The First Priority Podcast

Dave Gibson shares about the Go2020 plans.

Dave Gibson has over 40 years of local, national, and international ministry leadership experience. He currently serves as Executive Director of Go2020 USA and Go2020 Global Leadership Team.  Dave is the Senior Director of Missions & Evangelism at Grace Church of Eden Prairie, MN for over 30 years. Dave has also served as the Executive VP of Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Executive Director of Mission America, and began in occupational ministry with Midwest Challenge. 

Dave and his wife Wendy have 5 children and 7 grandchildren

Hayden Roberts tells his story of being called into ministry as a student.

Hayden has been around the world of ministry his whole life with an itinerant speaker and church leader for a father. Hayden felt a divine appointment to ministry his senior year of High School and has been involved on staff for multiple churches and ministries ever since. He has a beautiful wife named Shannon and has a lab mix named Zion. He loves Students and desires to see them use their gifts and talents to further the kingdom of God. His hobbies include trying new hobbies and doing basically anything but board games.

Gospel Conversations

Brad serves as our Director of Expansion. He spends most of his day working with the new FP coordinators and directors. Brad’s goal is to help local communities take the appropriate steps to create a spiritual movement around their middle and high schools. He has been in student ministry since 1997, served as a First Priority campus coach starting in 2001, and joined staff with FPOA in 2008. He helped get FP of the Great Plains (SD/IA) off the ground before moving his family to Nashville, TN to be strategic in his work with First Priority of America. Brad, with his wife Erika and four children attend Church of the City in Spring Hill.

Student Led Ministry

Steve Cherrico is the Executive Director of First Priority Greater Nashville. Each day he works to equip, cross-train and serve the local Church throughout 9 counties in Greater Nashville. Today he talks about equipping students to lead Christian clubs in their school.

Is it legal for students to gather at school to share the Gospel?

Brad serves as our Director of Expansion. He spends most of his day working with the new FP coordinators, alongside Mark Roberts. Brad’s goal is to help local communities take the appropriate steps to create a spiritual movement around their middle and high schools. He has been in student ministry since 1997, served as a First Priority campus coach starting in 2001, and joined staff with FPOA in 2008. He helped get FP of the Great Plains (SD/IA) off the ground before moving his family to Nashville, TN to be strategic in his work with First Priority. Brad, with his wife Erika and four children attend Church of the City in Spring Hill.

Church Networking

Steve Cherrico is the Executive Director of First Priority Greater Nashville. Each day he works to equip, cross-train and serve the local Church throughout 9 counties in Greater Nashville. His goal is to help the local church unite around a plan of action so that every student in every school in this region experiences the Hope of Christ from a peer on their school campus.

Steve has been married to his wife Jessi since 1998. They have 3 children Justus, Nathan and Corina. In his free time, Steve enjoys coaching his kids youth sport teams, supporting international missions teams, reading and participating in recreational sports.

How do we reach young men in a culture that promotes isolation every single day.

Kore Bendix is the Pastor of Outreach and Evangelism at Grace Covenant Church in Chantilly, Virginia – a suburb of Washington, DC.  Kore has served in multiple positions within churches large and small in his 17 years of ministry, but his greatest passion is helping young people discover how extravagant and audacious the grace of Jesus is.

 

He met and married his beautiful wife Heather 18 years ago while studying at Liberty University and has four children ranging from 16 to 10.  He recently completed his Masters in Theological Studies at Regent University and fancies himself a wanna-be athlete even though he’s getting ancient, having completed several half ironman races along with two Marathon finishes.

Roundtable with Joel Rowland discussing the Enneagram

Joel and his family are following their passion to plant First Priority Range. Joel and Amber have been married for 13 years. They enjoy playing music, exploring the outdoors, and...

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Curtis Zackery “CZ” talks about finding rest for your soul

My story contains a bunch of twists and turns that have shaped who I am today. It began when I was born and raised in New Jersey. It took a...

Mary Margaret West author of Show Her the Way: Your Guide to Discipling Teen Girls

Mary Margaret West has been leading in women's and girls ministry for the last 15 years. She's currently serving as a Middle School Bible teacher at Foundation Academy in Winter Garden, FL. She has a passion to equip girls and women to dive deeply into God's Word and live out their calling and live out their calling, and does this by training, consulting, and speaking to students and leaders across the Untied States. Mary Margaret is the author of Show Her the Way: Your Guide to Discipling Teen Girls, is a former Girls Minister, and holds a master's degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Mary Margaret and her husband Jonathan live in Orlando, FL.