Lightraiders Adventure Bible Study System

Lightraiders is a nonprofit project *

Discipleship Through Fantasy Adventure

Build characters that grow in strength and rank while your group grows together in Christ.

Lightraiders uses role-playing game elements like building characters and building a story together for a choose-your-adventure-style learning system. Play it together as a family or in school or church small groups. The box includes the basic game plus the first two quests. That’s one semester (12 weeks) of adventure when played twice a week or a full school year when played once a week (preferred). Expansion “years” will follow soon. Lightraiders is designed for 1 leader and 2 to 6 players. Larger groups can play by sharing Player Characters. A leader with a single player can also play if the single player creates multiple Player Characeters.

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*Lightraiders is a project of the Florida nonprofit corporation Courser Media. All proceeds go towards the continued development of the curriculum. Please consider donating to the project via our Give option in the shop. Courser Media is awaiting 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Donations will be retroactively exempt once that status is approved.
Components from the Lightraiders teen Bible curriculum

Join a Fantasy Quest

An engaging teen Bible curriculum

  • Create your character
  • Fight for the Rescuer
  • Save the lost
  • Learn God’s Word together
Handbook from the Lightraiders teen Bible curriculum

Need extra handbooks?

Each boxed set comes with two Cadet Handbooks. These student guides contain detailed information about the Lightraiders Realm, plus the verses, hints, and notes players need for each episode. Some groups prefer to have a handbook for every player.

The Lightraider Academy Christian fantasy book trilogy

Did you know there's a book series?

A teen Bible curriculum with a companion book series

The Lightraider Academy Trilogy brings our fantasy realm to life in award-winning fiction from veteran Christian author James R. Hannibal. Order signed copies from our store or buy them wherever books are sold.

What is Lightraiders?

A teen Bible curriculum first

We designed Lightraiders as an engaging teen Bible curriculum ideal for family game nights, Christian education, church youth groups, or homeschool use. Each episode comprises approximately 45 minutes of questing play. Students take part in a fantasy adventure, fighting battles and enduring trials while encouraging each other with Scripture. The verses they apply in the quest reappear at the end in a 10-15 minute wrap-up. We built Lightraiders for small groups of one leader and two to six players/students.

A fantasy rpg-style game

Fantasy choose-your-adventure play keeps students engaged. During their quest journey they employ verses from their handbook in allegorical contexts. At the end, the “Know, Grow, Go” wrap-up Bible study helps them gain a deeper understanding of each verse’s application to real-life. They also learn to share the Gospel and practice sharing in the safety of the fantasy game environment.

Twice per quest, students “rank-up” through the 24 levels of cadets, scouts, knights, and guardians. In year 2, They’ll choose a special “sphere,” like the Navigators’ Sphere or the Vanguard. Later, they’ll be able to take on a special role, such as Renewer, Lion Warrior, or Knight of the Way.

We recommend students begin the system between 12 and 16 years old, but no younger than 10. The leader should be a parent or teacher. A teen leader is possible, but should be no younger than 14.

Lightraiders employs

  • Flash memory followed by key-word/key-concept memory for greater retention.
  • Real-world applications for every verse composed by Dr. Gary C. Huckabay.
  • Fantasy adventure and Bible studies composed by a team of writers led by award-winning Christian author James R. Hannibal.
  • Illustrations by incredible artists Dean Zachary, Kirk DouPonce, Graham Snow, and more.
  • A rank system that allows players to progress and gain a sense of their growth and accomplishment.

Stay Tuned

More Lightraiders adventures will come so that your players may keep advancing through the knightly ranks.

You can also find all the verses from the Lightraiders system already available in the memory game/verse of the day devotional deck First Watch, suited by the fruit of the Spirit. Students who learn these foundational verses and practice them with First Watch find more success in the Lightraiders system.

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