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Questions about Adopting a School

What is the mission of Everyschool.com?
Our ultimate purpose is to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to every teenager in America.

How can I start fulfilling the Everyschool.com mission?
-Adopt a School for Christ
-Launch a Ministry
-Lead Teenagers to Christ
The Coaching Center offers free phone coaching by trained campus ministry veterans to help you begin your own outreach ministry to a school in your community. Call 1-877-GOCAMPUS (toll-free) or visit our Resources Page to get started.

How can a student adopt a school for Christ?
There are many ways to go about this, but beginning in prayer is the starting point. Students can begin a prayer movement on their school by joining a prayer triplet strategy used on hundreds of schools. One Christian student invites two other Christian students to meet three times a week, to pray for each other and three non-Christian friends each. The result? Three Christian students are praying for 9 friends who need Christ.

Then, Christian students can consider joining or beginning a Christian outreach or club on their campus. By visiting our Resources Page, students will find help in knowing how to proceed.

How can a local church adopt a school for Christ?
Local churches can adopt schools for Christ by:
1. Seeing and serving the school campus as a mission field.
2. Strategically praying for school campuses within the community.
3. Commissioning students and educators as Campus Missionaries (see: Challenge Sunday Church Planning Guide for help).
4. Empowering youth workers to include the school campus as part of their youth strategy.
5. Including “Campus Missions” within their ongoing missions and evangelism strategy.
6. Offering their facilities, specialty ministries and assistance to schools in their areas of need.
7. Partnering with local youth outreach organizations within the community.

How can a local Network adopt schools for Christ?
Youth workers partnering in a local Network can:
1. List every middle, junior high and high school within their reach geographically.
2. Identify every school with an existing student-led club or outreach on campus.
3. Discover all Christian youth organizations and churches targeting each school.
4. Delegate a networking youth worker to serve as spiritual shepherd/coach for each school.
5. Commit to co-exist and partner on any campuses with multiple outreach efforts.
6. Prayerfully decide how to partner and establish outreach ministries to un-adopted schools.
7. Partner together for strategic, community-wide training, prayer and evangelism efforts.

How can a Christian parent or concerned adult adopt a school for Christ?
Christian adults, parents and grandparents can:
1. Individually pray for three Christian students, one teacher and one school by name.
2. Form an off-campus prayer group that regularly prays for students and schools.
3. Support student leaders of Christian clubs and outreaches ministering to the campus.
4. Serve a school by volunteering for projects that the school budget does not cover.
5. Assist with mentoring and tutoring students on a personal level.
6. Welcome and embrace teenagers from the community into the life of the church.
7. Fund the programs and ministries that lead to reaching students for Christ.

Where can I report that I have adopted a school for Christ?
Simply click on the Adopt a School and follow the instructions there.

Can more than one person or ministry adopt the same school for Christ?
Absolutely! In most every community, it takes many churches and youth organizations working together to reach an entire student body for Christ on any one campus. The national database at www.everyschool.com allows for multiple adoptions of the same school.

What core values are shared by the Everyschool.com?
1. A personal relationship with Jesus Christ
2. Teenagers and ministering to them in their environment
3. The evangelism and discipleship of teenagers
4. The assimilation and participation of teenagers in a local church
5. Cooperation with respect for diversity
6. The Bible as our sole guide, in keeping with the National Network Statement of Faith
7. The complementary roles of the local church and Christian organizations and the many different methods used to reach teenagers
8. Prayer as essential for spiritual renewal and evangelism

How does Everyschool.com define a campus ministry?
A Campus Ministry includes:
1. People with an ongoing plan to evangelize every student at a school
2. A prayer strategy that is active
3. Student-led ministry as its goal
4. Adults who support the student movement
5. Encouragement and training provided for students to reach their campus for Christ