Students and peers gather Wednesday, September 24 to pray for and acknowledge their friends, family, acquaintances and their school. They gather as part of a nationally known day called See You At The Pole.

See You At the Pole, also known as SYATP, is the fourth Wednesday of the month September, and First Priority leaders, suchs as Elisabeth Bristol, planned this morning’s event. She followed certain steps

“Overall, there were three leader meetings and some of the leaders working outside of the club to set it up,” Bristol said.

According to the official SYATP website, See You At The Pole started in 1990 as a grassroots movement, meaning the group supporting it is spontaneous and natural, when ten students started praying at their school. Everyone who gathers for the event is joined together and reads excerpts from the Bible or is praying.

“See You At The Pole is mainly focused on prayer so we tried to make it mostly prayers,” Bristol said. “But, we wanted to include some worship too so people could have a good day ahead of them.”

Tonight, September 24, starting at 6 P.M., there will be a rally at Calvary Chapel that goes along with the SYATP event.

“Traditionally, there would be a rally the day or night before to get people excited about See You At The Pole,” Bristol said. “There would be music and people would share testimonies. But the school’s auditorium was booked, so we couldn’t do the rally until tonight.”

But SYATP isn’t just for students that go to the school the event is happening at, or for the club that helps sponsor it. There have been students in the past who have showed up at Smoky to participate in the event. There have also been some adults that have showed up.

“There were other people there we haven’t seen at meetings,” Bristol said. “The youth pastor at the chapel that sponsors it and one of our adult sponsors was there this morning too.”

Bristol was happy with the turnout this year and is hopeful more people will come again next year.