Have you ever tried singing "Jesus Loves Me" to the jingle for Jeopardy? Try it. It works. The members at Woodlawn, West Allis, Wis., found that out last year.

On the Wednesday of Holy Week in Easter 1996, Woodlawn hosted "Jesus in Jeopardy."

"During Lent, we get people in the habit of coming every Wednesday and then we stop during Holy Week," says Reuel Schulz, pastor at Woodlawn. "So we make it a truly Holy Week. We use this Wednesday to keep families involved and make sure the children get more into the Word."

For Lent, confirmation students were assigned to read the last chapters of the gospels. The entire congregation was encouraged to read along.

If the students scored high enough on tests based on the readings, they qualified as contestants on Woodlawn's version of Jeopardy, the television quiz show.

The game was complete with jeopardy and double jeopardy. Some of the topics covered were Maundy Thursday facts, Jesus' seven words, the ABC's of our Savior's passion, and Easter events.

Jenni Schalk, then an eighth grader, won when she correctly answered "Emmaus" as the village to where two disciples were headed when Jesus appeared to them.

The most important aspect of this "game show" was immersing the students--and congregation--in the Word.

"We deal with teenage pregnancies and drugs by immersing the children and the families of Woodlawn in God's Word," Schulz told the congregation during a break in the action.

"We often expect others to take care of our problems," says Schulz. "But we indeed have the best weapon of all--God's Word."