A campus-wide night of worship and apologetics
A Night with
the Son.
Every Christian ministry on a campus comes together for one night of worship in the biggest room in town.
In one paragraph
A Night with the Son is a campus-wide worship night: every Christian ministry on a college campus unites to fill the largest arena on that campus for one night of worship and apologetics. The first was held Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on the Indiana University (IU) campus in Bloomington, Indiana, where 7,500 people attended, 766 committed or recommitted their lives to Jesus, and 1,850 committed to sharing the gospel more. Twelve IU campus ministries built the coalition that put it on, and all twelve still meet every week.
The movement so far
7,500+
attended
including 4,000+ IU students
766
committed or
recommitted their lives
1,850
committed to
sharing the gospel more
Attendance and response figures self-reported by A Night with the Son. Student attendance as reported by the Indiana Daily Student, April 9, 2026.
The format
How a night
comes together.
A night is built the same way on every campus. The ministries unite first, the room comes second, and it ends by handing students off to the ministries that will still be there next week.
Unite the whole campus
Every ministry on campus comes to the night to worship together.
Book the biggest room on it
We book and fill the school's basketball arena, so that students from all over campus are encouraged to come.
Worship, then the gospel
A full night of worship, then speakers who answer questions that students have.
Hand off to the ministries
Everyone who responds leaves knowing which ministry to walk into that week. The night is one evening. The ministries that put it on meet all year.
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.
The night exists to worship Jesus, and nothing else. We bring in familiar voices to help lead it.
- Worship
- Tiffany Hudson, Elevation Worship
- Message
- Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle
- Runtime
- 1 hour 45 minutes
- Coalition
- 12 campus ministries
The lineup
Who led
the night.
Give Me An Answer
Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle
A father and son who have spent decades answering the questions students ask on college campuses. Cliffe stayed two more days for open Q&A.
Two days of open Q&A.
givemeananswer.orgFind your people
Pick your campus.
These are the ministries that make a night last. They help fill the arena, and they are still meeting every week afterward. We build a coalition like this on a campus before we book anything.
Select your campus
Indiana University has a coalition of twelve. Pick it to see who meets where, and when. Pick Coming soon to tell us your campus is waiting.
Who invited the campus
Including Fernando Mendoza and Omar Cooper.
Fernando Mendoza went first overall in the 2026 NFL Draft and Omar Cooper Jr. went in the first round. The same season they led Indiana to an undefeated national championship, they helped invite their campus to the night.
- 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.
The response
134 gave their lives to Jesus for the first time.
632 recommitted theirs.
Over ten percent of the room
All 766 left knowing which ministry to walk into that week.
The movement
Where it's been.
Where it's going.
We go to one campus at a time. A night works when every ministry on the ground has already decided to do it together, and that takes time to build.
Indiana University
Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall · Bloomington, Indiana · April 8, 2026
12 ministries signed on, the arena filled, and 766 people committed or recommitted their lives to Jesus.
7,500+ attended · 766 responded · 12 ministries united
See the nightCompleteWhere we go next
We go where a campus is ready to go together. Our community hears the next one first.
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Where we'll
be next.
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