After See You at the Pole

How to equip you to reach your high school for Jesus

Photo by Greg Schneider

See You at the Pole is a great springboard for reaching a high-school campus for Christ, but that is just the beginning.

by Greg Stoughton

24 . September . 2008

Students, youth pastors, Christian teachers, moms, and more gathered around school flagpoles for See You at the Pole™ -- what has become an annual global movement of prayer.

But for Student Venture, Campus Crusade for Christ's ministry to high-school students, what happens after the event is of equal, if not greater, importance.

"See You at the Pole launches people to take a stand for God," says Student Venture staff member, Dave Meritt. "But it is a great springboard for doing all that can be done -- even beyond a day of prayer -- to reach a campus for Christ."

After the Event: How to Continue Momentum

"Prayer is the beginning and foundation," says Dave. "But we are after getting students to take the next step to share Christ with their friends--to disciple their friends and to help them then walk and grow in Christ."

Involve others in on-going prayer

Pray before, during, and after the event, using Student Venture's prayer triplet strategy.

This strategy asks students to find 3 friends, meet 3 times a week, and pray for 3 others students by name that they would most want to see come to Christ.
Keep people talking

Student Venture has created 10 different surveys for Christian students to use with their peers in response to an event like See You at The Pole.

Occasions and events include Halloween, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day and St. Patrick's Day.

Download and print copies of these 4-question interviews designed for use throughout the year.

As students build rapport, asking their peers 4 simple questions, participants receive an invitation to hear the gospel.

"It is exciting to think about so many students on the same day taking a step of faith to share the gospel all across the country," says Dave.
Use Student Venture's coaching center

The coaching center exists to equip student-leaders with tools needed to initiate spiritual movements of prayer, evangelism and discipleship on our nation's campuses both before and after the September 24 prayer event.

With 27,468 public high schools in the U.S. (Newsweek, May 16 2005), Student Venture's aim to see student-led spiritual movements on every campus is truly a God-sized task.

While unable to staff every campus, its coaching center equips student-leaders to establish a ministry on their campus. Presently, more than 600 students per month come to the Web site to receive materials with 4 full-time Student Venture staff members available to offer personal coaching of students by phone.