Leadership Training for Christ was started in 1989 to stimulate spiritual, mental, and social growth among students in grades three through twelve. Its mission is to foster enthusiasm, skill development, and high achievement in church leadership, Bible knowledge, and Christian servanthood through participation in a variety of individual and group events students will enjoy. There are over thirty events available.

The LTC regional conventions are held every Easter weekend. Participants achieve points based on clearly defined criteria for each event (a rubric) they enter. Participants receive a gold, silver, or bronze medal based on the points they earn within the set criteria. In other words, every child in every congregation who earns the required points determined for that event will earn a medal of the corresponding color. With work, participants can come home with a medal in every event they enter!  

Some of the events available include the following:

Song Leading • Bible Bowl • Bible Quiz • Bulletin Board
Church Scrapbook • Daily Devotional • Essay • Fiction 
Public Bible Reading • Outreach • Poetry • Speech • PowerPoint
Chorus • Drama • Scripture Memory • Service • Daily Bible Reading  
Song Writing • Puppets • Teaching • Video Bible Drama • Painting  Sculpture • Computer Art • Sign Language • Web Page • Short Film • Photography • Illustration • Children’s Book • Audio Broadcast

Plans for 2008
In 2008, we plan to attend the LTC formerly held in Tulsa, which has been moved to Rogers, AR. See the Great Plains LTC site for more information. The theme will be "Here Am I!" based on the book of I Samuel. Besides student participants, we also love to have adult coaches who will work with the children to help them prepare for the various events, even if you don’t attend the convention. Please see Kelly or Julie Elander if you or your children are interested in being involved!

2007 participants from Downtown
Eight kids from Downtown attended the North Texas LTC convention at the DFW Hyatt in Dallas. More than 6,000 students participated in LTC at the three Dallas locations this year, not to mention those who attended all the other sites across the country!!

Downtown participants ranged in age from fourth graders through high school seniors. They were:
Jacob S--bronze indv. BBowl, bronze team BBowl, bronze bulletin board, silver outreach, silver computer art
Hallie H--bronze indv. BBowl, bronze team BBowl
Shelby R--gold drama
Crystal N--gold drama
Autumn H--bronze indv. BBowl, silver team BBowl, gold children's book
Sam E--bronze indv. BBowl, silver team BBowl, gold sculpture
Josh E--bronze indv. BBowl, silver team BBowl, gold t-shirt design
Liz E--silver indv. BBowl, silver team BBowl, gold children's book

Josh's tshirt design won Gold!	Bronze for these awesome Bible Bowlers!	Sam's sculpture: Gold!
Lined up, ready for Bible Bowl (each participant has an answer cube)	Liz and Autumn get ready for Bible Bowl.	Crystal and Shelby won Gold for the skit they WROTE and performed! See their script.
Liz and Autumn wrote a children's book together and won Gold.	The kids each get a plaque for participating, then they get a Gold, Sliver or Bronze plate for their event to attach.