Saturday, April 7, 2018


My Favorite Volunteer Event . . . Night to Shine
By: Tyler Campbell
Class of 2019


On Friday, February 9, 2018, YMSL and many other Northern Colorado teams worked together to celebrate Night to Shine. Night to Shine is a prom night experience for people with special needs. Thanks to the Tim Tebow Foundation, 537 churches from all around the world hosted 90,000 guests. Here, in Northern Colorado, 450 guests experienced Night to Shine with the help of 1300 volunteers. This was my second year volunteering with my mom and our entire family joined us this year.

Night to Shine was full of laughter and joy. When guests arrive, they walk down the red carpet with paparazzi cheering and snapping photos. Inside, the guests take goofy pictures in the photo booth, sing their hearts out in the karaoke room, and dance the night away on the dance floor. With limousine rides, candlelight dining, and a live band, a full VIP treatment is given to each and every guest. The highlight of the night is when each Night to Shine guest gets crowned as king or queen of the prom.

I had the opportunity to volunteer in the photo booth alongside my mom and other YMSL members. We got to greet the guests, help pick out accessories to wear, and leave them with photos and memories to take home. The photo booth could have been the most popular activity with a line down the hall all night long!

The most rewarding part of volunteering at Night to Shine is seeing the smiles on the guests’ faces. It’s one night a year where they get to dance, sing, have fun, and ride limos. And according to Tim Tebow, “It's so much more than that, because maybe for the first time they realize that they’re worth it … they realize that they are special ... they realize that they are loved … there's nothing much more important than that.”

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