The Great Plains Convention

2008 Great Plains LTC Reference Manual

The 2008 GPLTC manual is available here;  It will remain here for information purposes until the 2009 manual is published.  This book contains all of the guidelines for church coordinators, coaches, and students for LTC and all of its events.  Each participating congregation is authorized to download a copy and make as many copies as required to enact this program at their local congregation.  To download a copy of the 2008 Great Plains Leadership Training for Christ Reference Manual in Adobe PDF format (351 KB), click here. 

2008 Convention Schedules

• Master Convention Schedule
• Puppet Schedule
• Drama Schedule
• Large Chorus Schedule
• Small Chorus Schedule
• These schedules have been left on-line to give interested congregations an idea of how the convention operates.

Maps and Plans

• Color-coded event maps of rooms at specific convention times:
  • Friday, 7:00 p.m.
  • Friday, 8:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, 8:00 a.m.
  • Saturday, 9:30 a.m.
  • Saturday, 11:00 a.m.
  • Saturday, 1:00 p.m.
  • Saturday, 2:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, 4:00 p.m.
• Plan of the Rogers Convention Center, click here.
• Plan and elevation of the Puppet performance rooms, PDF format, click here.

Forms

• SR - the Student Registration form is available as a PDF (22 KB).
• Team Event Participant List - Word Document, 16 KB.  You will need to save this file as a Word document (even if it gives you an error message or looks odd), then you will be able to see the document properly in Microsoft Word and fill out the blanks for each of your teams.  TEPL - PDF Format.
• Judging Forms - the following judging forms are available for church coordinators to fill out in advance in order to save time at check in.  Fill out the heading on 3 identical forms for each entry. 
• Christian Art
• Christian Banner
• Bulletin Board
• Scrapbook

Programs

• To open the above documents, you will need a current copy of Adobe Reader.  Download Adobe Reader; you will receive a free copy.

LTC Resources

Puppets - To view a copy of The Puppet Workshop Notebook, by David and Kay Tomberlin and Ron Bruner, in Adobe PDF format (138 KB), click here. 

Bible Bowl - To help those who are studying for the Bible Bowl event, GPLTC is posting copies of 2005's Bible Bowl test (Luke) so that teachers can understand the form of the test used for this event.  To down load a portion of each test in PDF format (these files range in size from 44 to 62 KB), click on the Round numbers below.

• 3rd - 6th grade:  Round One;  Round Two;  Round Three
• 7th - 12th grade: Round One; Round Two; Round Three

Bible Quiz - To help those preparing for Bible Bowl and Bible Quiz, GPLTC is posting a PDF copy of 2005's Bible Quiz test (Luke) so that teachers can see the type of testing that is conducted during this event.  Both 3-6th grade test and the 7-12th grade tests are available.  To view a copy of the 2005 Bible Quiz test for the 3-6th grades, click here; to view a copy of the 2005 Bible Quiz test for the 7-12th grades, click here.

Links

Colleges and Universities - The following colleges and universities provide scholarships for outstanding students involved in LTC:

• Abilene Christian University
• Freed-Hardeman University
• Harding University
• Lubbock Christian University
• Oklahoma Christian University
• York College

Organizations using the LTC program:

Westview Boys' Home of Hollis, OK.  Westview provides quality Christian care for needy, neglected, rejected, and troubled boys.

©Great Plains Leadership Training for Christ, 1997-2008.   Updated March 24, 2008.