Word: beacham
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...originated in the spring of 1990 in Burleson, Texas, when several public school students told youth minister Billy Beacham that they felt "burdened" by God to pray at their school flagpoles. Southern Baptist state youth evangelism coordinator Chuck Flowers decided to try a Texas-wide version that fall. Beacham remembers predicting 5,000 participants; 48,000 showed. The next year the event went countrywide, and the National Network, which acts as an information clearinghouse for some 100 youth evangelical groups, became involved. Says Clark: "It was like lighting dry brush with a match." The religion-tracking Barna Research Group tallied...
...also more overtly evangelistic than the atonement-oriented adult events. It overlaps another National Network project, Challenge 2000, the aim of which is "to help take the message of Christ to every school and every young person" within two years. Beacham has said that as See You spread, "we weren't even sure it was legal." It is. In 1990 the Supreme Court overwhelmingly sustained the constitutionality of a 1984 law permitting student prayer on school grounds if the prayer is not adult-led or during class hours. But the event still bothers some civil libertarians. Barry Lynn, head...