What does it look like to have a ministry that invites students into spiritual leadership? Where have you seen kids step up and see God work and how has that impacted their view of their identity created in the image of God and equipped for every good work?

Yeah, I would say our boss, Randy Davis, talks about how student leadership was a part of youth ministry in the 90s, and then it kind of faded away.

But we need to start seeing students as a part of the church.

The students that are involved in church leadership and given responsibilities, those are the ones that stay.

And so something even like I see with the poll, from my experience, being in the same location doing youth ministry for the last 20 years, I've been able to watch where students were equipped and empowered to go just pray for their school.

They start to get a vision for their school, start to get compassion for their school.

And then that moves them.

What would you advise students who may be feeling trepidatious about participating in such an event?

What does it look like to have a ministry that invites students into spiritual leadership? Where have you seen kids step up and see God work? And how has that impacted their view of their identity, created in the image of God and equipped for every good work?

Yeah, I would say, um, our boss, uh, Randy Davis, talks about how student leadership was a part of youth ministry in the '90s, and then it kind of faded away.

Um, but we need to start seeing students as a part of the church.

The students that are involved in church leadership and given responsibilities, those are the ones that stay.

And so something even like a See You at the Pole, um, from my experience, being in the same location doing youth ministry for the last 20 years, I've been able to watch where students were equipped and empowered to go just pray for their school.

Um, they start to get a vision for their school, start get p- compassion for their school, and, and then that moves them.

It, it changes them, right? Instead of us telling them that there's needs, they start...

Mm-hmm