Welcome to the Tennessee State Forensics (Speech & Debate) website. Contained herein is a description of the purpose and goals of Christian Communicators of Tennessee (CCT). For information about individual clubs located in Tennessee click the link to the club on the left.
Colossians 4:6
Let your conversation be always full of grace,
seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.
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Resolved: Christian Communicators of Tennessee is a service organization designed to promote and encourage speech and debate for Home Education students in the state of Tennessee. Membership in the organization is composed of participating parents who home educate their child(ren) in speech and debate according to League of Christian Communicators (LCC) guidelines. CCT is affiliated with the Tennessee Home Education Association (THEA).
Resolved: CCT strives to provide home-educated youth with formal speech and debate skills requisite to articulate truth and defend their faith. Our mission is to facilitate the training necessary to raise up future generations of Godly leaders who demonstrate Christ-like love manifested through a servant's heart.
CCT Purposes and Goals
Purpose 1: Christian Communicators of Tennessee exists to support homeschool families in the training of their children to be light to the world through the development of Christ-centered communication skills.
Purpose 2: CCT strives to be academically focused, teaching and encouraging the development of formal speech and debate skills. Training in the art of logic and rhetoric, when coupled with a focus on maintaining a Christ-like character and attitude, provides an essential foundation of skills that allows home-education youth to be able to articulate and defend a stand for truth.
Purpose 3: CCT endeavors in all efforts to provide communication training in a manner that is family friendly, in all ways recognizing and supporting the parent’s God-given authority and responsibility as the stewards of their children’s spiritual, moral, and educational training and development.
