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.
3104 Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO 64109
(555) 016-6262
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Worship sets
Live music from 6 AM, then every two hours with a break for silence. The musicians change; the room stays.

This week
Between sets the room is quiet. The quiet hours, midnight to 6 AM, never have music.
SundayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Acoustic
Full team
Keys and cello
MondayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Psalms sung through
Full team
Keys and cello
TuesdayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Psalms sung through
Acoustic
Full team
Keys and cello
WednesdayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Psalms sung through
Full team
Keys and cello
ThursdayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Psalms sung through
Acoustic
Full team
Keys and cello
FridayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Psalms sung through
Full team
Keys and cello
SaturdayToday
No music
Piano and voice
Full team
Acoustic
Full team
Keys and cello
Recorded sets
A few sets a week are recorded straight off the room mics. No edits, coughs included.
Late setNow playing
Selma DelacroixOct 4Isaiah 62
10 PM to midnightLate set2 recordingsKeys and cello, mostly slow, for the hour before the quiet.
Midday Scripture setPsalms sung through2 recordingsOne psalm a day, sung line by line.
6 to 8 AMDawn set1 recordingPiano and a single voice, first light through the bank windows.
Nothing matches that search.
Coming up
Oct16
10:00 PM · Long table
Ten until six, praying street by street down Troost from the river to 85th.
Oct31
8:00 PM · The room
Candles for everyone you've lost this year. Names read at midnight.
Nov20
10:00 PM · Long table
This month: the schools, one building at a time.
Nov29
6:00 PM · The room
Watch-keepers renew or hand on their hours. Soup in the kitchen.
Dec24
11:00 PM · The room
Carols at midnight, then silence until the dawn set.
Nothing in that category this month.
Design notes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every text pairing is checked against WCAG 2.2 in both themes.
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.77:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 13.42:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 6.52:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 9.1:1 | AAA |
| Button text | Aa | 9.2:1 | AAA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 8.03:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 15.53:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.82:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 9.2:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 5.53:1 | AA |
| Pairing | Sample | Ratio | WCAG |
|---|---|---|---|
| Body text on page | Aa | 14.82:1 | AAA |
| Body text on cards | Aa | 16.64:1 | AAA |
| Secondary text | Aa | 5.54:1 | AA |
| Links | Aa | 5.49:1 | AA |
| Button text | Aa | 6.18:1 | AA |
| Accent label text | Aa | 7.3:1 | AAA |
| Text on dark bands | Aa | 14.82:1 | AAA |
| Muted text on dark bands | Aa | 7.82:1 | AAA |
| Text on brand bands | Aa | 6.18:1 | AA |
| Muted text on brand bands | Aa | 4.64:1 | AA |
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