Multiplying the Pipeline of Students to Impact the 7 Spheres of Culture

This page is to introduce Every Student Sent followers to Pinnacle Forum and to assist Pinnacle Forum partners in helping their churches, families, and cities with the transition of youth to college, then the workplace. 

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How ESS impacts the Seven Spheres of Culture

John Decker on Pinnacle Forum

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Connect with PFA Partner John Decker, the City Movement and Partnerships Director for Every Student Sent.

I'd love to learn about your interests and any way I can help families, churches, and businesses in your city benefit by preparing and launching students students into their Sphere of calling. 

Email me here, or schedule a Zoom call.

Testimonies from Pinnacle Forum Partners:

I introduced a Pinnacle Forum partner to Every Student Sent. He got his granddaughter on the site this Spring for her future college and she met three Christian students in a group right away headed to her campus and became friends. He said “my granddaughter is one of the most introverted people I've ever met, and I've never heard her talk more with these three people than ever before."  She's going to go to that campus with these friends who’ve already connected. He cannot be more pleased with what's going on in her life because of Every Student Sent. ~ Jeff Andersen 

My daughter is a Young Life leader and we’ve gotten really involved with this rowdy group of kids on the fringe. She was the real first presenter of the Gospel to them. When we got together a couple of weeks ago I got to chat about what’s next for them with a year left of high school. They have no one to help them get ready and no where to land. I got overwhelmed with the joy I saw when I showed Every Student Sent to them. They lit up, and felt like someone was looking out for them in particular. That meant a lot to me!  - John Willoughby

Watch the Nov 30 ESS Gathering of City & Marketplace Leaders

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Kevin Palau - City Movements

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How ESS Works

Marketplace Ecosystems

High Schools & Parents

College Ministries

Slides from Gathering.  More on Accelerate ESS

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Every Student Sent Partners

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Every Student Sent Partners

Pinnacle Forum plays a unique national role:  Modelling/leading the seven sphere cultural impact

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How ESS helps PFA partners impact your Sphere of Influence 

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The Marketplace

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Career & Purpose

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Help City Movements

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Families

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Churches

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Christian Schools

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Every Student Sent has the mission to impact the seven spheres of culture through missional communities in university academic departments then helping students do the same in the workplace.

You are invited to be a subject matter expert and speak to students individually, group Zooms, or provide content.  See below.

We would be glad to brainstorm with your working group. 

See these notes on ideas

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Introduce

John Decker (john.decker@everystudentsent.org) to:

  • Other PFA partners in your Forum 
  • Invite John to share in your meeting
  • Pastors & Youth Leaders
  • High Schools and Homeschools
  • Ministries, Foundations, Media (Advance ESS)
  • Business Leaders with passion for youth.
  • Retirees who could volunteer (See Retirees)

Volunteer

See Volunteer Page.  Contact John Decker for info.

  • Mentor students re: faith or career
  • Provide 7M content/training for students
  • Marketing, communication or IT expertise
  • Ministry expertise for: Students/Pastors/Parents
  • Network to help organize a City Movement
  • Public speaking or recording content
  • Find volunteers to help the movement.

New to Every Student Sent?  See these introduction pages:

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CBN News - How ESS Works

Student Stories

If you are new to Pinnacle Forum, see below:

Pinnacle Forum and the 7 Spheres of Culture

Every Student Sent partners with marketplace ministries across the US to help transition university grads to the workplace, and so that members of these ministries have the opportunity to be subject matter experts or mentors to students.

If you are not aware of Pinnacle Forum yet, it has a unique focus to bring cultural and reformational change to the various segments of society.  We would be glad to introduce you.  See Pinnacle Forum.

Origen of Pinnacle Forum: Bill Bright from Cru and Loren Cunningham from YWAM were simultaneously shown a vision of how the influencers of society are broken up into seven spheres : Business, Education, Family, Media, Government, Arts/Entertainment, and Religion.

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Bill Bright felt that Cru was successful on the college campus but was not impacting society as a whole to the degree he felt necessary.  He challenged Merrill Oster (see podcast) to raise up 30,000 cultural influencers in the seven spheres, and Pinnacle Forum was born. 

Pinnacle Forum provides weekly Zoom meetings with a small group of men,  as well as groups for women where you can grow together as friends, and consider ways to advance the Kingdom. 

It also has sphere-specific communities and meetings as shown in the second array of 9 boxes below. 

Pinnacle Forum partners - How you can help Bridge to the Marketplace

Every Student Sent invites people experienced in their profession to share this with college and high schools students in a number of ways including local or Zoom sessions with students, recorded content, or one on one mentoring, locally of via Zoom.  We can also connect upcoming college grads with  you in their new city.  Contact John Decker via the form at the bottom of this page. 

Also, click at right to see how we work with with Pinnacle Forum partner John Scroggins to prepare college students for the workplace.

Learn more about Pinnacle Forum here.

For questions about Every Student Sent

Connect with John Decker on LinkedIn

Or Email him using this Form