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This year, leaders in our ‘company section’ of B.B. have been using the ‘One To One’ Bible reading aid to try and kick-start our hopes of developing the ability of the boys to read the Bible for themselves, in their own time and in a competent manner, so that they can have the beneft of cultivating a life-long, life-giving practice. The boys were each given their own individual blue cards to keep and use in our frst week back, though it has predictably turned Trampolines. American night. Worship. Goodbyes to Sophie Kirk. into a weekly hand-out of new cards for everyone - hopefully because they are all using them Assemblies. Prayer times. SU’s. Road-trips. Quad-Ball. Exploring so much at home! the gospels. Exciting plans. There are three basic questions to be followed as a trigger for the reading of any given passage of Scripture: And, of course, lots of selfies and pictures! The new year at IGNITE might just be a few months old but A light-bulb, for anything that stands out as we read the passage together. It’s always between leaders, interns and young people, we’ve already learned a surprising to see the diferent little things that stand out to each of them, and the connections they can make to other things in the back of their minds. lot, grown in our faith, been challenged and A question mark, to help us try and clearly identify anything that doesn’t make immediate encouraged and absolutely crammed a lot of fun into our sense in the text, and so we leaders can try and help them through the thinking process to get term, so far - and we love it! where the author intends us to come to (that is, on the rare occasion that the leaders know). An arrow, asking us to come to the exhortation of any text - what is God teaching in the given Enjoy some of our snapshots and keep on passage? How are we to be shaped by this Truth? praying for us, as we know you do! Stuart McKimm It’s a challenging process, helpful for everyone involved. Here’s what the boys who are new to ‘company section’ this year have said of ‘One to One’ themselves: “I fnd it helpful because instead of just reading the Bible and not understanding, we look at it in more detail, which helps me understand it better” - Niall Pogue. “I like it because we get to see the Bible from other points of view, and we might not have known a certain thing, but it helps because we can discuss it” - Adam McLaughlin. “I think it is a good way to learn what’s in the verses and investigate what it means in the groups of two or three” - Matthew Hill.