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Reversing the 70% College faith drop-off and equipping students to impact Universities

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Benefits to churches

• Reverse the 70% college faith drop-off and empower students to impact universities
• Video material you can use to engage your youth group - grades 9-12
• If you want to serve a local university, you can add your church to ESS so incoming students find you.
• 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.
• A youth leader dashboard to quickly show you who is engaged and who needs help.

How Every Student Sent Helps:

Career/Purpose

Parents

Christian Schools

Simple steps to make students and parents aware of Every Student Sent are in the College-Bound Kit.

How EveryStudentSent.org helps Churches

Your goal as a church is to develop life-long disciples and world-changers who have a passion to make disciples themselves.  This is often cut short. A Navigators study showed that the connections made during the first 72 hours on campus often dictate life-time spiritual trajectories.  Connecting in advance has been shown to reverse much of the 70% college faith drop-off, and becomes the best opportunity of a lifetime to influence new students for Christ!   Creating tangible experiences for 10-12th grade students makes all the difference. ESS helps you and your parents disciple students for the life in front of them including Career, Calling and college prep to minimize student debt.    To fully explore www.EveryStudentSent.org, and this page, you will first need to register above as a Youth Minister or Parent. 

• Now students can connect and chat with campus ministries and churches at nearly every US university, and interact in social groups run by campus ministries and churches so they land on campus with a team already!
• Give all high school students a tangible and exciting vision for mission at their future secular or Christian university.  The social space allows them to sample and engage with campus ministry even in the time of COVD shutdown.
• Help juniors, seniors, and parents select universities based on getting to know ministries and students on campus.  Includes college prep resources and discipleship tools you and families can use to identify major, career, & calling, and to avoid crippling student debt. 
• A Youth Pastor Dashboard allows you to upload all your students and see their level of engagement with no extra effort. How to upload students,
• Hold Some Great Youth Group Meetings!
  • Thrive Course.  Show one or more of the eleven 10-minute videos with discussion questions about mission at college,.  Students love this.
  • Worldview - Watch these Summit Ministries videos together and discuss.
  • Exploring Colleges - Put Every Student Sent on a big monitor and start calling out and exploring ministries together at colleges.  Even sophomores love thinking about the future.
  • Show testimonies of college students and awakenings. Use this growing list of videos to spark discussions about God's work in their hearts and an exciting future. 
  Attract University Students to your Church - If your church serves local college students, you can be listed on one or more universities and community colleges so to that incoming students find you. (Start this campus group via "My Sent Hub" to apply.
• Helps your church become a catalyst for your city so that all churches and Christian schools are increasing the number of disciples who make disciples.  See City Movement Page.  

Introductory Zoom call - Every Student Sent is simple to use, and you can just follow the steps below, but we are glad to set up a Zoom call to demonstrate the platform and answer any questions from your team.  We can also  help you every step of the way in getting quickly set up, or you can do so yourself.  There is no cost to any of this.  You may contact John Decker at 315-480-1232 or john.decker@campusrenewal.org 

• Log in as a Youth Minister.   Multiple staff can do so, or they can log on as a parent.
• Notify your church.   Share the Media Kit video in church to engage students and parents.
• Email students starting with a sample email in the Media Kit.  This will encourage them to try out ESS, search colleges, chat online with ministries, join their social groups, and start taking the Thrive Course.
• Email parents, inviting them to use Every Student Sent with their teen.  Include the ESS Parents Page.  A sample email will be in the Media Kit
• Upload students into your Dashboard. Follow these steps or we can help you over Zoom.
• Hold some Youth Group meetings:  Students love talking about their future. Play the 1-minute intro video and demonstrate how to search colleges taking suggestions of which ones from your teens.  Show one or more of the Thrive Course videos and discuss how to think missionally about college.

OTHER STEPS YOU CAN TAKE

• Set up your Church and Pastor Dashboard.  We can do this for you, or you can follow these steps   This will allow you to upload all your students by graduation year, automatically invite them, and see their level of engagement at a glance with no additional work on your part. We recommend that you upload grades 10-12.  See contact information at the bottom if you would like some help.

• 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.
• Add your church to local university listings.  Go to Create a Group in "My Sent Hub" and create a separate group for each college so that incoming students find you.
• 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.