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You’re Invited To Our Benefit Dinner & Silent Auction!

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We’re very excited to invite you to First Priority’s Benefit Dinner that will be held on Thursday, March 16, 2023, at Metropolitan Church of God. We will be having a silent auction sponsored by Priority Kids that will begin at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. Our keynote speaker is Ricky Brooks, Former Express Oil Change CEO and President of National Christian Foundation Alabama. You will also receive the pleasure of experiencing a First Priority club meeting by students so you can see firsthand how our clubs operate on school campuses. Click below for all the details about the Dinner, including table sponsorship information. Join us for an incredible evening of fun and learn more about the renewal of the movement in our city!

Please help more students hear the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ by taking part in our upcoming Benefit Dinner. And please don’t forget to send this information to any business or friend groups you think might be interested in participating as well!

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Thank YOU for making a difference in 2022!

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Thank You and Happy New Year!

We pray you and your family have had a spectacular start to the New Year! It is incredibly important to us at First Priority to take a few moments to thank you for your involvement and share with you some highlights of everything God did through the ministry during 2022! Your generosity and faithful prayer support have truly helped make a difference in the lives of children and teens, and we are extremely grateful. God is on the move in and through this generation of students, and they are ready to change the world for His glory!

Your Impact In 2022

$116,000

We set a $100,000 goal for our year-end Victory Matching Challenge campaign. You helped us EXCEED that goal!  Because of your generosity, over $116,000 was raised!

781

781 salvation decisions were reported from our campus clubs across the Greater Birmingham area. Praise God!

6,000

6,000 students, on average, are attending First Priority and Priority Kids clubs.

115

115 active First Priority and Priority Kids clubs meet regularly.

481

481 student leaders have been trained.

You’re Helping Us Change Lives

Because of your prayer and support:

  • We hosted Leader’s Summits in January and September with hundreds of students in attendance and over 35 student leadership teams trained!
  • During Teacher Appreciation Week, we were able to deliver “Thank you” gifts to every faculty sponsor as well as dozens of goody baskets to school administrative staff across the city.
  • We hosted approximately 70 church leaders from around the area at a City-wide Luncheon where the First Priority model was presented.
  • We were able to participate in various community, missions, and youth events to raise awareness of First Priority.
  • Back-to-school prayer events were a huge success and prepared the way for a successful start to the school year.
  • Student leaders from two campuses were able to give doughnuts, along with invitations to attend their FP club, to every single student in their schools as a reward for winning club attendance challenges throughout the year.
  • “See You at the Pole” campus prayer meetings across the area showed tremendous turnout with thousands of students coming together to pray for their campuses.
  • We finished the year with 115 clubs and more are being added regularly!
  • Healthy things grow. Just as the ministry awareness and reach has grown, our staff has also grown! We hired Jody Trautwein as an Area Coordinator in February 2022. His wife, Sunny, was hired at the start of this year as our Communications and Event Coordinator. Casey Crumpton, who previously served as a teacher sponsor at Shelby County High School, was hired this month as a Network Representative. A new intern from Samford University also started this week!
  • We’re bringing back our banquet! On March 16, 2023, from 6:00-8:00 p.m., First Priority and Priority Kids will be hosting a Benefit Dinner and Silent Auction. We are thrilled to have President of the National Christian Foundation – Alabama and Former CEO of Express Oil Change Ricky Brooks as our keynote speaker. The evening will also include a time of student-led worship and a live campus club demonstration. Stay tuned as more details will be released soon!

 

When writing over 100 personal thank you cards a few weeks ago (pictured), we were simply overwhelmed with the goodness of God and gratitude for His generous love. The words from the first chapter of Philippians continually ring in our hearts: “Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy, for you have been my partners in spreading the Good News about Christ from the time you first heard it until now.” – Philippians 1:3-5

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FINAL hours to have your gift matched!

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In case you missed it, check out this video to learn how your gift makes a difference in the lives of students!

