Our Vision
Put Hope in Reach by Bringing Prayer Back
SchoolPrayer seeks to equip teachers and students with a privately supported program that restores a culture where students meet daily to pray at school. SchoolPrayer began in Lemmon in 2022 and has since expanded to Hettinger. Our goal is to reach at least 25 additional locations in the next school year.
How it began · 2022
One student’s question started a movement
After a youth group gathering, a student asked founder Scott Peterson a question he could not put down: why can’t we feel the presence of the Holy Spirit at school every day?
The answer became SchoolPrayer: a short, consistent, student-welcoming gathering before the school day, held every single school day, because life does not calendar its hardest days. Students from nearly every denomination in town show up. Denomination never comes up. The door is open to anyone.
Our mission, in the founders’ own words: “serving and glorifying our awesome God by giving students a daily place to connect with their faith inside the school day.”
Proven & portable
Two towns already start their day this way
the original
Lemmon, South Dakota
Every school morning · 7:30–7:45 AM. The original gathering, led by founder Scott Peterson: prayer requests in the prayer box, an encouraging word, and prayer together before the first bell. Ten to twenty students on a typical morning, drawn from a school of about ninety.
proof it travels
Hettinger, 25 miles away
Tuesdays & Thursdays. Led by Kyle Geaumont on its own rhythm, proof the model is portable. No rigid template is imposed on a leader; flexibility is a feature, consistency is the heart.
Ready to bring fifteen minutes of prayer to your school?
Start a team in your town →The road ahead
Where this is going
These are the milestones the founders have set. Not projections, but the destination they believe God is calling this movement toward, planned carefully and built to last.
A student’s question becomes a morning
SchoolPrayer begins in Lemmon with 8–10 students, after the school’s attorney confirms it stands on solid legal ground.
Two groups, four years of mornings
Daily in Lemmon, twice a week in Hettinger. Over 30 students some mornings, and a model proven to travel.
25 active groups, each with a named champion
New groups launched from a written playbook, so a motivated teacher in another town can start on a Monday morning.
250 schools across the country
The same playbook, carried coast to coast, with a prayer team and a named champion in every school.
Who carries it
The founding team
founder
Scott Peterson
Educator, technology coordinator, and 30-year coach. Leads the Lemmon gathering every school morning and mentors the champions who will lead the next ones.
co-founder
Brad Wheeler
Businessman and the movement's founding supporter, holding the bar of ten groups in eighteen months and helping build a mission that outlasts any one person.
Hettinger lead
Kyle Geaumont
Leads the Hettinger gathering: the living proof that SchoolPrayer travels, and the model for every champion who comes next.
operations
Gordon Stewart
Building the connective tissue: communications, relationships, and the systems that let a growing movement stay personal.
Be the champion your school is waiting for.
Every school on that map starts the same way: one person answers the call. We provide the playbook, the training, and the support. You provide the morning.
