See You at the Pole Returns to Schools September 24
The start of a new school year means it’s time for another See You at the Pole, in which Christians students can make a public expression of their faith. This year’s event is scheduled for September 24
More than 45,000 students in four states met to pray before the start of school in September 1990. A few months later, a group of youth ministers from all over the country gathered together for a national conference in Colorado. Many of them reported that their students had heard about the prayer movement in Texas and were equally burdened for their schools. No other events had been planned, but it was clear that students across the country would be creating their own national day of student prayer. There was no stopping them.
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A year later an estimated one million students gathered at school flagpoles all over the country. From Boston to Los Angeles and from North Dakota to the tip of Texas, students came together to pray. Some sang, some read scripture, but most importantly, they prayed. Like those first students, they prayed for their schools, for their friends, for their leaders and for their country.
Within the first few years, the movement began to spread to other nations through missionaries from the United States. Now an estimated one million students from all the world participate in See You at the Pole each year. Students in more than 64 countries have participated. In places such as Canada, Korea, Japan, Turkey, and the Ivory Coast, students are responding to God and taking seriously the challenge to pray.
God is continuing to call his people to repentance and prayer. Countless inspiring testimonies have been shared of how he has used See You at the Pole to bring students to Christ and to change lives affirm God’s power to answer those who cry out to him in humble dependence. Bible clubs, weekly prayer meetings and other ministries have begun on campuses where students participated in See You at the Pole.
For more information, visit. www.syatp.com.
–Dwight Widaman