Thank you once again for your prayer and support during 2022. We hope you will continue your partnership with us and help students reach their peers for Christ…they can’t do it alone. Our 32 year history shows us that for every $10 given to First Priority, we are able to share Gospel Hope with a student on the public school campus. We do this by empowering Christian students to share Jesus with their peers and friends at school. Will you help us reach more kids and teens than ever before? And, before midnight, your gift will be matched allowing even more students to be reached with Gospel truth.

If you have already given a year-end gift, thank you for your generosity! If you haven’t sent a gift yet, please let me take a moment to remind you that there’s no better time to continue your partnership with First Priority! Your gift before TONIGHT at 11:59 p.m. will be immediately doubled and have twice the impact in young lives during our 2022 Victory Matching Challenge. Can I count on your support to help reach more students in 2023?

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We are counting on people like you who understand how important it is that every last student has the opportunity to hear and respond to the Gospel before they enter adulthood.

HURRY, only 2 days left to have your gift matched!

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Change A Child's Life Today!

Check out this video to learn how you can partner with us to make a difference in the lives of students!

Thank you for your support and partnership during 2022! You helped us relaunch and start brand new First Priority and Priority Kids elementary clubs where 6,000 students attend weekly! We’re celebrating 600 decisions for Christ that have been reported in our First Priority and Priority Kids clubs this school year thus far! Wow, God is so good!

While we have 115 active clubs, that is not even half of the campuses we are called to reach. There is still more work to be done. Would you partner with us to make sure Every Last One has an opportunity to hear about Jesus? Please help students continue to reach their peers for Christ, they can’t do it alone. First Priority students desperately need our prayers, help and support to reach this generation with the life-changing Gospel of Christ. Together, we can reach more students in 2023.

If you have already given a year-end gift, thank you for your generosity! If you haven’t sent a gift yet, please let me take a moment to remind you that there’s no better time to continue your partnership with First Priority! Your gift before THIS Saturday, December 31, at 11:59 p.m. will be immediately doubled and have twice the impact in young lives during our 2022 Victory Matching Challenge. Can I count on your support?

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There’s Still Time To Make A Difference For Twice The Impact!

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First Priority Student Leader Marina Testimony

Dear First Priority Partner,

I invite you to take one minute to watch the video above as First Priority Student Leader Marina shares why First Priority is important on her school campus. Did you know that suicide is the second leading cause of death amongst teenagers? Students are lonely and struggling with anxiety and despair. They are craving relationships. They need community and personal connections. They need to be seen and loved. Most importantly, students need Jesus. First Priority provides a safe environment where students know they can open up about struggles, find friends and hope.

Will you help these students today? If you have already given a gift to our year-end campaign, thank you for your generosity! If you haven’t sent a gift yet, there is still time for you personally to make a difference in the lives of students all across the Birmingham area. Your gift will be matched through Saturday, December 31, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. for twice the impact! Will you invest in this generation?

Keeping Christ the First Priority,

Debi DeBoer
Ministry Director

Together, We Can Reach More Students With Hope

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Check out this video to learn how your gift makes a difference in the lives of students!

Dear Partner,

You’ve received several emails from us over the past month about the incredible opportunity you have to impact students’ lives all across Greater Birmingham. Did you know there are over 163,000 students in public schools around the Greater-Birmingham Area? It is our goal to reach Every Last One with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Together, we can reach more students in 2023. These are our kids and grandkids. They need our support now more than ever!

This is an especially important time to give to First Priority… Some friends of First Priority have gotten together to challenge the ministry to raise $100,000 through THIS Saturday, December 31, and they will match every penny donated! We hope you will consider giving a gift for our year-end Victory Matching Challenge.

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If you have already given a gift to our year-end campaign, thank you for your generosity! If you haven’t sent a gift yet, there is still time for you personally to make a difference in the lives of students all across the Birmingham area. Your gift will be matched through Saturday, December 31, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. We hope to hear from you soon!

Blessings,
Debi DeBoer
Ministry Director