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3104 Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO 64109

(555) 016-6262

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Take an hour

Worship sets

Six sets a day, two hours each

Live music from 6 AM, then every two hours with a break for silence. The musicians change; the room stays.

Black and white photo of a worship band on stage with a cross

This week

When there's music in the room

Between sets the room is quiet. The quiet hours, midnight to 6 AM, never have music.

SundayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 2–4 PM

    Afternoon set

    Acoustic

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

MondayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 12–2 PM

    Midday Scripture set

    Psalms sung through

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

TuesdayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 12–2 PM

    Midday Scripture set

    Psalms sung through

    Music
  • 2–4 PM

    Afternoon set

    Acoustic

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

WednesdayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 12–2 PM

    Midday Scripture set

    Psalms sung through

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

ThursdayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 12–2 PM

    Midday Scripture set

    Psalms sung through

    Music
  • 2–4 PM

    Afternoon set

    Acoustic

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

FridayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 12–2 PM

    Midday Scripture set

    Psalms sung through

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

SaturdayToday

  • 12–6 AM

    Quiet hours

    No music

    Silence
  • 6–8 AM

    Dawn set

    Piano and voice

    Music
  • 10 AM–12

    Morning set

    Full team

    Music
  • 2–4 PM

    Afternoon set

    Acoustic

    Music
  • 6–8 PM

    Dusk set

    Full team

    Music
  • 10 PM–12

    Late set

    Keys and cello

    Music

Recorded sets

Listen from wherever you are

A few sets a week are recorded straight off the room mics. No edits, coughs included.

Glass votive candles glowing in a churchLate set

Now playing

Watchmen on the walls

Selma DelacroixOct 4Isaiah 62

0:00 / 118:00
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Glass votive candles glowing in a church10 PM to midnightLate set

2 recordingsKeys and cello, mostly slow, for the hour before the quiet.

Two open Bibles stacked on a dark backgroundMidday Scripture setPsalms sung through

2 recordingsOne psalm a day, sung line by line.

Woman with open hands lifted before a bright stage6 to 8 AMDawn set

1 recordingPiano and a single voice, first light through the bank windows.

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Coming up

Nights with a theme

Oct16

Night watch for the city

10:00 PM · Long table

Ten until six, praying street by street down Troost from the river to 85th.

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Oct31

All Hallows' Eve vigil

8:00 PM · The room

Candles for everyone you've lost this year. Names read at midnight.

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Nov20

Night watch for the city

10:00 PM · Long table

This month: the schools, one building at a time.

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Nov29

Advent: the new season begins

6:00 PM · The room

Watch-keepers renew or hand on their hours. Soup in the kitchen.

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Dec24

Christmas Eve, all night

11:00 PM · The room

Carols at midnight, then silence until the dawn set.

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Nothing in that category this month.

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Open every hour of every day since March 3, 2019. Ring the night bell after midnight. 3104 Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO 64109 · (555) 016-6262

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Design notes

Why Nightwatch looks the way it does

Nightwatch is designed to be read in the dark. It opens in its dark theme, with candle-amber type on a blue-black ground, because most of the people looking at it are checking a watch slot at 11 PM or deciding whether to drive over at 2 AM. The page is quiet, slow and spacious on purpose.

Built for
People in Kansas City who pray, or want to: weekly watch-keepers, worship musicians, night-shift workers looking for somewhere to go, and anyone sending a request at a hard hour.
Navigation
Full-screen menu. Only a Menu button shows; it opens a full-screen index with large type. Keeps the first screen uncluttered.
Pages
Home, Visit the room, Take an hour, Worship sets, Send a request, Our story
Hero
A single verse or sentence set enormous as the opening statement, with its reference, a short supporting line and one action. Variants: a = the quote fills the width with a hanging quotation mark; b = the quote beside a tall photograph; c = the reference becomes the architecture, with the book name and a giant outlined chapter and verse in the left column

Typography

Marcellus is drawn from Roman inscriptional capitals, the letters carved over doorways and on old bank fronts like the one Nightwatch meets in. Set large and alone, a single verse in Marcellus feels permanent. Alegreya Sans carries the reading at 18 pixels; its pen-shaped strokes keep a family resemblance with the display face without competing.

Color

The palette is the room itself after midnight: a blue-black like the windows on Troost, the beeswax amber of the candles on the long table, and a pale pre-dawn blue for links and details. The light theme is the same room at 6 AM, cool slate with a deeper amber, and it was chosen separately rather than flipped.

Layout and navigation

A full-screen menu keeps the first screen empty apart from the verse and one action. There are only six pages and people come back to the same two (take an hour, send a request), so a large, calm index works better than a busy header bar.

The hero

Isaiah 62:6 is the reason the house exists, so it is the first and largest thing on the site, with a hanging quotation mark and nothing else competing. The line beneath says plainly that the room is open now, which is the fact people most need at night.

Calls to action

Take an hour is the one action that keeps the room full, so it is in the corner of every page. The others are concrete: Send a prayer request, Come to the room. Buttons are set as underlined words in Marcellus, closer to a sign on a door than a button on an app.

Photography

Low light, small numbers of people, candles and hands. We avoided arena worship photos with stage rigs because the room holds forty people at most and usually has six.

Accessibility

Body text is 18 pixels with a long line height, and amber on blue-black passes AA comfortably at body size. The room's access details (step-free door, the night bell, the quiet hours) are written out in full on the visit page, and every form label is visible rather than a placeholder.

Type system

  • DisplayMarcellusA flared Roman modelled on carved inscriptions: it has the gravity of words cut into a lintel, but its soft terminals keep it from feeling cold at three in the morning.
  • TextAlegreya SansA humanist sans with a calligraphic pulse that echoes Marcellus, and it stays comfortable on a dim phone screen in a dark room.

Colour and contrast

Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.

Dark theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa14.77:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa13.42:1AAA
Secondary textAa6.52:1AA
LinksAa9.1:1AAA
Button textAa9.2:1AAA
Accent label textAa8.03:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa15.53:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.82:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa9.2:1AAA
Muted text on brand bandsAa5.53:1AA

Light theme

PairingSampleRatioWCAG
Body text on pageAa14.82:1AAA
Body text on cardsAa16.64:1AAA
Secondary textAa5.54:1AA
LinksAa5.49:1AA
Button textAa6.18:1AA
Accent label textAa7.3:1AAA
Text on dark bandsAa14.82:1AAA
Muted text on dark bandsAa7.82:1AAA
Text on brand bandsAa6.18:1AA
Muted text on brand bandsAa4.64:1AA

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