Bible Bee Summer Study
Discovery Journal (DJ) Overview for First-Timers
Are you waiting for your Discovery Journal (DJ)?
While waiting for your DJ, and if you are new to the Bible Bee, feel free to watch this video about the structure of the Discovery Journal and how to access the Blue Letter Bible. This was an overview of the 2024 DJ. This year's 2026 DJ will follow the same format. Please check the PDF Parent Guide on your NBB Dashboard. More info about the NBB Discovery Journal here.
Access the Blue Letter Bible Tutorial to find Strong's numbers and Greek words.
Thursday Online Meetings
June 4, 11, 18, 25, July 9, 16, 23, 30 & Aug 8, 2026 (Proclaim Day)
Bible Bee Gathering Time: 6:30 to 7:30 pm for Primary and 8:00 to 9:00 pm for Junior and Senior. Details below.
Exclusive for New to Bible Bee
Online Meeting Time: June 1, 2026, from 5:30 to 6:15 pm US EST for parents only.
We will go over the basic information about the Bible Bee Summer Study.
Sign up here.
Monday Parent Cohorts
Join Our Parent Cohort Pilot
Join our 7-week parent cohort to learn simple, research-based strategies that help your child truly understand and apply Scripture while strengthening their learning across subjects—see details below. This is part of Krishna Cart's EdD Curriculum and Instruction dissertation pilot study. You will help refine instructional coaching instruments for teachers. Learn more about her works here.
Join Our Parent Cohort Pilot
We’re inviting a small group of parents to take part in a 7-week pilot designed to help you guide your child in understanding and applying Scripture more deeply.
This isn’t about adding more work to your week. It’s about giving you simple, practical tools you can use right away at home.
Why This Matters
Many children can memorize verses. Fewer truly understand what they mean or how to apply them.
This cohort helps you move your child from memorizing to thinking, from retelling to understanding.
Just as important, the strategies you’ll learn aren’t limited to Scripture. These are research-based reading and comprehension strategies that also support learning in subjects like English language arts, science, and social studies.
Optional free ($350 value) literacy assessment exclusively for the Parent Cohort Group's children. Join the group here.
Our 2025 National Bible Bee Qualifiers
Please join us in praying and cheering on these students as they prepare for the national stage. Let’s keep them uplifted as they embark on this exciting journey! We can’t wait to see how God will use each of you for His glory.
We also invite our broader community to cover these students in prayer—by name. As they prepare for this challenging and meaningful competition, please pray for:
-Protection from distraction and discouragement
-Guidance as they study and grow in the Word
-Wisdom in applying Scripture to their lives
"Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes... and pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people."
— Ephesians 6:11, 18
Primary 2025 NBBC Qualifiers
- Daniel Rattan
- Sofia Grace Montgomery
- Julia Joy Montgomery
- Evan Sijumon
- Suhanna Shine Talari
- Charlie Perkins
- CalebGirma
- Selah Llamas
- Seth Lamidi
Junior 2025 NBBC Qualifiers
- Hannah Grace Blevins
- Jonathon Sanford
- Susanna Shine Talari
- Betsy Perkins
- Persimone Perkins
- Joshua Rattan
- Jaydah Llamas
- Joshua Girma
- Assurance Lu
August 8, 2026 Proclaim! Day at the Museum of the Bible
To ensure a smooth event, we need all participants to sign up if they are attending the Proclaim Day. This helps us accurately prepare medals, certificates, name tags, and scorecards and manage other logistics.
We are proud of our students, Jonathon Sanford and Susanna Shine Talari to have awarded the perfect oral recitations in the 2024 National Bible Bee Competition in Orlando, FL.
Why do it at the Museum of the Bible?
Great practice for national competition.
Experience the NBBC simulated semifinal and final segments.
Proclaim! God's Words on Stage
Experience the joy and fulfillment of proclaiming God’s word on stage, inspiring others with your passion and devotion.
Chance to win medals!
Medals, certificates, and special recognitions await the top performers. Could you be one of them?
Memory Verse Marathon Champions
The Masterpiece Academy recognizes students who memorized their Navigate and Explore passages for the week. Students recite them inside our Masterpiece Learning Portal. Parents give us the score for each Bible verse recited. If you prefer not to upload or recite on our portal, you may also ask your student to recite their Memory Verses at home and just write the score of your student for convenience at our portal. We will recognize oral perfect recitations through videos like these that we can play during our online gatherings.
Primary Division
Junior Division
Scripture Sprint Top Ten Champions
Scripture Sprint is a 15-minute Bible Bee Summer Study competition during our online gathering. Each student must borrow their parents' cell phone for 15 minutes to participate in the game. The Masterpiece Academy creates test items from the DJ as both enrichment and fun competition.
June 27, 2025 Bible Bee Gathering
Primary Division
Junior and Senior Divisions
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth.
Psalm 127:3-4
Bible Bee Resources
We are a Proud Regional Host of the Bible Bee Summer Studies.
We provide supplemental resources and develop free Bible Bee Summer Studies learning modules based on the NBBC theme to empower and equip parents as providers and protectors of their families.
Train up a child the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6
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