--- title: FCA4LIFE --- [![Every Student Sent](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/EveryStudentSent_LoggedIn/images/header_logo.png?width=600&height=320&name=header_logo.png "Every Student Sent")](https://everystudentsent.org) - [Get Started](https://everystudentsent.org/join/) - [Login](https://everystudentsent.org/login-new/) - [Blog](https://everystudentsent.org/blog/) - [Give](https://everystudentsent.org/?form=FUNMFHJUNNE) # FCA for Life ### FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES [MEET OTHER FCA FRIENDS HERE](https://everystudentsent.org/register/) ## FCA for Life ## HIGH SCHOOL to COLLEGE to BEYOND #### THIS IS A DRAFT INTERNAL PAGE FOR DISCUSSION #### FCA for Life is a pilot program in collaboration withe Every Student Sent, starting in Columbus Ohio, led by [Rye D'Orazio](mailto:rdorazio@fca.org). ![FCA for Life infographis](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/FCA%20for%20Life%20infographis.png "FCA for Life infographis") #### Get Prepared - Get Connected - Stay Connected for Life #### Process when students download the App: - #### Students click: "Have been involved with FCA" whether from FCA high school  huddles, camps, FCA Sports, Adventure, etc. - #### Get prepared for life in college, mission, and college major - #### Connect with FCA experienced students at their new university, regardless of whether they are part of a College Huddle - #### After College - Find FCA experienced people before they land in their new city upon graduation #### This creates a large and ever growing national and local community of FCA people for fellowship, volunteers, prayer teams and donors. #### [FCA Huddle Meeting Guide](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/FCA%20HUDDLE%20ESS%20Devo.pdf?hsLang=en) #### [Handout for Huddle](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/CNY%20Student%20Focus%20QR%20Code%20Page_.pdf?hsLang=en) ### See this page for Student Leaders, Field Staff & Coaches [![ChatGPT Image Aug 30, 2026, 08\_06\_08 AM](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/ChatGPT%20Image%20Aug%2030%2c%202026%2c%2008_06_08%20AM.png?width=2000&height=671&name=ChatGPT%20Image%20Aug%2030%2c%202026%2c%2008_06_08%20AM.png "ChatGPT Image Aug 30, 2026, 08_06_08 AM")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/fca?hsLang=en) [![Learn more and log into the free ESS national platform 1](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/Learn%20more%20and%20log%20into%20the%20free%20ESS%20national%20platform%201.png "Learn more and log into the free ESS national platform 1")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/students-1?hsLang=en) If you are in the Greater Kansas City area, join this [FCA social group](https://everystudentsent.org/groups/fca-kansas-city/) for students and leaders. ## FOR FCA STAFF, LEADERS, COACHES,  VOLUNTEERS, PARENTS, & STUDENT LEADERS ## This Every Student Sent page for FCA describes how student leaders, staff, volunteers, parents, and coaches can share the ESS App to provide a social online community for students to prepare for college and start with a team of friends and leaders.  At the end of this page is a section about helping FCA-connected students while in college, then transitioning to the workplace and community in their new city upon graduation. ## [EveryStudentSent.org](http://www.everystudentsent.org)  |   [Main Menu](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/engage-1?hsLang=en) #### Helping youth leaders and parents prepare high school juniors and seniors to be disciple-makers and start college with a missional team of other incoming students and leaders many months before college.  The 70% faith drop-off reversed, campuses awakened, students prepared for the marketplace. ![3 Circles Revival-Awakening-Reformation](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/3%20Circles%20Revival-Awakening-Reformation.png?width=960&height=260&name=3%20Circles%20Revival-Awakening-Reformation.png)   ## Every Student Sent helps 10-12th grade FCA huddle students: - #### Find their purpose, major, career and best college for them. [See link.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/career-direct-1?hsLang=en) - #### Connect in advance with other incoming students, roommates, and ministry leaders from major college ministries at any US community college or university.   Also connect with other FCA students. [See link.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/students-1?hsLang=en) - #### Be prepared for mission with video courses about multiplying disciples  of worldview and apologetics.  [See link](https://everystudentsent.org/courses/). - #### Join other students in their chosen academic department to influence campus culture and be ready to do the same in the workplace.  [See link.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/marketplace?hsLang=en) - #### Return to their High School huddle during Christmas break to energize students with stories of faith and leading others to Jesus during the [Fall Sweetspot](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/sweetspot?hsLang=en). - #### Find internships, employment, and fellowship in their new city during and after college.  [See link](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/marketplace?hsLang=en) ## Every Student Sent Ministry Partners ![ESS Logos on top - 5 Lines](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/ESS%20Logos%20on%20top%20-%205%20Lines.png "ESS Logos on top - 5 Lines") ## For questions, contact: John Decker, Director of Partnerships: [john.decker@everystudentsent.org](mailto:john.decker@everystudentsent.org)  ## CBN News - How ESS Works # How Every Student Sent Helps FCA: [![Students on campus (2)](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Students%20on%20campus%20(2).jpg?width=2000&height=1125&name=Students%20on%20campus%20(2).jpg "Students on campus (2)")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/students-1?hsLang=en) #### Students [![fund parents](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/fund%20parents.jpg "fund parents")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/families?hsLang=en) #### Parents [![church image](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/church%20image.jpg "church image")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/churches-1?hsLang=en) #### Churches [![career direct box](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/career%20direct%20box.jpg?width=1280&height=720&name=career%20direct%20box.jpg "career direct box")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/career-direct-1?hsLang=en) #### Career & Major [![Marketplace Rectangle](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/Marketplace%20Rectangle.png "Marketplace Rectangle")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/marketplace?hsLang=en) #### Prep for Marketplace [![City Movement Rectangle](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/City%20Movement%20Rectangle.png "City Movement Rectangle")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/city-movements-1?hsLang=en) #### Your City [![Kansas City Square](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Kansas%20City%20Square.png?width=1280&height=720&name=Kansas%20City%20Square.png "Kansas City Square")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/kc-1?hsLang=en) #### Kansas City [![DFW Block](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/DFW%20Block.png "DFW Block")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/dfw?hsLang=en) #### Dallas - Ft Worth [![San Diego Block](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/San%20Diego%20Block.png "San Diego Block")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/sandiego?hsLang=en) #### Southern Cal ## [![Courses Rectangle](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Courses%20Rectangle.png?width=1070&height=377&name=Courses%20Rectangle.png)](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/dfw?hsLang=en)   # Steps to Engage your Students 1. **Resister as a Youth Leader on [www.EveryStudentSent.org](http://www.EveryStudentSent.org) and fill out their profile plus photo.** 2. **Ask your high school students** to register on [www.EveryStudentSent.org](https://everystudentsent.org/)StudnetSent.org and fill out their profile plus photo. - You can send them [Every Student Sent - Students.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/students-1?hsLang=en) - The [College-Bound Kit](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/gradkit?hsLang=en) has media and prepared emails you can use. - Optionally you can use a spreadsheet to invite all and watch their progress on your [Student Dashboard.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/dashboard?hsLang=en) - If your huddle is in Greater Kansas City you can join and invite students to join the [FCA Kansas City ESS social group.](https://everystudentsent.org/groups/fca-kansas-city/) This can also be useful for college students and alumni to stay connected as they move on. 3. [**Watch Video material**](https://everystudentsent.org/courses/) your group to engage with them about their future - grades 9-12 4. **[Parents](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/families?hsLang=en) appreciate the practical help** for them in college search, ways to talk with their students, [finding career and major](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/career-direct-1?hsLang=en), and avoiding [massive college debt](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/college-assistance-plus-1?hsLang=en). 5. [**Purpose/Career/Major**](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/career-direct-1?hsLang=en)- Students love practical discussions about their future, and finding their purpose will serve them for a lifetime.  See also how this connects them to missional communities in their[academic department.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/marketplace?hsLang=en) 6. **ESS Social groups in their high school.**  When a student registers on ESS and indicates their high school, they are automatically put into an ESS social group there, so they can meet other Christian students.  FCA huddles can create a group within the schools so that students find you. Go to My Sent Hub \> Create a Group \> Pick School from Dropdown 7. **National or State FCA ESS Social Groups** - You can create these, which are like Facebook groups.  Follow above directions. [![College-bound 2021 photo](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/College-bound%202021%20photo.png "College-bound 2021 photo")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/gradkit?hsLang=en) ## Media to Share with your Huddle [![Worldview Quad](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/Worldview%20Quad.png "Worldview Quad")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/worldview?hsLang=en) ## Worldview Partner Resources **AUTOMATICALLY INVITE YOUR STUDENTS** - **Inviting Students to the Youth Leader Dashboard.**  Just follow [these Directions](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/dashboard?hsLang=en).   This will allow you to easily invite all your students by graduation year, and see their level of engagement at a glance with no additional work on your part. We recommend that you invite grades 10-12.  See contact information at the bottom if you would like some help. [![Send Team image](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Send%20Team%20image.jpg?width=2276&name=Send%20Team%20image.jpg)](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/dashboard?hsLang=en) [![Girl with coffee no play button](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/Girl%20with%20coffee%20no%20play%20button.jpg "Girl with coffee no play button")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/students-1?hsLang=en) #### Page to share with Students Video player - Video Thumbnail 70-1 - Click to play video #### Parent Video ## College Majors, Purpose, and Careers ## Student Career Arc from HS to College to the Workplace Barna Report - Vocational Discipleship *Barna believes this emphasis on careers presents an opportunity for the church to engage in what could be called “vocational discipleship”. The church has an opportunity to reach this next generation of teenagers through integrating career, and calling into their discipleship efforts.