Encounter School of Ministry, DC Campus:

Why enroll in the Encounter School, DC Campus? If you’re even on this page, you already see within you a hunger for more… a desire to see God work more profoundly in your own heart and through you to bless those around you. The Encounter School is all about the more. It is about helping you enter into a supernatural lifestyle. A lifestyle where faith in God’s goodness and his desire to act in our lives dispels our doubts and moves us to step out in love to be used as his instruments. It’s about understanding our identity in Him and the intimacy we can have with Him, where we can hear his voice, just as he promised.

The Early Church encountered the love and power of God in an experiential way that transformed their thinking, increased their faith, healed their hearts, and empowered them to be light to the world around them through demonstrations of God’s love and power!

Those days are not over!

God has more in store for you! Priests, religious, and lay people alike are experiencing a greater awakening in their faith, a new joy and freedom, and a new sense of God at work in their hearts as well as through their words and actions. What does God have in store for you? Come and see!

To learn more, please go to:
https://encounterschool.org/

To enroll, please go to:
https://dashboard.encounterschool.org/esm-dashboard-registration/

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When registering, be sure to select the onsite campus application (not online) and choose the DC Campus. If you have questions about this, please contact us.

Endorsements

Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB

The Encounter School is a powerful program of transformation that will help you become the missionary disciple and saint that God made you to be. The power of the Holy Spirit will become more evident in your daily life and the fruits of the Holy Spirit, including love, joy, and peace, will start to pervade everything you do. If you’re on the fence, I urge you to try it. You won’t regret it. God is not outdone in generosity!

After meeting the leaders and teachers in Encounter DC, I can attest to their excellence. Also, the facilities and community in DC provide an experience for the in-person school that significantly exceeds the school online.

Fr. Diogo Escudero, OFM Cap

As a graduate of Encounter DC, I really encourage each one of you to make the commitment to participate in person if you have the chance. It was one of the most transformative experiences of my life, and I am still amazed at the fruits I am seeing in my priestly ministry. One of my parishioners told me “Father, I know it is not you, but ever since you set foot in this place, we are seeing things we have never seen before.” And I responded to him “me neither!!”

The Encounter School of Ministry on-line campus is also an option too and I am personally going to be involved in setting up the online campus for Brazil. The Lord is doing awesome things through this means of communication…I really believe, however, that when there is the possibility of participating in person, our incarnate call to participation, that is always the best way to receive formation. There’s just something about physically being part of a community, learning together, and having the opportunity to participate in the activations and exercises in person that was so transformative for me.”

Testimonies

Does God want to be intimate with you? Yes! Does he want to work through you? Yes! Just listen to what some of our students have said about their experience. Don’t hesitate… plan your summer around this event and register now!

Here I was thinking “I’m so inadequate,” and He’s like, “it’s not about you, it’s about me in you.” That’s what the Intensive was about,… discovering the very truth of Christ in us, and uncovering that great, beautiful gem that is ever more beautiful. The layers just keep getting pulled back and back and back, and with each layer comes a new level of freedom.

I’ve been seeing the transformation in my own heart. Identity was very powerful… just resting in the truth that it’s not about what you do, but it’s about who you are in God’s eyes, in the Father’s eyes. For myself, I can think, “well I know that, I’ve gone through a lot of experiences of that,” but over the process of this first year and growing in the prophetic gifts, and then the healing gifts, and inner healing… the Lord is removing all those hidden layers of “it’s not about what you do Tyler, it’s about who you are… I love you right now, I love you so much.”

This whole ministry has helped me develop a more personal relationship with the Father, and connecting with Jesus’ heart. So, I see myself and my identity in a new way and have learned a lot about the word joy and also confidence and stepping out in faith. If it wasn’t for Encounter, I don’t think I would have the courage to answer the call to go to Africa and get involved with jail ministry. Every time I come through these doors, there just this peace… there’s always something that changes in my heart and I’m always better off than when I came in.

“I never thought of myself as God’s instrument for healing… we had the opportunity to learn a prayer model and to pray for sick members of the group. There was a particular lady who had pains in her hips and in her foot… by the time we were done praying for her, her pain had significantly lessened and she was able to jump up and down!“

“… and I just experienced the unfathomable mercy and love of God… and that is what Encounter is empowering us to share with the world. My faith used to be silent. I thought God was someone we prayed to and he listened to us but it was very still. Encounter taught me that that is not true, that God is active, and he wants to heal people right here and right now. I’ve prayed with people for inner healing and physical healing and I’ve seen it happen right before me. A gentleman we prayed with, his knees were healed… my knees have been healed from an injury… it has just changed my entire life!

I did come [to the Summer Intensive], I brought some Capuchin brothers and a priest friend of mine. For all of us, and particularly for myself, it was a very powerful experience. It was an experience of affirmation and confirmation of what the Lord is doing in my life. I quickly saw that what Encounter had to offer, God had put in my heart. I wanted to grow more in my identity as a son to the Father, in the Lord Jesus, by the action, by the working by the power of the Holy Spirit.

While I have been greatly blessed by all the teachings, the session on identity and authority were transformational. I have always sought out whatever is “true” and “authentic.” Now I could embrace the truth of who I am as daughter of the Most High and respond to the Word of God to evangelize.

The Encounter School of Ministry challenged me to grow in faith; especially in using the spiritual gifts of prophesy and praying for physical and emotional healing. I have been a Christian for 40+ years and this is the first time I learned how to pray with someone with expectant faith for healing.

This has been a time of formation and refreshment, and anchor and safe harbor to pray and learn. I grew in knowledge and understanding, much I have been able to incorporate in my personal ministry and marriage. This blew new breath and life into my ministry service in CFC.

I have changed! I now offer to pray with people right away and with greater expectation that the Lord will act. I listen more for the Holy Spirit and try to obey or communicate what I hear. I have really enjoyed coming to know the people! Still need to grow in confidence that the Lord can use me for miracles/healing/etc. and grow in confidence that I hear the Lord clearly.

I was able to grow in my relationship with God. I now am clear on my identity in Christ and the knowledge of the great power of the Holy Spirit.

The Lord has used Encounter School, both the teachings and the people of deep faith in this “community” to transform my life over these past two years. I have been able to experience the Lord healing me physically, emotionally and spiritually through praying with others, using the Encounter prayer models and have been able to grow in using the spiritual gifts. The leaders have been a great blessing, with their example and witness of their faith and humility, and also by the sacrifices of their time and prayers for all of us.

The door was opened to learn more about what the Holy Spirit wants to do through us. He wants to partner with us to uncover lies of the evil one and help people realize their true identity as beloved children of our All-Powerful God who wants to restore truths, set captives free, and heal a hurting world. It was important to me that the teachings were scripturally-based and true to the Magisterium.

The teachings have been very informative. The notes on how to pray for people and those that need Inner Healing were very good. I loved the talk on Angels and having a spirit of Joy. We can hear from God and tell others where to find Life.

I’m learning to take risk, to avoid performance mentality, the power of prophecy, and that being human and making mistakes is OK. I learned that even if people don’t get healed we should make sure they receive the love of Jesus.

The whole experience was tremendous. Excellent teachers and teaching. Personally, I received a huge inner healing that keeps unfolding. I have also found the Inner Healing tool tremendously helpful when praying with others.

I loved the opportunity to practice skills, encouragement from others, being challenged to get out of my comfort zone, and the praise and worship.

I loved the activations, especially serving as prayer teams at Encounter. It helped me take a leap of faith and see how God was blessing others through me.