Uptick Students will be a program for rising 9th through 11th grade students. We will gather a group of 6-8 students through an application and interview process. Our year will start in August and end in June of the following year. Our hope is to help kids become lifelong disciples and listeners. Our prayer is that through Life Shapes, a discipleship tool, they develop a toolbox to hear from God and assess their spiritual life. Then, we also are hoping to pair them with a mentor within our church not currently connected to our Student Ministry. The aim is for them to connect monthly in person, or over the phone, to foster a relationship that goes beyond the Uptick year. We are also looking to bring in people to run personality assessments so students can better understand who they are and how they operate. Then we are looking to bring in professionals like bankers, artists, ministers, salespeople, teachers, and more to represent the five capitals. We want to frame the capitols within careers that specialize in that capital. Uptick Students is built from John Chandler’s book “Uptick: A Blueprint for Finding and Forming the Next Generation of Pioneering Kingdom Leaders”. John Chandler has been forming Uptick and young pastors through the BGAV and young pastors for over a decade.

Our prayer is that this teaches our students who they are in light of Jesus and how they operate in the world best to build his kingdom.

Uptick Students Application & Questionnaire