Thousands of college students from around the country are expected to gather in Arlington next year for the annual Passion Conference. 

The Christian gathering, which is aimed at 18 to 25-year-olds, is slated to be held Jan. 1-3, 2026, in the Globe Life Field. The three-day conference features worship, prayer and sermons from numerous pastors. 

Eric Shelton, a senior kinesiology major, attended the 2022 conference in Atlanta and the 2023 event at Dickies Arena. 

“Passion was awesome, especially during my young adult years,” Shelton said. “It helped me start to my own relationship with the Lord and helped me grow in that way and what it meant to be a young adult and grow in community.”

Louie and Shelley Giglio hosted the first Passion Conference in 1997 in Austin, Texas.  

“The same singular mission of Passion has been kept year after year, which is calling students from campuses across the nation and around the world to live for what matters most. For us, what matters most is the name and renown of Jesus,” according to Passion’s Website. 

Hudson Hatton, a sophomore business major in the ROTC program, attended this year’s conference. He said his goal was to know his fellow attendees from the ROTC program on a spiritual level.  

“The sermons were very good, and I got a lot of questions answered, but I couldn’t focus much during the worship segments because it felt more like a concert with all the lights,” Hatton said. “The good outweighed the bad, though, and I recommend people go because the speakers are so good.” 

For Shelton, he enjoyed the worship the most.

“I’ve never experienced something like it anywhere else It felt like a slight earthy sliver of what it might look like,” Shelton said. “There were so many different artists and genres of music all worshiping for the same purpose.”

Tickets for Passion 2026 can be purchased through Passion 2026’s website for $149; they are non-refundable.