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In a world filled with stress and pressure to perform, anxiety about cultural expectations, and depression from being isolated to a screen, the culture in America is killing our teenagers from the inside out. We aim to provide hope and inspiration by taking the Hope of Christ to Every Student. We want to provide teens a place to belong, opportunities to make a positive difference, and bring life-changing transformation to their life and those around them. Our core focus is to help 300,000 students in 4,650 different schools experience the hope of Christ by December 31, 2023. This podcast is part of our strategy to get the word out to the believers of Jesus in the United States to help encourage, equip, and empower Christian students to share their hope in Christ with their peers. Listen in and join the movement today!
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Tuesday Aug 17, 2021
Chris Lane is the Executive Director of First Priority South Florida. He has worked for First Priority for 23 years and loves seeing students receive Jesus and know they have eternal life!
Chris and his wife Wendy live in South Florida and together they have four boys.
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
Tuesday Aug 10, 2021
FP South Florida Associate Director Fred Revell talks about How to do Follow-Up after Invite Week.
Fred has been working with First Priority South Florida for 21 years. Since 2000, they have been expanding First Priority in South Florida to now reaching the same geographic area as the state of Massachusetts. Fred has been married for 36 years, has 3 grown children, and is the proud Pop of two grandchildren.
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
FP Heritage, KY Director Steve Dismuke talks about the three things of building the ministry of First Priority.
About three years ago, the FP Director at that time asked Steve to help be a part of the schools and sharing the Hope of Christ. Steve was serving in youth and children's ministry and he loved the mission of First Priority of America, 'To Take the Hope of Christ to Every Student'. About a year ago, Steve became the FP Director of Heritage, KY. Steve lives in Harrodsburg, KY with his wife who he has been married to for 28 years.
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Emery and Will talk about the launching a FP Club, starting with the most important thing, prayer.
Emery Minton is the Executive Director of FP Tri-States and Will Deavours is a network coordinator there with Emery.
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Tuesday Jul 20, 2021
Mark Roberts joins us today on the podcast with his great stories of how the power of prayer and seeing students as missionaries in their schools can make a huge impact in sharing the Gospel of Christ.
Mark Roberts was part of the team that developed the first major FP local city over 25 years ago in Birmingham, AL. He has an extensive background in student leadership training through organizations like: Student Leadership University, N.A.M.B., and Northpoint Community Church. He has spoken to thousands of teenagers and adults over the years, sharing the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and the call to be a missionary on their school campus. Mark currently resides in Saint Petersburg, Florida with his wife, Tonya. They have two sons, Hayden and Cole.
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Tuesday Jul 13, 2021
Amber Johansen, FP Director of Tampa Bay, talks about four avenues for finding student leaders to lead FP Clubs at school.
Amber has been involved with FPTB since 2009, when she began serving as a parent partner. In 2012, she consulted with FPTB as a Community Development Director, and in 2013 stepped into the position of Executive Director.
Amber’s primary focus as Executive Director is: vision casting, fundraising, program development, and ministry operations. Amber is available to speak on a wide range of topics including: the role of First Priority in the community, parenting, public education and faith based issues.
To read Amber’s article in the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies: http://jsri.ro/ojs/index.php/jsri/issue/view/44
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
Tuesday Jul 06, 2021
This is the last training for the three guides that we are offering FP clubs this year. This EPIC guide, called EPIC Stories, was completely created on the youversion Bible app. Listen, as Joel explains how to use this guide and where to find it. You can access all of our guides here: https://firstpriority.club/epic
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Tuesday Jun 29, 2021
Joel Rowland guides us through the EPIC Purpose training materials for this next school year. You can access the full training video here: https://firstpriority.club/EPICPURPOSE
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Tuesday Jun 22, 2021
Luke Still, FP Director of Broward County South Florida, guides us through the EPIC Year training materials for this next school year.
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Tuesday Jun 15, 2021
Mark Robbins, Steve Cherrico, and Brad Schelling talk about the importance of the coach role in First Priority Clubs. Finding those coaches takes time and a lot of relationship building and helping them understand we are trying to add value to their ministry as well.