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A lone figure in a red NWS polo stands at the edge of the stage facing a full Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall

A campus-wide night of worship and apologetics

A Night with
the Son.

Every Christian ministry on a campus stops competing for the same students and books the biggest room in town.

The movement so far

0+

in the room

including 4,000+ IU students

0

committed or

recommitted their lives

0

committed to

sharing it further

Attendance and response figures self-reported by A Night with the Son. Student attendance as reported by the Indiana Daily Student, April 9, 2026.

How a night happens

The same
four moves.

Every Christian ministry on a campus stops competing for the same students and books the biggest room in town. It is not a tour date that drops into town and leaves. Every night is built the same way, and the last step is the one that makes it last.

  1. Unite the whole campus

    Every Christian ministry on campus stops competing for the same students and signs on to one night. Not a coalition of the willing — all of them. At Indiana University that was twelve.

  2. Book the biggest room on it

    Not a chapel. Not a ballroom in the student union. The arena the basketball team plays in. The size of the room is part of the message, and it is the part students tell each other about.

  3. Worship, then a straight answer

    A full worship set with no opener, then apologists who take the hardest questions in the building without flinching. Nobody is asked to check their doubts at the door.

  4. Hand off within the week

    Everyone who responds leaves knowing where to be on Thursday. The night is once; the ministries meet all year. A night that does not hand off is a night that evaporates.

Where it started

Indiana University

Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall · Bloomington, Indiana · Wednesday, April 8, 2026 · 1 hour 45 minutes

The film

One hour,
forty-five minutes.

Worship ran until the room had nothing left. Then two men walked out and made a case for Jesus to seven and a half thousand college students, and a tenth of the building stood up.

Worship
Tiffany Hudson, Elevation Worship
Message
Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle
Runtime
1 hour 45 minutes
Coalition
12 campus ministries

Who took the stage

The voices behind
the night.

Every campus gets a bill this size. A night that asks students to give up an evening has to be worth the evening.

Tiffany Hudson on stage at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall

Elevation Worship

Tiffany Hudson

Led worship for the full night, a seven-song set that ran until the room had nothing left.

Seven songs. No opener.

Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle on stage at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall

Give Me An Answer

Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle

Two generations of the best-known apologists on the American college circuit. Cliffe stayed two more days for open Q&A.

Two days of open Q&A afterward.

Find your people

Pick your campus.

This is the last step, and the one that makes a night last. The night is once; these meet all year. Every ministry in a coalition helps fill the arena, and every one of them takes people home afterward. We build a coalition like this before we book anything — the room is the easy part.

Select your campus

Indiana University has a coalition of twelve. Pick it to see who meets where, and when. Pick anywhere else to tell us your campus is waiting.

Hoosiers united around the cause

Including Fernando Mendoza and Omar Cooper.

Fernando Mendoza went first overall in the 2026 NFL Draft. Omar Cooper Jr. went in the first round too. The same season they led Indiana to an undefeated national championship, they were calling their campus to Christ.

Fernando Mendoza
QB, Heisman winner. No. 1 overall, Las Vegas Raiders.
Omar Cooper Jr.
WR. No. 30 overall, New York Jets.

The night, in frames

What it looks like.

A standing crowd bathed in amber stage light, hands raised, eyes closed
Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall, 8:47 PM
A student in a red NWS polo climbs the stage stairs toward a hazy, packed arena
Stage left, before the last song
Wall-to-wall students filling the stands of Assembly Hall
7,500 people. Every level open.
Shot from section 108
Wide view of the full arena, stage and video walls at left, bowl packed with students
Bloomington, Indiana. April 8, 2026
Cliffe Knechtle alone in a spotlight, one finger raised
The message ran forty minutes
The video wall showing a live close-up of the student crowd under the venue nameplate
The room, watching itself
Two students in worship, one with her hand pressed over her face

The response

134 stood up for the first time.

632 came back.

Over ten percent of the room

All 766 of them left knowing where to be on Thursday.

The movement

Where it's been.
Where it's going.

We take one campus at a time, on purpose. A night only works where every ministry on the ground has already decided to do it together, and that takes longer to build than it takes to book a room.

  1. Indiana University

    Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall · Bloomington, Indiana · April 8, 2026

    12 ministries signed on, the arena filled, and a tenth of the room stood up.

    7,500+ in the room · 766 responded · 12 ministries united

    See the night
    Complete
  2. Where we go next

    We go where a campus is ready to go together. We are not ready to say where yet.

    Keep up with where we go
    In conversation

Stay in the loop

Where we'll
be next.

We're not ready to say where yet. When we are, this list hears it first — and we'll send you the film today, along with the guide to every ministry that caught the people who stood up.

We choose one campus at a time. Knowing where people are asking from is how we see the door open.

Or give to make the next campus happen.