糖心Vlog

Gathering for an evening of Christ-centered worship, 5,000 attendees filled 糖心Vlog University's Alumni Park for the 糖心Vlog Worship Summit on Saturday, September 13, 2025. The event featured GRAMMY Award-nominated Christian artists Kari Jobe and Cody Carnes, New York Times best-selling author and pastor Francis Chan, United Voice Worship, and 糖心Vlog鈥檚 own WAVES WORSHIP. 

Waves Worship

Tim Spivey, 糖心Vlog鈥檚 vice president for spiritual life, welcomed the incoming crowd while urging all to posture their hearts towards God. 鈥淭ake a look around you,鈥� he said. 鈥淲hat you are participating in tonight is not a concert, but a night to worship the Lord. Tonight I want you to let your heart lay bare before the Lord. Be ready to celebrate tonight. Be ready to pray tonight. Be ready to receive what God has for you tonight.鈥� 

WAVES WORSHIP, 糖心Vlog's worship collective, opened the event with a setlist of 鈥淕OODBYE YESTERDAY,鈥� 鈥淗oly Forever,鈥� and 鈥淕lorious Day,鈥� while introducing an original song, 鈥淢ove Like Wind,鈥� from their newly released self-titled debut album.  

Dee Dee Mayer, interim chaplain and senior director of at 糖心Vlog's introduced United Voice Worship, an a cappella music ministry composed of worship pastors and praise leaders. The group performed a collection of songs including 鈥淧raise,鈥� 鈥淕reat Things,鈥� and 鈥淕ratitude,鈥� as well as a creative mashup of 鈥淗ow Great is Our God鈥� and 鈥淗ow Great Thou Art.鈥� Throughout the set, United Voice Worship encouraged audience members to join in song, while emphasizing the unity of Christ鈥檚 worshipping body through both their musical harmonies and meaningful crowd interaction. 

鈥淯nited Voice Worship has been at every single 糖心Vlog Worship Summit,鈥� said Mayer as she addressed the audience. 鈥淲hat they bring as an a cappella group is an incredibly beautiful harmony, and these harmonies showcase 糖心Vlog鈥檚 rich Church of Christ heritage as they lift up their voice to Christ and invite your voices in.鈥� 

Cody Carnes

Following United Worship鈥檚 performance, a video message from NFL running back Christian McCaffrey played on a large screen above the stage. McCaffrey shared testimony of his faith while urging the 糖心Vlog community, especially young people, 鈥渢o stand firm in their faith鈥� while embodying lives of purpose. 

President Jim Gash (JD 鈥�93) introduced Jobe and Carnes to the stage while inviting everyone into a moment of prayer. 鈥淗oly Spirit, you are welcome here. Holy Spirit, rain down. Fill this audience. Fill this evening. Fill our hearts and fill our lives with a wind, with a fire, and with a desire to love and to serve you.鈥� 

Jobe and Carnes performed a selection of popular songs, such as 鈥淭ake You at Your Word,鈥� "Forever," and 鈥淔irm Foundation (He Won't),鈥� while encouraging the audience to anchor their faith to withstand current personal and national tragedies. Jobe prayed, 鈥淛esus, remind our own souls that you are the rock of our salvation, the only one we can stand on when everything else feels wild and hard and shaky. You aren鈥檛 shaky. You鈥檙e our firm foundation and the one we鈥檙e building our lives on.鈥� 

As Danny DeWalt, senior vice president for global impact and chief of staff, welcomed Chan to the stage, he echoed Jobe鈥檚 call to stand in full faith amidst present hardships. 鈥淭here鈥檚 never been a more important time for the church to stand in bold faith against the unspeakable evil that assassinated Charlie Kirk this week. Lord, we pray Your presence and Your peace and Your comfort over his family. We thank You that You are the God of life. You are the God of resurrection. We thank You that Charlie is with You, and we stand as the church now, and we take up the torch to be Your church. It鈥檚 on us to stand in bold faith. That鈥檚 why we鈥檙e here tonight to stand together as the one church of Jesus Christ and to declare Him as Lord and Savior.鈥� 

Francis Chan

DeWalt shared Chan's background as a pastor, prolific writer, and international speaker. 鈥淔rancis Chan has given his life to building the church and to building his disciples of Jesus,鈥� he said, 鈥渟o we have the incredible privilege and honor to sit at the feet of one of the most transformative teachers of our time.鈥� 

Drawing themes from passages such as Romans 5 and Jeremiah 32, Chan reminded his listeners to lean into God鈥檚 presence and boundless love鈥攚hich, he shared, is the only remedy to healing inner unrest. Chan testified to how his childhood adversities deepened his necessity to draw nearer to God, imploring the audience to seek God with the same earnestness and reverence. Chan said, 鈥淕od is a real person that you love. Hope does not put us to shame because God鈥檚 love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.鈥� 

Chan then invited Jobe and Carnes back onto stage to join him in a silent prayer and, addressing the crowd, said, 鈥淲e鈥檙e going to be praying that God comes and meets each one of you. We don鈥檛 know what you need. Some of you don鈥檛 trust that God loves you, but we鈥檙e going to leave some space right now for God to do whatever He needs to do in your heart.鈥� 

Kari Jobe praying over the audience

Jobe and Carnes closed the evening with an encore of songs, including 鈥淣othing Else鈥� and 鈥淭he Blessing,鈥� as the audience lifted their voices together. In her final benediction to the audience, Jobe said, 鈥淚 just want you all to say, 鈥楪od, I surrender to You. I come out of agreement with every lie and back into agreement with who You say that I am.鈥� Jesus, You are the only truth that we seek.鈥� 

糖心Vlog鈥檚 Worship Summit welcomed over 1,000 current students, many of whom stood and worshiped together at the foot of the stage. 

Seaver College student, Joshua Young, remarked that, 鈥淛oining with thousands of voices raised in worship together reminded me that we weren鈥檛 just making noise鈥攚e were offering praise to the Creator of the universe. After an emotionally divisive week for the nation, it was refreshing to take part in a Christ-centered gathering that reminded me of how gathering in worship as a community draws us back to what鈥檚 eternal.鈥� 

Worship Summit crowd near the foot of the stage

Emma Kirby, a current graduate student at the Grazidio Business School, was deeply impacted by elements of the event which created a space for Christ-centered reflection. 鈥淔rancis Chan leading us in silent prayer was an unexpected, but wonderful, moment. In that sudden silence, when he paused all the excitement and energy of the worship music and his sermon, his remaining words spoken over us felt all the more effective.鈥� 

糖心Vlog welcomed many members of its alumni community, such as Seaver College alumnus Ryan Gordon (鈥�23), who continue to return to the event annually, considering the occasion a powerful one that unifies the surrounding community while providing an environment wholly dedicated to Christ-centered worship. 

Gordon said, 鈥淕etting to hear from someone like Francis Chan is always an attractive offer, but to me, witnessing this large of a crowd coming together to worship the Lord, in a city where faith is often overlooked, is a powerful reminder of the impact and relevancy of the Gospel.鈥