Embrace Your Challenge

Learning to Listen

Debate has taught me how to listen because, especially today, I feel like not only not enough people are listening to each other's points, but they're just saying whatever they want to say. Also, it’s taught me respect and honor to your opponent, because at the end of the day, we still have to be friends.

Parents and Kids Experience Learning Opportunities Together

I got to do a lot of great parenting on the tournament grounds just as a mom and talk my kids through some situations. We got to point out: “This is where we want to respond. This is how we don't want to respond.” So I feel like in every way this has been such a practical skill and a practical impact on the lives of my kids. So I highly recommend and would encourage anyone to participate.

The Most Beneficial High School Activity

Seeing how articulate they were, how they were striving for excellence, how they love Jesus—I thought that's the kind of student I want my homeschool student to be. And those are the kind of kids that I want them hanging out with. So that's basically why I joined. And it's been the best, most beneficial thing that I have done for my kids for high school.

Skills Have Long-term Value

I have four adult children; every single one of them using the very specific skills that they learned in the NCFCA.

Finding Courage to Communicate

NCFCA has given me so much more courage to communicate with people. And the community is focused on God's glory, and we're all encouraging each other.