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COLLEGE MINISTRIES & COLLEGE AREA CHURCHES
Meet and prepare incoming freshmen before they arrive.
The College Revival Sweet-Spot: Spark Fall Gospel movements with freshmen, when pre-believers are at the most open in their lives. Dorm revivals have happened this way, and Christian freshmen become resilient disciple-makers who will help your campus movement.
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How ESS Works
Every Student Sent prepares and connects incoming high school students so you can build a team to reach other freshmen. Now with the growing help of marketplace ministries from every discipline, helps your ministry and students effectively reach their academic department, followed by transition to their new city upon graduation with leaders within their chosen profession. See ESS Marketplace.
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STEPS TO GET STARTED
Steps for College Ministries and Churches near Campus
- Log onto www.everystudentsent.org with your ministry email or create a new account. Update your profile and include a photo. Use "Forgot Password" if needed. Find your ministry on your campus. If you are shown as the "organizer" you can adjust anything with the Manage feature. If you are not an Organizer, "Follow" the group and request the Organizer to promote you to Co-Organizer. Organizers and Co-Organizers can make any changes to the Group content including adding, or deleting users. Search your university on ESS and see what is already there or what should be added or changed. Email john.decker@campusrenewal.org if you have any questions.
- Add more Leaders - You can invite any number people and student leaders to your ESS Group team. Go to the Manage button on the bottom left of your group, where you can promote any followers to "Co-Organizers or 'Moderators". They will receive an email message when inquiring students are reaching out and see them in the system. Make sure your leaders include a photo of themselves. Warmly welcome students all year long. You can update your group to add more information.
- Post what God is doing in your group. Encourage students and leaders to post within your group, a photo of events and activities to encourage others of what God is doing on your campus. These will show up in the national feed.
- Prepare and disciple incoming high school seniors, and encourage friendships in the ESS group so to that a community of students is ready to hit the ground running and invite other freshmen believers and non-believers to your ministry. Organize them by dorm and academic department to multiply disciples among freshmen. Create chat's in your group and have discussions about an episode in Courses. Zoom is integrated.
- Read below "How you can increase the Wave of 2024 Freshmen".
- If you are planting on an unserved campus, we partner with Every Campus to help attract new students. Email us at john.decker@campusrenewal.org so we can help coordinate with Every Campus.
Invite your students to assist: Student Mobilizers
CATALYZING FRESHMEN GOSPEL MOVEMENTS IN DORMS & ACADEMIC DEPTS
New ESS Mobile App
Every Student Sent is launching the new Mobile App in Winter 2024 accompanied by national advertising to impact the high school class of 2024. See these Saturation Cities as part of the nationally rollout.
MESSAGES FROM LEADERS
Connecting with incoming students early helps multiply the gospel into every corner of the campus. Helping high school students be already prepared to reach other students before landing on campus!
ESS frees you from spending all your time looking for new freshmen". Incoming freshmen you've organized over the summer, can concentrate on bringing their new dorm friends to Christ. Now you can focus on helping new believers reach their non-believing friends in a true discipling and multiplication movement.
Yasmin Pierce - Circuit Riders
The power of the first weeks on campus. Yasmin Pierce from the Circuit Riders and emcee for the Every Campus Back to School event, shares how being prepared in community before college is a key to growing strong and reaching new freshmen in their hour of need.
Josh McDowell - CRU / Josh McDowell Ministry
Mark Gauthier - Exec Dir., CRU
Jason Thomas - Exec Vice President, Intervarsity
How ESS Helps Your Mission
Every Student Sent is designed to make college ministries more effective by connecting you with incoming students you can start discipling long before they land on campus. Students can now be on a team with you and other incoming friends 4 to 12 months in advance. This gives you a cohort prepared to reach out to other freshmen non-believers and as well as Christians from the first days on campus. If you are interested in planting a new ministry on campus, ESS partners with with Every Campus to help you attract new students. Contact John Decker here to learn more.
How ESS helps you with INCOMING FRESHMEN:
- Meet and coach incoming freshmen well before they land on campus. This allows you to form them into missional teams to help lead other incoming freshmen to Christ in their dorms and academic majors.
How ESS helps you with UPPER CLASSMEN:
- Missional communities in academic departments: Helps you form missional communities around their academic major to grow the Kingdom and progressively impact and change the culture of these departments. Doing so in a professional environment prepares them to eventually impact the marketplace. Contact us to learn more.
- Marketplace Ministries: ESS is building a network of Marketplace ministries as subject matter experts to help your students grow in their field as influencers. Content and networking is provided from various sources including Faith Driven Entrepreneurs
- .Preparation for the Marketplace - Students can get one on one or group mentoring/training for job acquisition and transition to their new job and city, and to find a church that values Faith and Work
- In development:
- Connections for students in the city of their first job.
- Christian version of Indeed for internships and jobs. In development
- Calendar for all university Christian events. In development,
- Alumni network
BENEFITS TO COLLEGE MINISTRIES
Freshmen Gospel Movements
A Navigators study showed that the friends a student bonds with during the first 72 hours on campus, often dictate the circle of friends they will stay with and associated faith outcomes. This applies to believers --- and non-believers who are more open to new ideas and new friends than any time in their lives. Connecting in advance is essential. What will it look like in America when it's normal for all high school seniors to connect with ministry ESS social groups while in high school and over summer, to that ministries can develop a team of disciples to reach non-believing freshmen. See this recent encouragement from Josh McDowell.
Benefits to College Ministries
- Attract and meet incoming freshmen long before they land on campus.
- The ESS Social Group for incoming Students allow you to build and a disciple a team a year to many months in advance, ready to reach their new dorm friends during the first days on campus, when non-believers are still without a new peer group, open to new things and looking for friends. These groups already exist for any ministry on the site. When students select a university, they are also added to a University Group where you can interact with them.
- Disciple and Prepare incoming students - using content on this open platform such as the Thrive Course, so students learn to disciple and multiply. More is being added, and you can add your own content to this open platform. Zoom is already integrated into your existing groups and those you create.
- Ongoing content helps your ministry all year - Find a growing set of content for evangelism, discipleship, worldview, apologetics, and practical tools for students to find their career and calling. You can also form missional ESS groups around college majors, interests, sports etc..
- Planting on new campuses or in new corners? ESS groups will help you gather existing students AND attract incoming freshmen as they search the site for your university in cooperation with Every Campus.
Growing the Wave of 2024 Freshmen
Every Student Sent is mobilizing churches, denominations, Christian school, and homeschool associations to send you incoming freshmen. Here are some ways you can massively accelerate this so that colleges are saturated with incoming believers ready to engage students:
- Mobilize your students invite their home church and high schools into ESS. This will expand the Kingdom, and get them into the mindset of receiving incoming freshmen. They can send the above ESS Church Page.
- Invite churches near campus to be on ESS so incoming students find them. Send this ESS Church Page.
- Invite all area churches to use ESS. This will add more local students to your movement and help students everywhere. Serving them will open up partnership and support opportunities for you. See City-Wide Movements.
College Ministry Collaboration Group
Follow/join the new College Leaders Collaboration group to network with leaders, find resources, and participate in monthly Zoom meetings with national collegiate ministry leaders
College Students
You can help spark freshmen & upperclassmen movements on your campus
