There, the school staff knew who I was because usually their own kids were in our youth group. Showing up for SYATP was easy when I was assigned an affluent, private Christian school. However, after the last time I did SYATP, I declared to myself that I wouldn’t do it anymore. All for the glory of God and furthering his kingdom, of course. I pissed and moaned and grumbled about having to wake up earlier than normal to make it to a high school campus when I had early college classes, but I did it anyway. I did SYATP as a youth leader several times. The hopeful idea was that the youth kids’ friends would see him talking to a “cool, older” person and ask him about it, at which point they’d be invited to church.
Then we had to show up to that school’s flag pole in the morning, find the youth group kids that attended that school, and pray with them. When SYATP came around, he strategically divided up the youth leaders and assigned them to certain schools around the city. That meant attending Friday night high school football games, visiting school campuses during lunch time, and of course, See You At the Pole. I started working with the youth ministry at my church, and the director ( who I’ve written about before) was all about “going where the kids were.” He liked to be present in the youth group kids’ lives even when they weren’t at church. Since I was a good little Christian boy back then, I’d show up to school early that day to pray around the flag pole.Īfter graduating high school, I thought I was done with See You At the Pole, but I was wrong. They started warming us up for it about two weeks beforehand, encouraging as many people to show up at the pole as possible (then they’d post the pictures on the school website for some sleek marketing) and they’d assign some of the staff to be there as well. My Christian high school was all about See You At the Pole. Since it occurs around the flag pole, you might think it’s specifically meant to pray for the government or the President or the country, but not necessarily. You can pray for whatever or whoever you want. It only lasts about ten or fifteen minutes (it doesn’t intrude into first hour) and then it’s done. On that day, in the morning, the Christians at the school gather around the school’s flagpole and pray. Do any of y’all remember See You At the Pole? If you went to a Christian middle or high school, you might.īasically, See You At the Pole is an event that happens once a year.
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