Why Should I Receive My Medal

I received my medal at a bible competition held at River of Life church in Tennessee. In this competition six different churches compete, and it is comprised of a series of questions in specific predesignated areas of the bible. The winner gets a first place trophy that is displayed at the church and each member of the participating team gets a gold medal. Second place receives silver and third bronze. The other three remaining teams do not receive anything. The church we competed against ordered the medals, and our church designed them. The oldest people from my youth group got the privilege of creating the medals. We had so many different ideas we wanted to incorporate, and we could not come to a decision on one. That is the reason for

Whenever our church family and competitors see, they will know we are a force to be wrecking with. When we see the medal we feel pride in our group. Getting the medal was not easy for us, we had to compete in three different competitions to finally place. Since we worked hard to accomplish this, the medal is that much more important to us. It shows that we do not give up and we are constantly aiming to improve ourselves. This artifact displays that we are growing as a community, and that we continually strive to challenge ourselves in everything we do. To prepare for the competition, members of my youth group were stressed out studying every day. We constantly met with each other to study in hopes that we would get first place and stop embarrassing ourselves. When we received the medals we were happy, but not as happy as we could have been, because we did not receive first place. Even though it was the first time we even placed in a competition we still set ourselves to the highest standard possible. This shows as a community that we are dedicated and we will not settle for less when it comes to the growth of the