Durant Prayer
Prayer is Part Of Each School Day For These Durant Students
Local Students Seek Jesus At School and find Him Each Morning
By Phyllis Imhoff
Durant, FL - One by one they come. With an attitude of reverence, dropping their book bags and bowing their heads as they join hands to pray.
Every morning you can see them gathered around the flagpole at Durant High School praying. No one makes them come; they do not get credit for this, yet still they come.
Most of the students belong to a club called FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes), but this group is not limited. Each day different ones come for different reasons. And they pray for the school, for the teachers and for personal needs.
“I come because I enjoy it, and I love God. I have seen people touched.” James Booth a senior at Durant comments.
One came to pray for a loved ones surgery, they were fine. Another came to pray for a house to be sold, and shortly after it was sold for cash. They come because God shows up and he hears their cry and answers.
“A lot of people were saved this year.” Emily Murbach says with an excited smile. She is president of the FCA at Durant and also holds a Bible study at her home on Tuesdays where about 30 teenagers come to learn the Word.
We use relationship evangelism, and it really works well.” Murbach asserted.
“This whole thing started after the annual ‘see you at the pole’ about three years ago,” said Mr. Reily, one of the overseers of the club.
“It is all student oriented, the kids take charge, plan guest speakers, and organize everything themselves, we just watch over it.” We include Mr. (Coach) Jordan, Mr. Keiser, and Mr. Johnson, the sponsors for The FCA club at Durant, which has now reached nearly 80 members. It is apart of the National organization for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and that program is oriented towards athletics’, but it is not exclusively for athletes. Anyone can come. And they keep coming.
“I’ve really seen it grow,” said James Booth. “Its right there in the front of the school everyday, and kids know what it represents. It makes them ask questions and that’s all it takes.”