 The fish are biting! Students are more open to the gospel than ever before.
Did you know statistics show that 80 percent of people that commit their lives to Christ do so by age 18? Christian students are saying, “I want to make a difference at my school, but I don’t know how.” The students are ready! Are you ready to help them?
What if each church in your community joined together to cast a “net” into the deep waters of the schools in your community? Jesus told a group of fisherman to cast their nets into the deep for a catch. They were obedient and caught so many fish that their nets began to break! They even called to their partners in another boat and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. Jesus told them, “From now on you’ll be fishing for people” (Luke 5:10, NLT)! If students are taught to fish for people, the catch will be so amazing that God will allow us to fill “both boats!”
God has opened a door that allows Christian students to initiate and lead a Christian club on their public school campus. FiSH! Is the strategy that helps you do just that.
FiSH! is a four-week strategy that is repeated each month. Although it was designed for student-led clubs, you can use it in any environment. FiSH! encourages believers, involves local churches, and creates evangelistic environments. Here's how it works:
 The Fishing Cycle is a simple, four-week cycle that is implemented in a Christian club. It is designed to help the students reach their classmates on campus. The Fishing Cycle is based on the acronym, F.I.S.H.
Focus Week: To help students be responsible for these three focus points.
- Renewing the mind; Scripture memorization.
- Applying the principles obtained at church and through personal devotion time.
- Praying for a “fish” (i.e., non-Christian classmate).
Inspiration Week: To inspire students to live on mission for the Lord.
Share Week: To provide an opportunity for students to share how they met Christ and pray for their “fish.”
Hook Week: To provide an opportunity for Christian students to bring their non-Christian friends to a non-threatening environment, to hear a clear presentation of the gospel, and have an opportunity to respond in faith.
Report your Hook Week results here.
Follow-up: Getting the fish in the boat—a local church. Everyone enjoys catching fish, but few enjoy cleaning them. It’s messy, but cleaning the fish is part of fishing. As “fishers of men,” we must avoid the catch and release mindset at all cost. Follow-up is not a club meeting; it is an ongoing process.
So who's who, and how do you navigate the waters? Check out the details:
A Fish
The Fish are your classmates swimming through life without a relationship with Jesus Christ. The ultimate purpose of this plan is to “hook” these students with the message of the gospel and get them into our boats—our local churches.
A Fisherman
You are the Fisherman, the Christian student on campus who is surrounded by fish.
A Fishing License
The Equal Access Act provides you the freedom and opportunity to initiate and lead a Christian club on campus. Faculty Volunteers are school employees who make sure the club operates within the boundaries and rules of the district and state governments.
A Boat
A boat supports and transports the fishermen. It provides stability and transportation. The boats represent churches all around you. They are full of supportive adults who create a stabilizing force for the students as they go fishing.
Campus Missionary Commissioning
Churches support and pray for missionaries all over the world. Why not pray for the Christian students on the largest mission field in North America, the school campus? Christian students, like you, from a local church are campus missionaries to your school.
 Yearbook Prayer Strategy
Photographs of student, by row, are taken from your yearbook and given to those who go to your church. Divide the row of photos among your Christian friends and have them distribute them to the adults in their church who will pray. The adults commit to pray that the students represented in the photos have an opportunity to hear and respond to the message of Christ.
A Guide
A Guide is an adult who educates and equips students who will be implementing the “Fishing Cycle.” A guide has two primary functions: to schedule the fishing trip, and to help the fishermen catch fish. These two functions translate into helping students get to the campus, “the fishing hole,” with a plan and being a resource to them as they implement the Fishing Cycle. How well the students implement the Fishing Cycle is a reflection of how well the Campus Guide equips them before they leave the dock.
If you are ready to help your students cast a net into their school, contact us now. If you need more information, send us a request. Let’s go fishing!
Check out www.catchthis.net. All resources to support this strategy can be downloaded free!
Your "Fishing Gear" includes the following resources:
- Team Building Guide-Leader Edition - A step-by-step guide to providing students with the prayer support they nee to dramatically impact their school with the power of the gospel.
- Team Building Guide-Student Edition - A step-by-step guide to identifying other Christian students at school and unifying them to create outreach opportunities in which non-Christian students can hear the life changing message of Jesus Christ.
- Fishing Guide - A guidebook for adults who support the leaders form the student-led Christian groups that meet on the school campus.
- Student Leader’s Guide - A guidebook for the students who lead Christian club meetings on their school campus.
- FiSH! Prayer Card - A prayer strategy that helps us focus our prayers on specific friends who do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ.
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