First Priority of Alabama

The Hope of Christ in Every Student

Join our Race to 100 Challenge!

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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:
  1. The largest mission field in the state of Alabama is the public school.
  2. More students will be equipped to share the Gospel with their peers.
  3. New resources will be developed to train students with evangelistic tools to share the Gospel.
  4. New First Priority clubs in middle and high schools will be started across our area.
  5. We will be able to reach a younger generation by starting new FPKids clubs in elementary schools.
  6. 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.
  7. First Priority’s HOPE Strategy works! Students come to know Christ every month.
  8. First Priority connects local churches as the body of Christ to build the Kingdom of God.
  9. A First Priority volunteer will make a difference in the lives of hopeless students.
  10. You will help students promote See You at the Pole on their local school campuses.
  11. You will help provide doughnuts, biscuits, pizza, drinks and other incentives for more students to attend club meetings and hear the Gospel.
  12. 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!
 

Students take the lead at Hueytown Middle School

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Students take the lead at Hueytown Middle School   
This school year, Hueytown Middle School’s First Priority club has seen some exciting new changes. Ms. Molly Sears became the new faculty sponsor and hit the ground running helping students effectively lead their campus club. First Priority clubs are student initiated and student led. Our faculty sponsors and campus coaches (church leaders), walk alongside students guiding, equipping and encouraging them as they prepare to lead their club. One great change this year at Hueytown Middle was dividing leadership by grade. Each week, a different grade level of students leads the meeting. This gives younger students the opportunity to take on a leadership role and gives older students the chance to be filled with God’s word. The club has grown so much due to these leadership changes that students had to start meeting in a larger room! Speaking in front of a large group can be very scary, especially for middle schoolers. We’re so proud of these young students for overcoming their fears, listening to God’s call and reaching their campus for Christ. We applaud their dedication to making disciples and growing God’s Kingdom no matter the cost.
We are very thankful for our faculty sponsors and campus coaches who work each week with students to make great things like this happen in so many schools. Change can be difficult to accept, but in the end the fruit of positive change always speaks for itself.

Eat at Newk’s and support First Priority!

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Eat at Newk’s and support First Priority! 
We would like to invite you to join us for First Priority Spirit Night at Newk’s on Thursday, September 22, 2016, from 4-9 p.m. Ten percent of every purchase made that evening will directly benefit First Priority. We are very excited about this great opportunity! We hope you will come and enjoy a wonderful dinner and support First Priority at the same time.

First Priority is a strategy for students to share the Love and Hope of Jesus Christ with every student in their school. We connect the CHURCH to the CAMPUS to share CHRIST with students. We are currently in our 26th year of ministry serving elementary, middle, Jr. high and high schools across the nation and world.
First Priority helps the local church extend its ministry to school campuses. We partner together to work with schools to help set-up and organize clubs that meet before school that are student-initiated and student-led. The public school is the largest mission field in America. We provide Christian students with a platform, strategy and support for ongoing effective campus ministry outreach. These students are on a 9-month mission trip when school is in session. None of this would be possible without your help! Please plan to join us on Thursday, September 22, from 4-9 p.m. and help support this great ministry!

What amazing things has God done in your school this year?

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What amazing things has God done in your school this year? We want to hear from you! 

WOW! Can you believe this school year is about to come to a close? It went by so fast! We pray your First Priority club grew over the year and that many lives were changed. We want to hear about those changed lives! It’s that time of year again when we are getting ready to do our First Priority “School Year in Review.” This is a look back at all of our First Priority and FPKids clubs over the school year. We need your help to complete this year’s Review. Please e-mail us the following for your First Priority and/or FPKids club to ashlee@gofirstpriority.com:
– Average weekly attendance and number of salvations/decisions for the 2015-2016 school year
– Pictures of your club, students speaking, praying and living out the HOPE and/or FPKids strategy
– Anything else you’d like to share such as testimonies, student quotes, videos, etc.
Please help us out! We would love to include your pictures and updates in our “School Year in Review.” It will be a great recap of the 2015-2016 school year and you don’t want to miss out! We will be sure to send out the Review once it’s complete.
Please submit all of the above information by Friday, May 6, 2016, to ashlee@gofirstpriority.com. Also, if there will be teacher sponsor or campus coach changes next year, please send that information as well. You may also upload your pictures and videos to our Facebook Page. Thanks for your help!

Download your HOPE Guide for August

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hope manual coverWe are very excited to present to you our August HOPE Guide that assists the First Priority HOPE Strategy for our middle through High school clubs! You will be provided with a detailed guide each month to help you plan your club meetings. If you work with a First Priority club in any way, this is for you! This HOPE Guide is a comprehensive, informational packet of resources that leads, guides and directs teacher sponsors, campus coaches and students in carrying out the HOPE Strategy. It is simple to follow and easy to implement. It will be very beneficial for students when planning club meetings each month. You will be trained on how to use the monthly HOPE Guide at one of the many trainings we are offering in August. In the meantime, we invite you to go ahead and download the August HOPE Guide, review and share it with your leadership team, and begin implementing it. Click here to retrieve the August HOPE Guide. Simply fill in your e-mail address and school, and then you can download the Guide. This is how you will access the monthly guides each month. Don’t hesitate to contact us at 205.871.8886 if you have any problems or questions. Don’t wait; download the August Guide now!

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