Spring Break
Students organize day-long prayer
By: Stacy Edwards
Issue date: 10/25/07 Section: News
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It was after attending this year's See You at the Pole event that Texas A&M students Lewis Barclay Bell and Jamison Hoelscher decided to pursue the idea of an all-day prayer gathering, which became Tuesday's Dawn 2 Dusk.
Students gathered around the flagpole in the Academic Plaza from 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to pray together.
Bell, a freshman aerospace engineering and physics major, said the idea was inspired by a poor showing at the early morning See You at the Pole event.
"Jamison Hoelscher and I met at See You at the Pole on Sept. 26, and, despite the 356 confirmed guests on the Facebook group, only about 15-20 people were there," Bell said. "Afterwards, Jamison mentioned possibly doing SYATP all day long, and we took the idea and ran with it."
Bell said they felt more students would participate in an event like this if it was advertised better and was scheduled later in the day.
Hoelscher, a junior business major, said he felt compelled to have an event like this but was unsure how to go about it.
"The organization of it sounded way too much for me to handle," Hoelscher said. "So I told the people that were still left - Lewis Barclay Bell, Chris Starnes and Kristen Muller - about the idea God had given me, and they all encouraged it."
Hoelscher said Bell got passionately involved about it and the two of them started asking friends and local churches to help out.
"We started asking our friends if they wanted to become involved as a prayer leader and we were able to get a few from each of the Christian Bible study organizations on campus - Campus Crusade for Christ, Navigators, A&M Christian Fellowship - as well as people from local churches," Hoelscher said.
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