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Benny and Marilou Proffitt. Founders & CEO. God gave Benny a dream and a vision to reach the next generation for Jesus Christ. God used Benny’s 30 years of experience as a youth pastor, high school teacher and basketball coach to form a ministry that became First Priority.
Benny (FPG Founder & CEO) gives an overview of the history & present impact of this FP strategy worldwide!!! youth Culture. Watch this video to see how First Priority Global can help you impact the Next Generation for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ!!! Reverse.
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- First Priority Global
- Cocke County High School
- Brentwood, Tennessee, United States
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.
- Benny and Marilou Proffitt: First Priority Here and There
- Meet The Proffitts
- Breaking Up Unplowed Ground
- First Priority Ministries in Greater Nashville
- God’s Extended Appointment
- Global and Celestial
Even when people cannot see it, God is always working. He has plans and purposes far beyond the obvious. Over the past fifty years, when He entwined a bi-vocational youth pastor, a high school teacher, a basketball coach, and a growing family, He has revealed His mission.
The couple of His choice in this instance is Benny and Marilou Proffitt of Thompson Station, Tennessee. They have three married children and nine grandchildren. In 2023 they will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Knitted within those fifty years are multitudinous, world-wide endeavors. Benny Proffitt grew up in a loving Christian family...
Two experiences at high schools made a lasting impression on Proffitt’s life and became the seeds of First Priority. Benny had witnessed two separate student-led revivals where hundreds of students committed their lives to Christ. Knowing there was something else he needed to do with his life and being drawn to mentoring youth, Proffitt went throug...
The goal of the local leaders who launched First Priority Greater Nashville is to be in every school in every community in the Greater Nashville area. Its strategy unites the body of Christ around the schools in six counties that have over 140,000 teenaged students in public and private schools. Many Christian students here have been empowered to b...
In 1999, Proffitt led a group of 40 college students who traveled to all 50 states and 183 cities in their “What’s Up America Tour” with the goal of “Looking at America through the Eyes of Our Youth.” On April 20, 1999, they were driving toward Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, when they heard about shootings. Within two days Proffitt a...
In 2010, First Priority Global Ministries was officially begun. Benny and Marilou left FPOA in trusted hands, and since then, they and the FPGM team have literally traveled around the globe many times sharing the vision and training, and launching First Priority in over 70 countries on five continents. First Priority Global has solidified global re...
Benny Proffitt. 288 likes. Benny Proffitt founder of First Priority Ministries, Visible Pictures and author of the parenting book "Charting the Course".
First Priority began, informally, in 1990 with local Youth Minister Benny Proffitt as the visionary and leader. First in only a handful of over the mountain schools, the vision quickly formalized into a functioning non-profit organization in 1992 under the leadership of businessman Tommy Brigham.
