Tomorrow, 9/25/13, the fourth Wednesday in September, has been designated since 1990 as national See You At the Pole (SYATP) day.  Students gather before school around the building’s flag pole to pray.  Youth Group members might want to attend not only to pray, but to identify other believers and be identified as Christians.

At URC we often had students attending seven or eight high schools in the Lansing area.  Our youth group leadership team would do prayer walks around the schools, particularly praying for spiritual revival and students coming to know Jesus as Lord and Savior.  We always went in the evening during our leadership meetings.  If we had had a more evangelistic bent and more than a few at a school, we might have been there during school hours, hoping to attract attention and questions.  Part of the explanatory answer would be asking what we could pray for the inquirer.

We were not marching or blowing horns like the Israelites at Jericho – we did not want the walls to fall down!  But asking God to work where there might be resistance is a tradition stretching back to Acts 4.29-30.  We wanted to pray for blessing, protection, and the Holy Spirit’s work in the school and for boldness in the Christian students there.