Newlyweds Tim Tebow and former Miss America Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters are celebrating the Tim Tebow Foundation’s 6th annual “Night to Shine” prom for teens and young adults with special needs, and 2020 looks set to welcome the biggest turnout to date.
The Christian athlete’s foundation expects to welcome 115,000 attendees to the worldwide, faith-based Night to Shine event on Feb. 7, 2020—5,000 more than in 2019. The 6th annual prom night comes just weeks after Tim and Nel-Peters’s romantic honeymoon in the Maldives.
The Tebows’ Night to Shine prom comprises a bonafide “red carpet welcome” for all guests, hair and makeup, shoe-shining, a catered dinner, games, dancing, and even karaoke. At the apex of the party, every guest is truly treated like royalty by being crowned king or queen of the prom.
The event is a worldwide affair.
The first prom of 2020’s Night to Shine season was held in Albania on Feb. 3, 2020, and the newlyweds were in attendance to kick things off. The worldwide event will happen on Feb. 7, 2020, one week before Valentine’s Day, when hundreds of proms will take place simultaneously in venues around the world.
Sylvia Washington, chief operating officer at New Mexico-based non-profit Tresco Inc., explained that the non-profit would be hosting Las Cruces’s very first Night to Shine prom on Feb. 7 in collaboration with Calvary Baptist Church.
“We want to have masses of humanity celebrating them, because that doesn’t happen a lot,” Tebow said. “But on February 7 of this year [2020], it’s going to happen with over 200,000 volunteers in over 30 countries.”
“This is truly a way to be the hands and feet of Jesus,” wrote another.
With the help of family, friends, local communities, and the 720 churches that have pledged to host a Night to Shine event in 2020, more people than ever will have the opportunity to celebrate people with special needs.