More than 40 Windham High School and Middle School students and teachers met for prayer at the high school flagpole last Wednesday morning as part of a nationwide prayer vigil known as “See You at the Pole, 2005.”
Held every year since 1990, the student-led event has grown from its beginnings in a Fort Worth, Texas suburb to become a nationwide movement of students and teachers taking a stand for God in the public setting of a school campus.
According to Highland Cliff Advent Christian Church youth group leader John Scott, the purpose of the event is to bring Christians in the school system together to pray for their town leaders, schools and families, and also to ask that God bring moral and spiritual awakening to the campus.
“It was awesome, awesome just like God,” said English teacher Martha Mountford after the event.
Students met at the flagpole near the gymnasium promptly at 7 a.m. for about 15 minutes of individual and group prayer before school started. Boys and girls with bookbags stood around the school’s traffic circle island in a sprawling semi-circle. Some spoke aloud their prayers and others had their heads bowed in silent prayer. John Shively, an eleventh grader from Raymond, led the event.
“It was great,” Shively said. “I was hoping for whatever God would give us and what he gave us was great. There were lots of students and teachers here and even some from the middle school, which I was surprised to see. It was great. God was good to us this morning.”
After reading a passage from the Bible, Shively sent the assembly off with the advice: “It’s not about us, it’s all about God.”
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