SYATP08

Were your kids there this morning? This is the first year we knew about SYATP. Kristopher and Nicholas were excited to be there. In case you don't know, that is See you at the pole. Students all over the country gathered at their school's flagpole to pray. Our church had a SYATP rally the Sunday night before and over 700 youth and parents participated. They boys were psyched about it.

The excerpt below is taken from Wikepedia.

See You at the Pole (SYATP) is an annual gathering of Christian students of all ages at a flagpole in front of their local school for prayer, scripture-reading and hymn-singing, during an early morning hour preceding the start of the school day. The American SYATP events occur on every fourth Wednesday of September[1]. This annual gathering began in Burleson, Texas, in 1990, as a response to a Disciple Now weekend with a handful of Christian students. It has grown by word of mouth, announcements at youth rallies and churches, and the Internet; SYATP meetings now occur internationally.

In 2005, over 2 million students in the US participated, as well as students in Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Germany, Ghana, Guam, Hong Kong, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, Malaysia, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, and South Africa.[2]