SYATP 2024 How To Plan Your Event
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Summary
In this episode, Luke and Joel discuss the importance of Sea with the Pole and how you can organize this event in your school. This event is a great opportunity for your students and staff to come together and pray together.
Transcript
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Good day to your students. I'm Joel. And I'm Luke. And we are for King and Country.
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It's interesting that we get to talk about Sea with the Pole today because I remember
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when I was about 13, 14 years old as a homeschooler, I actually got the opportunity to go to the
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local school to actually gather with some of my friends, some of my peers to Sea with the
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Pole. So this has always been something that has kind of been real close to me in my heart
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because I've been able to see the power in prayer and to be able to see when schools
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and students get together and surround that flag and be able to pray together, something
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Can you feel your heart begin to raise? Can you see the tide begin to change? With all
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of our futures are rearranged. The world will never be the same before God is with us.
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Sea with the Pole is actually initiated by students and is also led and organized. So really it's an
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opportunity for you guys to step up. No teachers, no youth groups. It's up to you.
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Yeah. And I think there's a great opportunity there to show leadership in your school to say,
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hey, we're not going to lean on parents or teachers or anyone else to organize this. We are going to
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take initiative. We're going to hand out flyers. We're going to do whatever it takes to rally our
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students to meet on this particular day. And we want to help you walk through and kind of work
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through how to do Sea with the Pole this year. So you have to have a plan for something like this.
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Are you going to pray in small groups? Are you going to pray in large groups? Are you going to have
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any worship? What is it that is going to make your Sea with the Pole special and unique to you? So
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obviously you've got to have a plan or else maybe it'll get a little awkward. Legally,
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you don't have to do this, but it might be a good idea to go to your school administration and say
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to them, hey, this is what we're doing. This is the time we're going to do it. This is obviously
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where we're going to do it. Just so that there's awareness and maybe even that's an opportunity for
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you to kind of continue to rally leaders and teachers around what's happening. So something very
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important is to figure out where you're going to be. Obviously, if you have a flagpole,
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would be an appropriate place to meet. But if you don't or if it rains, what are you going to do
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then? So have a backup plan. Have another location that's centralized in your school that you can say,
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hey, this is where we're going to be at this time and you'll be rocking it. The best time for Sea
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with the Pole to start is 7am. That's what we encourage. But some schools don't start till 8 or
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later or whatever that might be. Find out what that time is for your school and make sure that
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absolutely everybody knows about it. So See You at the Pole always falls on the fourth Wednesday of
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September every year. So make sure you let friends know early so they can mark their calendar. Now,
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before you go and start setting this whole thing up, it might be good just to double check that no one
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is already organizing and publicizing this. But if they're not, then do whatever you can. Telling
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friends to tell friends. Really rallying around this. Making an announcement. This is where we're
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going to be. This is when it's going to be. The more you can prep this in advance, the greater impact
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you're going to have on the day. Certainly don't be afraid to use those social media outlets. Speaking
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of social networking, go to syatp.com and that's where everything is. You can get, you've got artwork,
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you get flyers printed, all the information you need to make sure this is rocking and rolling is on
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there. So make sure you check that out. Coming from two musicians, if you do have worship there
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at your event, let's remember that this event is actually not about us getting up there and singing
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songs, whatever. It's about the power of prayer. I feel like one of the coolest things about prayer
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is what it does to us. It's so unifying. There's so much division so often in life, in school,
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in relationships, and prayer really unites our hearts, not only with God, but with each other. And
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that's why it's so important to have people there, to have a group there because it's about praying
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together. Scripture talks about where two or more are gathered than I am in their midst. So having
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that incredible turnout where you're all aligning your hearts at one point and one moment is incredible.
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So after the event, when it's all said and done, we want to hear your stories. So go to syatp.com
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and you'll see on there, there's a little section where you can leave sort of a testimonial. You can share
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your stories about what happened, how many folks showed up, and how incredible this moment was
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where you all came together at the pole. We'll look forward to seeing you around that flagpole
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or in that place that you guys have all set up to meet at. And let's lift up prayers together to God
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as one nation, as students honoring Him. Let's see you at the pole. We'll look forward to it.