History of the Flag Pole Rally at American Schools

About 1970 we had a flag pole rally at Texas A&M at the start of school.
It was an effort to rally some students for Christ. My friend and I printed up flyers and passed them out in the dorms, then a week later, a couple of handfuls of people met at the campus flag pole for a meeting. That was the beginning of a ministry that went on for some time in various ways and various places at that campus. It was turned over to a group which continued for a couple of years. I don't know if anyone from that A&M flag pole meeting was at Burleston, maybe and maybe not; I do like to hope there is some connection. The point is, students at all our schools should be given better opportunity to know the love of God and His truth, and the Christian history of this nation.

This paragraph has been extracted from a student's web page at http://webstu.messiah.edu/~ah1243/mission.htm

In April of 1990 a group of students in Burleston, Tx met for a discipleship meeting. They decided to visit three different school campuses and pray around the flag pole on each campus. Two months later at a youth rally in Dallas, twenty-thousand youth were invited to do the same.

By Sept 12th of that same year, 1200 schools in four states had flag pole prayer meetings.

By 1991 the event had grown nation-wide.

See You at the Pole website