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The Marion Star
Local students
gather to pray
Andrew Carter
September 28, 2016
MARION - Scenes of solidarity were played out at high schools across
Marion County on Wednesday morning.
Students met in the pre-dawn darkness and joined hands to pray with and
for each other, their schools and the community as See You at the Pole
was observed. See You at the Pole is an international student prayer
movement that started in 1990.
At Pleasant Middle School, about 60 middle and high school students and
adults gathered in front of the building to pray and sing. Officials
with Harding High School said 15 students and adults met at the
flagpole there. Students also gathered together at Elgin and River
Valley, according to school officials.
Some of the local events were organized by students through the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes clubs at the schools. The clubs are
known as huddles.
According to the Central Ohio Fellowship of Christian Athletes website,
there are seven huddles in Marion County, located at Elgin High School,
Harding High School, Grant Middle School, Pleasant High School,
Pleasant Middle School, River Valley High School and River Valley
Middle School.
According to its website, syatp.com, See You at the Pole traces its
roots to a group of students from Burleson, Texas, who attended a youth
rally in early 1990. After hearing the message, the students felt
compelled to pray and went to three different schools in the area and
gathered around flagpoles to pray for their schools, classmates and
communities.
The movement continued to grow among church youth leaders in the area
and resulted in the first See You at the Pole event on Sept. 12, 1990,
at high schools in four states. An estimated 45,000 students gathered
at schools that day to pray. A year later, the movement had grown to
include more than one million students in all 50 states. Officials said
an estimated 3 million students in 20 countries now participate in the
annual prayer rally.
Read this article with photos, plus others, at The Marion Star
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