* ESS can provide video material for you to hold a huddle meeting about career, major, and God's unique purpose for every person.  (Ephesians 2:10 [![career direct box](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/career%20direct%20box.jpg "career direct box")](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/career-direct-1?hsLang=en) Career and Major Preparation # Click image to learn how 10-12th grade students can learn more about their personal design and find a college major leading to a career tied to their purpose. This is done through taking a assessment, then having the parent and student join a personal Zoom meeting with trained counselors to unpack the findings and get specific guidance regarding possible careers and associated college majors.  Also see [ESS - Marketplace readiness.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/marketplace?hsLang=en) ## Further ways to bless students in your huddle - **During Junior and Senior college search,** encourage students to make ministry and church connections part of their selection criteria. - **As soon as final colleges are selected in the senior year**, recommend students become an active member in ministry social groups at that university and team up with other incoming students, and collaborate how to reach their dorms during first weeks Sweet Spot. - **During Christmas break,** invite your recent grads to share with your students about their first semester in college, and how helpful it was during the first weeks to already have friends, mentors, and study partners, and how they had seen students come to Christ and be transformed.  Take the energy there and adopt a local high school in collaboration with our high school partners like Youth Alive, FCA, Cru High School, YFC, Young Life, etc. - **Bless your community.**   Spread the good news about Every Student Sent to all other churches and Christian schools in your community.  Send this [ESS Churches Page,](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/churches?hsLang=en) and this [City Movement Page](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/city-movements?hsLang=en). - Volunteers - See the [ESS Ambassadors page](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/ambassadors-1?hsLang=en) about ways parents and students can help. ## During college and after graduation #### Every Student Sent has current and future features for college students, and for the transition to the workplace and life in their new city after graduation: #### Current features: - ##### Preparation for job acquisition and transition to the workplace with our partner [Baton Exchange](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/workplace?hsLang=en) - ##### Further help defining career objectives with our partner [Career Direct](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/career-direct-1?hsLang=en) - ##### Forming missional communities within[each academic department.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/marketplace?hsLang=en) This helps students learn to multiply disciples and influence culture in a professional environment, so that they are ready to do the same in the workplace.  Marketplace ministries and Christian professional societies help with expertise, mentoring and future job connections.  Contact us about starting this at your university. Features under development - ##### ESS Social Network to maintain and find connections with other FCA-related students and grads.  See pilot [FCA-Kansas City ESS group](https://everystudentsent.org/groups/fca-kansas-city/) - ##### An internship and Career acquisition service similar to Indeed.  See [NextLead.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/NextLead%20Mission%20Overview%20b.pdf?hsLang=en)   **Every Student Sent is supported by generous donors.   [Supporting and Accelerating Every Student Sent.](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/impact-1?hsLang=en)** [**Every Student Sent**](http://www.everystudentsent.org/)is a national movement and a free community-based platform to connect all US high school students to existing ministries, churches, and each other many months before college in order to propel them towards Gospel-centered mission as they navigate and engage culture.. See this [call to action by Josh McDowell](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/joshcta?hsLang=en)[.](https://bit.ly/ESSjosh)  No longer do you and parents have to see years of love and investment into students go down the drain. [EveryStudentSent.org](http://www.EveryStudentSent.org)  #### To ask questions, request free assistance, or to arrange an introductory Zoom call just contact us below:   [![Every Student Sent](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/raw_assets/public/EveryStudentSent_LoggedIn/images/footer_logo.png?width=200&name=footer_logo.png "Every Student Sent")](https://everystudentsent.org/) Every Student Sent is a unique community-based platform with vision of connecting students to existing ministries, churches, and each other in order to propel them towards Gospel-centered mission as they navigate and engage culture during college. - [About](https://everystudentsent.org/vision/) - [Blog](https://everystudentsent.org/blog/) - [Vision](https://everystudentsent.org/vision/) - [Give](https://everystudentsent.org/?form=FUNMFHJUNNE) - [Contact](https://everystudentsent.org/contact/) - [Media Kit](https://everystudentsent.org/mediakit/) © 2021 All rights reserved