80,000 filled AT&T Stadium for one hour of prayer

On Saturday night, October 10, Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell and 2819 Church filled AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys, for one hour of prayer, and asked the rest of the country to pray in that same hour.

Article Summary

• 2819 Church held ACCESS, That Powerful Hour of Prayer, at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday, October 10, at 7 p.m. Central.
• 80,000 free tickets were claimed in eight hours, and 80,000 people filled the stadium.
• Mitchell asked Christians everywhere to pray during the same hour, calling it a national call to prayer.
• He says the real measure is not the crowd. It is whether people leave changed.

Ticket pace is from 2819 Church and from Mitchell's KGGR interview. The 13-times comparison with the church's weekly Sunday crowd is from RELEVANT, Oct. 6, 2026.

A stadium built for football, used for prayer

Saturday night in Arlington usually means noise. On October 10, 80,000 people filled AT&T Stadium and prayed. The night was ACCESS, That Powerful Hour of Prayer, led by Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell of 2819 Church, a congregation on Atlanta's southwest side.

The church named itself for Matthew 28:19, the Great Commission, in January 2023. RELEVANT reported that the 80,000 claimed tickets were about 13 times the church's weekly Sunday crowd. 2819 Church said those tickets were claimed in eight hours. Mitchell told KGGR radio the same.

The stadium's event page laid out the night in three parts: The Cross, The Warning, and The Cry, with voices lifted together in one prayer: "Maranatha! Come, Lord Jesus!"

PRO TIP You do not need a stadium to keep an hour. Pick one hour this week, put your phone in another room, and pray.

It started at a hospital bed

ACCESS did not start with a stage. Mitchell told KGGR it began more than 12 years ago at his father's bedside, while his father fought terminal cancer. After his father died, the family kept the prayer hour going. It grew into church gatherings, then State Farm Arena in Atlanta, and now Arlington.

That is worth sitting with. The biggest prayer meetings often begin in the smallest rooms. On Saturday morning, Mitchell was still in that hour.

The measure is Monday

The stadium was full. Mitchell had already said that was not the goal. He told The Dallas Weekly that ACCESS would have done its job "if the 80,000 people that show up at AT&T Stadium and those who show up in the streets around the stadium and those who pray with us from anywhere around the country, if that night marks them in such a way that they will never be the same after that night."

We agree. Jesus went off to pray alone, then came back down the hill to people who needed Him. The hour matters. What we do after the hour matters too.

Ask the Question - Live the Answer.

PRO TIP Write down one person you prayed for Saturday. Call or text them this week.

What you can do now

1. Keep one hour of prayer each week, at the same time.
2. Pray with someone, not only for them.
3. Find a local church and show up Sunday.
4. Ask the question before your next choice: what would Jesus do?

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Sources

• The Dallas Weekly: Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell Brings a Call for Authentic Faith to Dallas
• RELEVANT, "80,000 Free Tickets Have Been Claimed for 2819 Church's Prayer Night at AT&T Stadium This Saturday" (Oct. 6, 2026)
• KGGR 1040 AM, "A Call to Prayer and Purpose: Dr. Autumn Cannon Interviews Pastor Phillip Anthony Mitchell"
• AT&T Stadium, "2819 ACCESS, That Powerful Hour of Prayer"
• FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, "Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell on ACCESS 2026 & New Book"
• X: stadium crowd at ACCESS
• X: Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell, Saturday morning prayer
• X: on site in Arlington
• X: praying at AT&T Stadium that night
• X: 2819 Church, 80,000 tickets in eight hours
• WWJD.COM: Faith Is Rising
• WWJD.COM: Statement of Faith

Ask the Question - Live the Answer