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Emerge Church to Host Night to Shine Celebration Event for People with Special Needs

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Emerge Church to Host Night to Shine Celebration Event for People with Special Needs 
Sponsored by Tim Tebow Foundation 
BRISBANE, QLD Emerge Church announced today that they will serve as a host of the 2025 Night to Shine, sponsored by the Tim Tebow Foundation. The unforgettable worldwide celebration event, centered on God’s love, honouring and valuing people with special needs will be held by host churches around the world simultaneously on February 7 & 8, 2025. Emerge is excited to join hundreds of other organisations around the globe in celebrating people with disabilities as God’s image bearers. 
Night to Shine is hosted every year by churches on the Friday & Saturday before Valentine’s Day around the world. Emerge Church is the only church in QLD hosting this event. Each event is unique to its location, but some cornerstone activities included across all of them are a red carpet entrance complete with a warm welcome from a friendly crowd and paparazzi, hair and makeup stations, shoeshines, limousine/exotic car rides, karaoke, gifts, a catered dinner, a Sensory Room, a Respite Room for parents and caregivers, dancing, and a crowning ceremony where every guest is honoured as a King or Queen – the way God sees them each and every day. 
“Night to Shine is my favourite night of the year! It’s my favourite because we get to celebrate so many Kings and Queens and share how much they are loved by us and by the God of this universe. Our goal is to be able to get to every person with special needs around the world – until all are celebrated. No matter what city, no matter what country, no matter where you are, we want Night to Shine to be there.” said Tim Tebow, founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation. 
As sponsor of Night to Shine, the Tim Tebow Foundation provides each host church with the official 2025 Night to Shine Planning Manual, personalised guidance and support from a Tim Tebow Foundation staff member, the opportunity to apply for a financial grant, and access to planning resources that will assist them in creating an unforgettable experience for their honoured guests. The foundation also provides access to ongoing disability ministry resources through Shine On. Shine On, a ministry of the Tim Tebow Foundation, is a faith-based community – a source of inspiration, belonging, and education for everyone impacted by disability. Shine On envisions a global community of churches and families that foster belonging and purpose for all.  
Over the past 10 years, Night to Shine, through hundreds of churches worldwide, has provided over half a million guest experiences and over a million volunteer experiences.  

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For additional information on the Night to Shine hosted by Emerge in Brisbane visit 
https://emergechurch.life/nts

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About us:

ABOUT EMERGE CHURCH: 
Emerge Church exists that Jesus would emerge in us to impact the world around us. 
We are based in the northern suburbs of Brisbane to attract people of all ages and stages to the Good News of Jesus. Emerge Church will endeavour to make disciples of Christ whose lives example Jesus and make the teachings of Christ attractive. Our faith will not be just Sunday Christianity but rather a lifestyle lived throughout every day.  
The message of Salvation and Redemption will be central to everything we do. We embrace the Holy Spirit and His work and place great importance on The Baptism in the Holy Spirit.  
We want people to belong here at Emerge Church, to feel safe in bringing their children, friends, and extended family to be part of our community. We want to look after our children, teach our youth, disciple our young adults, train our parents, and honour our mature members. 
We will enable people to find their purpose, and to take hold of “that” for which Christ Jesus also took hold of them... (Philippians 3:12) We will encourage people to find their “that”, their God-given call.  
We will be Pastor led, Board Empowered, Staff/Leader Driven and motivated by the needs of the congregation.  
We will be a mission minded church that see’s us having impact all around our community, city, country and world. We will teach and encourage generosity in giving to God and each other.  
Emerge Church is part of the Australian Christian Churches and as such ascribe to the belief statements of the ACC. 
https://emergechurch.com.au 
ABOUT TIM TEBOW FOUNDATION: 
The Tim Tebow Foundation exists to bring Faith, Hope and Love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need. We are called to fight for the world’s most vulnerable people through our four main areas of ministry focus – Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation, Orphan Care + Prevention, Profound Medical Needs, and Special Needs Ministry. To learn more about how the Tim Tebow Foundation is serving the world’s most vulnerable people, please visit 
www.timtebowfoundation.org.    

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