Testify! Live – Indianapolis

Join us for Testify! Live on Friday, October 2, 2026 at Eastern Star Church in Indianapolis, IN. 

Testify! Live is the project’s flagship public gathering that includes a series of five citywide events held over the grant period in Indianapolis (2026), Atlanta (2027), Houston (2028), Los Angeles (2029), and Chicago (2030), reaching more than 12,000 attendees nationwide. Each event brings testimony out of the margins of worship and into a full-scale artistic experience: curated testimonies are paired with live music, visual art, spoken word, and dance, all woven around a seven-fold theological framework: God creates, comforts, heals, transforms, gives rest, belonging and commissions.

Every event is preceded by an artist-lay collaboration retreat, where professional artists are paired with everyday believers from partner congregations to co-create original pieces rooted in real, lived testimony. Those pieces premiere on stage at the Testify! Live event and are then archived for use in the toolkit and digital campaigns, turning one person’s story into art that can travel far beyond the room it was created in.

The model isn’t theoretical. It was piloted on July 9, 2025, at Bethel AME Cathedral in Indianapolis, where 140 attendees and 19 professional and lay artists from their 20s to their 80s gathered for an evening blending gospel and jazz, quilting and spoken word. Every survey respondent rated the experience of 4 or 5 stars, and nearly three-quarters said they intended to start practicing testimony within three months, strong early evidence that this format moves people to action.

Registration coming soon!