say this because I saw more visible fruit in the lives of the students that participated in TBC than in the lives of those who just attended other youth programs.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/3644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teenbiblechallenge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}A Word from the Founder of TBC
<\/a><\/h3>\r\nMy name is Les Johnson, the founder of <\/span>Teen Bible Challenge Inc.<\/a> (TBC). I\u2019m married and have two adult children and three beautiful granddaughters.\u00a0\u00a0I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan and have worked full time for Amway Corporation from 1987 to present.\u00a0\u00a0From 1992-95, I also worked as a part\u2013time youth director for Sunshine Community Church and observed how little scripture this generation of youth had committed to memory. Realizing this, I felt God\u2019s Spirit prompting me to do something different through His strength and leading.\u00a0\u00a0As a result, in October 1995, I stepped out in faith and asked five junior high students from Sunshine Church to participate on a Bible quiz team.\u00a0\u00a0Two years later, a handful of teams from area churches began competing together on a monthly basis throughout the school year.<\/span>\r\n