BROOKVILLE — Brookville High School plans to participate in the “See You at the Pole” (SYATP) event.
BHS student organizer Shawn Holderman, and the rest of the planning committee, invite all to join them as they pray Wednesday, Sept. 25, at 7 a.m. around the school’s flagpole.
According to the “See You at the Pole” website, the event “is a time of prayer on the fourth Wednesday of September when students meet at the school’s flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school and nation to God.”
The website states the event is “student-initiated, student-organized and student-led.
“First Pray” (from First Timothy 2:1) is the theme for this year’s event at the flagpole.
Praying at the flagpole is part of the global week of student prayer that takes place Sept. 22-28.
This is the 34th year for the SYATP event.
According to the SYATP website, the event was initiated in 1990 by a small group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas, when they gathered for a DiscipleNow weekend.
SYATP states “the students were broken and burdened for their friends. Compelled to pray, yet not knowing exactly what to do, they went to the school flagpoles and prayed for their friends, schools, and leaders.”
SYATP states “those teenagers, like others who were holding similar prayer meetings at their schools, placed a vision in the hearts of youth leaders across Texas – for students to pray on the same day.”
SYATP states “the name ‘See You at the Pole’ came from an early brainstorming session and the vision was shared with 20,000 students in June 1990 at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.”
SYATP states “at 7 a.m. on Sept. 12, 1990, more than 45,000 teenagers met at school flagpoles in four different states to pray.”
SYATP states the event brings students together to intercede for their leaders, schools and families “asking God to bring moral and spiritual awakening to their campuses and countries.”
The San Diego-based National Network of Youth Ministries coordinates SYATP promotion.
“See You at the Pole is a ‘moment,’” Doug Clark, national field director of the Network, said.
“We hope adults and students will consider turning that moment into a movement by praying every day,” Clark said.
“This year, with the continued challenge of disruptions that have affected the U.S. and every country, we need to ask God to pour out His Spirit on us more than ever. The heart of SYATP is extraordinary prayer,” Clark added.
SYATP is partnering with Claim Your Campus (ClaimYourCampus.com) to encourage students to pray daily at their schools.
The CYC website states its mission is “to call, train, and sustain 1 million students to pray weekly at every middle and high school in America.”
The CYC website states there are two ways to “join the movement:”
• form a prayer group and gather at school for a 15-minute time of prayer, asking God for change on their campus.
• physically walk around the outside of the school for 20 minutes or more and pray for “grace, peace, justice and mercy using the CYC Prayer Walk Guide.”
For more information on the Brookville SYATP event, call (937) 830-5708.
Reach Terry Baver at [email protected].
