See You At The Pole provides prayer opportunities for the PACA community

Caption: Senior Ligia Penteado leads her kinder buddy in a heartfelt prayer for one of the countries represented by the PACA community.[by Dr. Cristina Meier]

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The annual See You At the Pole (SYATP) event, that brings students together worldwide for an international prayer movement at their schools, took place on PACA’s campus as scheduled on Wednesday, September 24, in spite of cooler weather and wet conditions. This was the third year that PACA has participated in the event with Dr. Cristina Meier and Mr. Lucas Ham Swisher as the organizing leadership.

Freshman student, Grace Meier, has also participated in the SYATP event at PACA for the past three years.  She participated as a middle school student for the past two years. 

“My overall experience was good as it was really nice to see how this year they incorporated the students to pray for the places that they were assigned to pray over,” said Meier.

As the title, “See You At The Pole” implies, the goal is to bring as many students together at the center of a school campus which is most often where their school flags are located.  This has been a successful process in years past.  However, weather conditions made that impossible this year.

“It was good to have the amount of space that we had in the gym,” said Meier. “So we just improved with the addition of Mr. Ham’s small Brazilian flag to give students the feeling of meeting at the flagpole while meeting in the gym. The Holy Spirit is not hindered by location.”

See You at the Pole was inspired by teenagers in a youth group in Burleson, Texas in the early 1990s felt led to go and pray at night at a youth retreat their experience was shared to other young people across Texas. More than 45,000 students on 1,200 campuses in Texas and three other states were documented at the first See You at the Pole. From there SYATP continued to grow to other places.

Every Christian school that Dr. Meier has worked for, has organized an event for their students to join this worldwide event.  When she was teaching in South Korea, China and Turkey, students would gather to pray over the countries of their international communities.   

“I proposed this event at PACA three years ago,” said Dr. Meier, “ I just took it up on myself to find a good website where I could get country prayers and then created the posters.”

Dr. Meier has expressed that she is passionate about praying for her students and giving them opportunities to pray for each other and for their community. 

All students from kindergarten to high school were given the opportunity to meet at the center of the gym to pray together for their school, the churches and the countries that represent the PACA community.  

After each group of students prayed, they were given the opportunity to walk down to the breezeway to pray over posters for each of the 27 countries represented by families in the PACA community. 

These posters were organized with a visual map of the area and specific prayer points offered by OnePrayer, an organization that provides prayer initiatives for those who want to participate. 

After the event, the posters were eventually moved to the secondary building so that students could continue to view the prayer points and pray over them for the rest of the month.  To view those prayer posters, visit this link:  2025 SYATP Prayer Posters