First Priority is a Church-based, Student-led, & Adult-coached youth organization that supports student-initiated, student-led Christian clubs that do the Great Commission and ideally meet on middle school and high school campuses.
The First Priority Strategy was founded by Benny Proffitt leading 12 Youth Pastors in the Irving, TX area, in 1985.
The first city to take this strategy and follow it through to maturity started in Birmingham, AL, in 1990 under the leadership of founder Benny Proffitt.
They do that by uniting the body of Christ (area churches) with a plan of action to influence the schools with the Gospel.
The plan of action is to encourage, equip, and empower Christian students from area churches to form a First Priority Club at school to share the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.