EveryStudentSent.org  |   Main Menu

Are you an athlete?  Are you headed to college but unsure if you will be playing collegiate athletics?  Have you been involved in FCA and would love to stay connected with a Christian community as you enter college?

The ESS Social Platform & Learning System - 60 Seconds

If you are in the Greater Kansas City area, join this FCA social group for students and 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  |   Main Menu

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.

• Find their purpose, major, career and best college for them. See link. 

• 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. 

• Be prepared for mission with video courses about multiplying disciples  of worldview and apologetics.  See link. 

• Join other students in their chosen academic department to influence campus culture and be ready to do the same in the workplace.  See link.

• 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.

• Find internships, employment, and fellowship in their new city during and after college.  See link

 Every Student Sent Ministry Partners

For questions, contact:

John Decker, Director of Partnerships: john.decker@everystudentsent.org 

1. Resister as a Youth Leader on www.EveryStudentSent.org and fill out their profile plus photo.
2. Ask your high school students to register on www.EveryStudentSent.orgStudnetSent.org and fill out their profile plus photo.
   • You can send them Every Student Sent - Students.
   • The College-Bound Kit 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.
   • If your huddle is in Greater Kansas City you can join and invite students to join the FCA Kansas City ESS social group.  This can also be useful for college students and alumni to stay connected as they move on.
3. Watch Video material  your group to engage with them about their future - grades 9-12
4. Parents appreciate the practical help for them in college search, ways to talk with their students, finding career and major, and avoiding massive college debt.
5. Purpose/Career/Major - 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.
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.

AUTOMATICALLY INVITE YOUR STUDENTS

• Inviting Students to the Youth Leader Dashboard.  Just follow these Directions.   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.

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

• 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, and this City Movement Page. 
• Volunteers - See the ESS Ambassadors page about ways parents and students can help.

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 

• Further help defining career objectives with our partner Career Direct

• Forming missional communities within each academic department.  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

• An internship and Career acquisition service similar to Indeed.  See NextLead.

EveryStudentSent.org 

To ask questions, request free assistance, or to arrange an introductory Zoom call just contact us below: