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Luverne Students join national 'See You at the Pole'

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Mavis Fodness

Students at Luverne Middle-High School joined millions of other teenagers for the worldwide annual “See You at the Pole” Wednesday, Sept. 28.
More than 50 local students circled the flagpole in front of the school and joined hands. Many students shared personal prayers of solace in response to incidents of personal violence and hate-laden events in the U.S. and around the world.
“We are hurting,” shared one student.
Theme of this year’s annual event was “We Cry Out.”
Seniors Madison Crabtree and Jenae Hamann led the informal event.
“We are here today to cry out to God,” Hamann said.
“And to allow kids a time to be open in what they believe and to let them know they are not alone,” Crabtree added.
Students huddled in 40-degree temperatures for the 10-minute event  before the start of classes.
It’s the first time in more than a decade that Luverne students participated in the global day of prayer.
Locally, Rock the Edge youth group, of which Hamann and Crabtree are members, organized the event and used social media to invite teens to gather at the flagpole.
Rock the Edge merges youth of various denominations together for encouragement in sharing their Christian faiths to live in harmony with one another.
In remembrance of 9-11 the students conducted a food drive and gathered almost 1,000 pounds of non-perishable items for the Rock County Food Shelf.
“See You at the Pole” began as a grassroots global day of prayer in 1990 to lift up friends, families, teachers, schools and the nation to God.
According to the SYATP website, the September event annually draws more than 3 million participants from around the world.

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