JOINING HANDS Students Lift Up Community in Prayer

by Charlotte Kovalchuk • image credit: Facebook / SRMS FCA

Around 60 students from Santa Rita Middle School shared a moment of solidarity with schools around the world during the annual day of student prayer for See You at the Pole. “As a parent and a Christian, it was truly humbling to see so many students unashamed to show their love of Christ,” says Trish Flores, organizer with Santa Rita Middle School’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA). “We truly are a blessed community to have so much support from the parents, students, and general community.”

Organized and led by students, See You at the Pole is a prayer rally where students meet at the school flagpole before school to lift up their friends, families, teachers, school, and nation to God. The event began in 1990 as a grassroots movement with 10 students praying at their school and, today, millions around the world pray on their own campuses on the fourth Wednesday of September each year.