Encounter Youth

This week Jake shares on discerning God's voice and not believing everything you hear on the internet or from a "Christian" teacher. He also shares about what it means for God to be love and about how knowing God's love sets us free from fear, worry, and anxiety! You might need to share this one with a friend!

This week Jake shares about the power of the love of God when we really receive it by REVELATION instead of just information. He shares about how the revelation of Jesus is the beginning of revival and entices us to go after revelation in God's Word.

This week Jake shares out of 1 John 2. We talk about how Jesus is our advocate before the Father and how he paid for our sins. We also talk about how to be free from loving the things of the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (and what all of those things mean).

This week we start a series on the book of 1 John! Jake shares about the power of really knowing Jesus as the one who is the creator and the source of all things, the source of all spirual power and meaning, the one who is the same as God the Father.

This week Jake shares about Jesus' amazing parable to the Good Samaritan. Jesus challenges us in this story to realize what really matters to God in a person who loves others. You can look perfect on the outside, but often is the broken people we least expect who are willing to stop and give themselves away for others like Jesus did for us.

Jonathan shares his testimony about coming out of agnosticism through an Encounter with God and Gavin shares about how he overcame depression and challenging years in middle school through the hope he has in Jesus.

Did you know that Jesus gives us really clear instructions on how to handle it if someone hurts us, and its nothing like the advice we usually hear. This week we dive straight into the Word and what it says about how to love our enemies and how not to retaliate when we want to. This one hit hard!

This week Sarah shares her own powerful story of how she learned forgiveness from Jesus. She also shares some powerful thoughts on what forgiveness really looks like.

This week Noah talks about belonging through the story of David. David was an outcast in his family and on the battlefield, and no one suspected him to be a hero. But he walked in victory because he knews that he belongs wherever God is. And God is everywhere. And the same thing is true of you! You don't have to walk in fear because God is always with you.

This week Jake share about unforgiveness in the church and how it can be one of the main things that keeps it from being a place to belong. We also talk through how to forgive and what forgiveness really means and at the end have a time of inviting the Holy Spirit to show you how you need to forgive. This one is intense but good!

This week Jake shares about making the church and our youth group a place where everyone is welcome and everyone can belong. He shares about how guys and girls both struggle with being selfish and excluding others through gossip, competition, and excluding people, and how Jesus was the exact opposite. Jesus was always welcoming the people that no one else would welcome.

Check out this great message from Sarah Stoltzfus where she shares her journey of learning to fully understand the Gospel. She shares about different times in her life where God took her into a deeper understanding of the Gospel, and shares some powerful and helpful insights on what Jesus' death and resurrection really means for us.

This message by Bradley from YWAM Lancaster has some fire and passion on it! God is doing something in the youth of our region and he has so much available to us. Sometimes we just go for the little crumbs of what God has for us when we leave Jesus on the fringes of our lives. But when we fully surrender to Jesus we receive the whole loaf of what He has for us! Catch a little bonus testimony from...

This week Jake shares a sobering message about returning to our first love again. About how intensely Jesus desires us and wants us to desire Him back. he's not looking for us to live the Christian life just out of duty. He's looking for people who are in love with Him, and we talk about what brings us back to that place is remembering and experiencing how deep God's love for us really is.

This is the first message from National Day of Prayer 2022 where Jake shared about how God is looking for partners to stand in the gap for Gen Z. He shares about how Gen Z is like the Rich Young Ruler, and their biggest struggle is surrendering everything to God. Then he shares about how God has moved in the past to bring generations back to him through the power of the Spirit.

This is a recording of the powerful prayer time that we had where students declared LIFE over Gen Z and prayed for revival in their generation during National Day of Prayer 2022. If you need your heart for intercession stirred up, listen to this!

This is the second message delivered at National Day of Prayer 2022 where Joel Bomberger, our guest speaker, delivered a powerful message full of stories about revival in Lancaster and ending with a call to surrender everything to Jesus and be filled with His Holy Spirit.

Many of you know him as Mr. Brown, but this week, Todd Brown shares on our identity as chosen and adopted sons and daughters of God. He shares out of his own experience of adopting and the power of the moment when we stop pretending and truly identify as sons and daughters of God.

This week Jake shares out of Revelation 3 where Jesus tells us that he never wants our passion for him to be lukewarm, just ok, satisfied with how things are. This can be a really dangerous place to be where we don't actually want any more of Jesus! Just going to church doesn't make you a believer in Jesus any more than going to a firehall makes you a firefighter.

This week Jake talks about the power of hope, how hope is like light in the dark times of life. How when you loose hope for your future or your self you often give up and give in to evil. But Jesus gives us hope through His resurrection and His promises to us that He has a good plan for our lives and a bright future in this life and after He returns to make the whole world right again.

This week Jake shares about our new series on identity and who God says we are in His Word. This Wednesday we go after anxiety, believing that when we believe the truth that God is our Father and he cares for the little details of our lives, we are set free from worry, fear, and an orphan heart. At the end, we take some time to soak in some verses that speak to us about God's care for us.

This week Jake talked about Homosexuality, one of the most intense subjects being talked about in our culture right now. We talk about the tough questions: Are people born Gay? Do people choose to be gay? And Jake talks about how these aren't necessarily the right questions to be asking. We talk about how everyone has been de-formed and corrupted in their sexual desires (gay and straight alike) an...

This week Jake dives into the different instructions the Bible gives to men and women on how to live their lives and what their roles are in the family and in the church. We read some of these Scriptures, then we dive into Proverbs 31 (the awesome wife passage) and Job 29 (Job when he used to be an awesome man passage). Jake shares on how both of these passages share the same qualities men and wom...

This week Jake talks about how modesty (in what you wear) and purity (in what you do) isn't just about rules and shame. Its about knowing what you are worth! its about knowing that you are treasure, and you won't give yourself away cheaply. We also talk about how guys and girls can be immodest and lead people on in different ways, and how God's desire is for us to live for him rather than living t...

This is one of the best weeks of our dating series! Where we talk about why boundaries are so important in a dating relationship! And not just physical boundaries either. Even if you've heard this message before, you should check this one out, since we talk about everything from why keeping our desires in check, not getting too intimate, and even boundaries about sexual intimacy at the end (Parent...