Ideas for Adults
Help Students Lead
See You At the Pole™ is a student-led event. As a youth minister or adult volunteer, you can assist student leaders in some of the following ways:
  • Student testimonies and your enthusiasm will help create vision and challenge students to lead the SYATP movement at their school. Encourage them to gather a group of their peers to work within the planning process. This does not mean they have to be the "up-front" person, but someone has to take leadership. Ask, "Why not you?"
  • With their "planning team," encourage students to plan how they will use the time during SYATP on the fourth Wednesday in September. View suggestions here, or refer to pages 15-18 in the pull-out section of the handbook. Encourage them to prayerfully plan ahead!
  • If they have a campus Christian club, students may make SYATP an officially publicized club activity. This allows them access to the school’s means of promoting club events (bulletin boards, p.a. systems, etc.).
  • Prepare youth to use evangelistic opportunities that will come through SYATP. Encourage them to ask, "Did you hear about what happened today?" They can follow up with, "Do you ever think about spiritual things?" "What would you want someone to pray about for you?" "Do you ever pray?" These questions or others can lead into opportunities for clear presentations of the gospel. Encourage them to invite students to your group’s next event.


“Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."

1 Timothy 4:12

What Can Youth Ministers and Adult Volunteers Do During SYATP?

At the school

  • Provide "prayer cover" for students praying at their school.
  • Take pictures or video for future use. [Note: See the address below if you wish to send video or photos to be used in promoting future SYATPs.]
  • Take a head count of participants and report results.


At other locations
Pray at the same time as the students but at other locations in the community or at home.

Report the results
We prefer that you report your See You at the Pole™ via the Internet. If you do not have Internet access, mail, email or fax your report to us. Please send reports no later than the Friday after See You at the Pole™ (i.e., the Friday following the fourth Wednesday in September).

See You at the Pole™
National Network of Youth Ministries
12335 World Trade Drive, Suite 16
San Diego CA 92128

Fax 858.451.6900

Email dclark (at) nnym.org