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Over 550 students made a decision for Christ during 2016-2017!
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Leader’s Summit Registration is Open
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for First Priority’s 13th Annual Leader’s Summit that will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at Valleydale Church (NEW LOCATION). This year, our focus will be “Fight the Good Fight” based from 1 Timothy 6:11-14. We hope you will go ahead and start registering your students now. Click here for more info and to register.
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We will have T-shirts available for purchase at Leader’s Summit for $15 each. Please go ahead and share the T-shirt design with your students.
If you are not able to attend, but would still like to help, please sponsor a school to attend today. We need people like you who understand the dire need to train a generation of leaders for the cause of Christ to sponsor a school to attend this unique event. We need your help with sponsoring these schools because there are various expenses such as substitute teacher and transportation costs equaling $150 per school. To sponsor a school, please click here. Please keep the students, teachers, campus coaches and speakers in your prayers.
Mark your calendars for See You at the Pole
See You at the Pole 2017
“Fix our eyes”
We would like to invite you to mark your calendars now for this year’s See You at the Pole™ (SYATP). We hope you will join the tens of thousands of students in our area and millions world-wide on Wednesday, September 27, as they participate in the 27th annual SYATP. Before school, students will join together at their school’s flagpole to pray for their friends, families, teachers, school, city, state and nation to God. SYATP is a student-initiated, student-organized and student-led event.
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This year’s SYATP theme is “Fix our eyes” and the scripture verse is Hebrews 12:2 – “fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” This year’s theme message encourages us to fix our eyes on Jesus and seek him. With the current state of our country, we believe this year’s theme is perfect. We are encouraging students, school faculty, families, businessmen and women, everyone, to cry out in prayer for our nation. Participate in local prayer gatherings and Saw You at the Pole rallies. Please contact your local schools for more info.
We hope you will plan to join us in prayer on Wednesday, September 27. Be on the lookout for resources and listing of local rallies coming soon. In the meantime, please visit syatp.com for more info.
Will you pray for our students as they return to school?
Students are starting back to school this month and they need our prayers. Please join us in praying for students, teachers, faculty and administration. Praying for the students in our area is not just a privilege…it’s a necessity. Students live in a tough world! Each day, students are subjected to literally thousands of offensive images and words. They also face an enormous amount of peer pressure to become part of what is considered normal by the world’s standards. Without prayer, these students will not be able to stand against the insurmountable odds they will face from childhood until they leave this world. Please pray for the safety of each school campus. Please be in constant prayer for students who don’t know Christ. Pray that Christian students will be bold in sharing their faith and that God will take away any fears they may have. When you pass by a school, pray for that school. Make a school zone your prayer zone. Plan a community-wide prayer walk around the schools in your area. The prayers for our students and schools are endless. We have put together prayer resources to help you. The resources below include 24 Biblical virtues that you can pray over students as well as prayer guides to assist with areas of prayer for students, their families, teachers and school administration. Will you join this prayer movement? Commit today to pray!
Prayer Resources:
Don’t miss our last round of golf in 2017!
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Shop on Prime Day and support First Priority at the same time!
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Amazon Prime Members, shop on Prime Day and support First Priority at the same time!
Amazon Prime members, shop at smile.amazon.com on Prime Day Tuesday, July 11, and Amazon will donate a percentage of the purchase to First Priority.
Amazon’s third-annual Prime Day is tomorrow and will feature more than 100,000 deals exclusively for Prime members, making it one of the biggest shopping days of the year. When you #StartWithaSmile on #PrimeDay, Amazon donates to First Priority. Shop for great deals HERE.
Amazon’s program called AmazonSmile allows shoppers to select their favorite charitable organization to receive 0.5% of the purchase as a contribution from Amazon. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know, the same products, same prices, same service! The benefit: you are helping First Priority reach students with the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
CLICK HERE to get started today. Designate First Priority of Alabama as your charity of choice and start shopping! You will know your purchase is supporting First Priority when you see, “Supporting First Priority of Alabama” in the top left corner of Amazon’s Web site.
Start with a smile on Prime Day! We truly appreciate your support!
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Recap and pictures from Trussville Golf Tournament
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Shop for dad and support First Priority at the same time!
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Shop for dad and support First Priority at the same time!
Make dad smile… buy your Father’s Day gifts at smile.amazon.com, and Amazon will donate a percentage of the purchase to First Priority. Father’s Day is THIS Sunday, June 18, so get those last minute gifts now HERE. It’s simple; shop for dad and support First Priority at the same time! Amazon has a large variety of gifts that are perfect for Father’s Day including electronics, clothing and more.
Amazon’s program called AmazonSmile allows shoppers to select their favorite charitable organization to receive 0.5% of the purchase as a contribution from Amazon. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know, the same products, same prices, same service! The benefit: you are helping First Priority reach students with the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
CLICK HERE to get started today. Designate First Priority of Alabama as your charity of choice and start shopping! You will know your purchase is supporting First Priority when you see, “Supporting First Priority of Alabama” in the top left corner of Amazon’s Web site.
Make dad smile this Father’s Day! We truly appreciate your support!
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Join our Race to 100 Challenge!
What if I told you that for just $25 per month a student’s life could be changed forever? Yes, you read that right! That’s a large pizza and an order of bread sticks once a month. We would like to inform you about our Race to 100 campaign. We’re racing to find 100 people to give $25 per month for the next 12 months. That’s $300 a year. Your monthly gift will be used immediately to develop campus ministry for students on their local school campuses. Our goal is to reach every school in 22 school systems across central Alabama; that’s nearly 170,000 students. But, we can’t do this alone, we need your help. Will you prayerfully consider joining our race and giving $25 per month for the next 12 months?
The following are 12 important reasons to join the Race to 100:
- The largest mission field in the state of Alabama is the public school.
- More students will be equipped to share the Gospel with their peers.
- New resources will be developed to train students with evangelistic tools to share the Gospel.
- New First Priority clubs in middle and high schools will be started across our area.
- We will be able to reach a younger generation by starting new FPKids clubs in elementary schools.
- We will hear more student testimonies of “I came to know Christ through my First Priority club.” For some students, First Priority is the only youth group they are exposed to.
- First Priority’s HOPE Strategy works! Students come to know Christ every month.
- First Priority connects local churches as the body of Christ to build the Kingdom of God.
- A First Priority volunteer will make a difference in the lives of hopeless students.
- You will help students promote See You at the Pole on their local school campuses.
- You will help provide doughnuts, biscuits, pizza, drinks and other incentives for more students to attend club meetings and hear the Gospel.
- Students who respond to the Gospel will continue to be followed-up with by the local church.
For more than 25 years, First Priority has worked with local churches to raise up a generation of students who will choose to make Jesus Christ their First Priority. For years, church leaders have heard the claim that nearly nine out of 10 Christians accept Jesus as their Savior before the age of 18. If that statistic was accurate in the past, it no longer depicts U.S. society. Now Barna says that, “If Jesus is not already part of their lives by the time they leave junior high school, the chance of them accepting Him as their Lord and Savior is very slim (6% to be exact).” That is why we unite the body of Christ with a plan of action to influence the school with the Gospel.
Please prayerfully consider continuing your important partnership with the ministry of First Priority by joining our Race to 100. Thank you for your continuous support!
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