When will the syatp mark its 20th year of student-led prayers?
LYNCHBURG, VA, Sept. 23 /Christian Newswire/ — Today millions of students are celebrating the twentieth annual “See You at the Pole” (“SYATP”) event, where students gather to pray for their school, their community and America. This year the largest gathering of students for this annual event will be at Liberty University, the world’s largest and fastest-growing evangelical university, with 11,940 students on campus and an anticipated 47,000 students off campus during the 2009-2010 academic year. These students are gathering at a time of increasing hostility in our courts towards prayer. A case in point involves Santa Rosa County in Florida, where Liberty Counsel successfully defended two honorable school employees on National Constitution Day against a charge of criminal contempt for praying over a meal. As a student-initiated movement, this prayer movement has the protection of the First Amendment. Church congregations nationwide showed their support last Sunday for “See You at the P
