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See You At The Pole is Wednesday 9/25

See You at the Pole 2024 will be Wednesday, September 25th!

There are TWO opportunities to unite in prayer with your friends:

 

DAY: On Wednesday, Sept 25th, at 7am. All around the world in every time zone, for 24 hours, students will gather at their school flagpole and pray for their school, friends, families, churches, and communities.

 

WEEK: The Global Week of Student Prayer is September 22nd through 28th.
Public, private, or home school students, pray in unique ways, places, and times all week. Some will launch on-campus Bible clubs.

*Please let WNZR know what YOU are doing to celebrate the annual See You at the Pole*

 

This is the 34th year for See You at the Pole, a student-initiated and student-led event that started in Burleson, Texas, in 1990. See You at the Pole is simply a prayer rally where students meet at the school flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school, and nation to God. See You at the Pole is a student-initiated, student-organized, and student-led event.

 

The 2024 See You at the Pole theme is “FIRST, PRAY”.

The theme verse is 1 Timothy 2:1 – “I urge you, first of all, to pray.”

 

Please let us know what is happening at YOUR SCHOOL!

Email wnzr@mvnu.edu or call our Office Line, 740-392-9090 and tell us about your plans for See You at the Pole!

Check out the special videos below for 2024’s Global Week of Student Prayer and the 2024 See You at the Pole event!

The See You at the Pole Story

A small group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas, came together for a DiscipleNow weekend in early 1990. They came seeking God and little did they know how powerfully He was about to move. On Saturday night their hearts were penetrated like never before, when they became broken before God and burdened for their friends. Compelled to pray, they drove to three different schools that night. Not knowing exactly what to do, they went to the school flagpoles and prayed for their friends, schools, and leaders. Those students had no idea how God would use their obedience.


God used what He did among those teenagers and others who were holding similar prayer meetings at their schools to birth a vision in the hearts of youth leaders across Texas. The vision was that students throughout Texas would follow these examples and meet at their school flagpoles to pray simultaneously. The challenge was named See You at the Pole at a brainstorming session during a meeting of key youth leaders. The vision was shared with 20,000 students in June 1990 at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas.


Only God had envisioned how many students would step up to the challenge. At 7:00 a.m. on September 12, 1990, more than 45,000 teenagers met at school flagpoles in four different states to pray before the start of school. Reports came into toll-free number for days after the first event.
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.

On September 11, 1991, at 7:00 a.m., an estimated one million students gathered at school flagpoles all over the country. From Boston, Massachusetts, to Los Angeles, California, 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.
 

As in all great movements of prayer, See You at the Pole did not begin in the hearts of people. It began in the heart of God. God used the obedience of a small group of teenagers to ignite what has become an international movement of prayer among young people.

Since 1991, See You at the Pole has grown to God-sized proportions. Within the first few years, the movement began to spread to other nations through missionaries from the U.S. Now each year, more than 3 million students from all over the world participate in See You at the Pole. Students in more than 20 countries take part. In places like 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 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.

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