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We need your help to train students for the cause of Christ!

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We need your help to send students to
Leader’s Summit!
On Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, First Priority will hold our 12th Annual Leader’s Summit. What makes this event unique from any other in the nation is that we are able to hand-pick the five or ten top Christian leaders from each middle and high school in our area to attend this event with their school’s First Priority club faculty sponsor. With the enthusiastic approval of school board superintendents and principals, these students and teachers are able to attend this Christian-based leadership and training event during the school day as an excused absence. If you follow church and state/school issues in our country, you know this is practically an unprecedented opportunity to train up to 1,000 of our most influential Christian students during the school day.
In past years, we had a sponsorship that allowed us to provide this event free of charge to students and teachers as well as provide a T-shirt, workbook and lunch for all those in attendance. Due to changing sponsorship commitments, we now ask students for $5 each to help cover the cost of their lunch.
New and more costly challenges arise each year that make it difficult to fund this event adequately – let me explain. Many of our area’s school systems’ budgets are less than in past years. While approving for their students to attend is generally not a problem, now more than ever those who approve this event for their students continue to ask us to help pay for substitute teachers and the transportation costs in order for their schools to participate.
The cost to hold this event will be $15,000 for up to 1,000 students. The help I am asking you for is simple: we need people like you who understand the dire need to train a generation of leaders for the cause of Christ to sponsor students to attend this unique event. Would you help us and graciously sponsor 10 students to attend for $150?
Would you give a gift to help us touch the lives of students all across Central Alabama by empowering those who are best able to influence them for Christ, their peers? Your sponsorship of 10 or more students will have a long reaching impact as those who attend make a positive difference in the lives of many fellow students at their schools.

Let’s not miss this opportunity. Please help us not to have to tell even one of the school’s students they cannot attend due to the lack of funding. Please prayerfully consider how you can help. We truly appreciate your support!

Leader's Summit will be in SEPTEMBER – Save the date!

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Mark your calendars now for our 12th Annual Leader’s Summit in September! 

We would like to invite you to join First Priority for our 12th Annual Leader’s Summit that will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, at Southeastern Bible College. We hope you will take a moment to mark your calendars now. We are taking a different approach this year. It will still be a one-day conference, only it will be at the beginning of the school year and will train students on the HOPE Strategy and prepare them to lead their First Priority club. This year our focus will be “The how to’s of effective campus ministry.” The theme is “Seen” based from 1 Corinthians 2:9. More details and registration will be coming soon. We wanted to go ahead and announce the date now so that you can add it to your calendar. We will keep you updated throughout the summer. We have already begun the approval process with superintendents.
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 $100 per school. To sponsor a school, please CLICK HERE. Please keep the students, teachers, campus coaches and speakers in your prayers.

There’s still time to register for our 11th Annual Leader’s Summit!

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We would like to remind you to register now for our 11th Annual Leader’s Summit that will be held on Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, at Southeastern Bible College. As always, the Summit will feature live music and inspirational messages by some of the nation’s top leaders who will provide in-depth leadership training in timeless skills, making your students and you better leaders in all aspects of campus life. The cost for this year’s Leader’s Summit is $5 per person at the door for all those who pre-register. The registration deadline is Friday, Jan. 22, 2016. The cost is $10 for anyone who registers after Friday, January 22. We are trying to plan accordingly and encourage everyone to register before the deadline. We will send out a schedule for the day and more details closer to the Summit date. Please click here to pre-register your students for the Summit. Please complete the online form and list the names of everyone that will be attending in your group.
Speak with the community volunteers, parents or business leaders who work with your club to help with transportation. Since this event takes place during school hours, we encourage you to apply with your school’s administration for permission to attend. We have enough space for 10 students from each middle, junior high and high school to attend. If you have more than 10 students, please contact our office at 205.871.8886 to check space availability.

We hope you will register now to attend this exciting leadership training event! 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 $100 per school. To sponsor a school, please click here. Please keep the students, teachers, campus coaches and speakers in your prayers. Thank you for your support!