--- title: First Priority --- [![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) # First Priority & ESS ### Preparing for College Mission Together [Jump on the ESS Social Platform Here](https://everystudentsent.org/join/) ## For Student Leaders, Staff, Volunteers & Parents ## [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)   ![Austin with words](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hubfs/Austin%20with%20words.png "Austin with words") ## Every Student Sent is a national ministry and is also focusing special Summer 2024 saturation so No Student Starts College Alone in: [![Kansas City Tall](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/Kansas%20City%20Tall.png?width=503&height=321&name=Kansas%20City%20Tall.png)](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/kc-1?hsLang=en) ##### [See: First Priority Club Kansas City](https://firstpriority.club/kansascity/) ## [![](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Jun-11-2024-06-40-44-9345-PM.png?width=1345&height=762&name=image-png-Jun-11-2024-06-40-44-9345-PM.png)](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/ec?hsLang=en) ##### See [First Priority Club South Florida](https://firstpriority.cc/) [![DFW Block](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/DFW%20Block.png?width=493&height=319&name=DFW%20Block.png)](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/dfw?hsLang=en) ##### [See: First Priority Club Fort Worth](https://firstpriority.club/fortworth/) ## The ESS Social Platform & Learning System - 60 Seconds ## Every Student Sent helps 10-12th grade 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 First Priority 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. Experiencing leading friends to Christ supercharges their faith!  [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 group 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) ## Check out the MySharePal App developed in KC to help with Gospel sharing: [![](https://pages.everystudentsent.org/hs-fs/hubfs/image-png-Apr-02-2024-05-35-30-5181-PM.png?width=505&height=76&name=image-png-Apr-02-2024-05-35-30-5181-PM.png)](https://mysharepal.com/)   ## 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") # How Every Student Sent Helps HS Ministries: [![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 ## Use these 10 minute videos and discussion questions in your group meeting or for self study.  We can also upload and distribute your content. ## [![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)   ## For questions go to the bottom of this page or contact: John Decker, Director of Partnerships: [john.decker@everystudentsent.org](mailto:john.decker@everystudentsent.org)  ## CBN News - How ESS Works # Steps to Engage your Students 1. **Register 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](http://www.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. 3. [**Watch Video material**](https://everystudentsent.org/courses/) you can use to engage your youth group - 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.  HS Ministriescan 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 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 group [![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 group 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 group - **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, First Priority, Students Standing Strong, 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.   **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