What is an Encounter?
An Encounter is an experience where one is led to have a personal encounter with God. During the Encounter weekend the participant is carefully led to confront the past and the present with the Word of God, so that God's purpose and plan for the future can be revealed and released. After the Encounter faith is activated, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are stirred up, and one is launched into a phase of preparation and discipleship to become a leader of God's people.
The goals of the Encounter are:
To draw closer to God.
To experience the blessing of true forgiveness.
To be healed and delivered from fears, anger, or addictions.
To receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
To receive clear direction, vision, and purpose for your life.
What happens at an Encounter?
Through the Encounter one realizes that there is so much more in life after "accepting Jesus." Relationships are healed and restored with God's love and forgiveness. Dysfunctional, destructive, and sinful lifestyles are confronted with God's grace and turned around toward God and His care.
The Encounter Weekend
At the Encounter, the weekend is spent in several sessions that cover repentance, healing of hurts and emotions, deliverance, what Jesus did on the Cross, the Holy Spirit, and God's plan and vision. In each of these sessions, the participants are led to "walk through scriptures" and allow God to touch them personally, whether to confront sin and receive forgiveness or to reveal a deep hurt and receive the healing.
Is it for me?
At these Encounters a miracle will happen in your life through the focused and powerful teaching of God's Word. You will be individually prayed for and ministered to by the Encounter team, who expects nothing less than God's power to radically change your life. Prior to the weekend, the Encounter team spends about one week in prayer and fasting for the Encounter and all the participants, including you.
If you desire a change in your life because nothing is happening and life seems to be going nowhere, or you want to be used more by God, then, the Encounter is for you!
Hear from changed lives?
Let us look at what some men and women have to say about their experience at an Encounter.
Personal stories soon to come! |
