Introduction to "Encounter"

My personal mission in life is to help people experience an authentic encounter with God…and watch Him do the rest!

This mission was birthed out of a desire to see in my life what the bible declares should be expected by someone who follows Christ. Jesus said, "Anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these". He also said if we stay connected to Him we will see lives changed when we go and preach the good news, deliver from darkness, and heal. Seems like there should be a good Greek word for that…oh wait, there is…SOZO=saved, healed, and delivered.

Early on, my wife and I started pursuing truth in spite of the evidence. We did small groups, outreach, praying for healing, deliverance ministry, emotional healing ministry all with very little evidence of effect…but we kept doing them anyway because God’s word says it should be happening. Through our perseverance He developed and matured us. The book of James talks about this in the first chapter.

After years of trial, things started to happen…very sporadically at first, more consistently as we continued. Each step along the way we could look back and see how God used our previous attempts to grow us to the next thing He was calling us to. We have been doing a combination of all these things for years now and quite frankly, it is a very rare occasion that something "supernatural" doesn’t happen.

I started “Encounter” to have an opportunity to display what I believe a “church service” should look like. People should come expecting to experience God...through worship, hearing God’s word, and ministry time. The supernatural should become natural. When encounters with God become natural…people’s lives are changed. On this page are some of those stories…enjoy, but also seek your encounter!

\o/ Don