Encounter: Healing Prayer Conference

Most of us have been taught plenty about God. Far fewer of us have ever been shown how to actually experience Him. So we go on carrying real fear, real shame, real anger, real loss — while the truths we say we believe stay locked in our heads and never reach the places in our hearts that need healing most.
Encounter is a weekend to close that gap.
Over three days, we'll turn toward four emotions where the enemy loves to work quietly and unchallenged: anxiety, shame, anger, and grief. Our guest speaker, Pastor Rick Reiter, has built his ministry around exactly these places. In each session he'll open Scripture on one of them — and then lead us together in times of focused, guided prayer, using biblical images and strategies, so that what we know becomes something we encounter.
The weekend opens Thursday night with worship and a service of impartation for spiritual gifts, and closes Saturday afternoon with a healing service. Expect dynamic worship, solid teaching, meaningful fellowship, and unhurried space to be in the presence of God alongside others.
Come expecting God to meet you.
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CONFERENCE DETAILS:
Admission:
$25 with optional add-ons for dinner on Friday and lunch on Saturday
The Spiritual Gifts Impartation Service on Thursday and the Healing Service on Saturday are FREE events open to all.
Schedule
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
6:30-8:30 – Spiritual Gifts Impartation Service (free, open to anyone)
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
*5:00 – 6:15 PM — Optional Add-On: Dinner + Q&R with Rick
6:30 PM — Worship
6:50 PM — Opening Talk: Why These Emotions? Hearing God's Voice & the Holy Spirit's Role in Healing
7:45 – 9:00 PM — Anxiety: Teaching + Prayer
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
8:15 AM — Coffee & Fellowship
9:00 AM — Worship
9:30 AM — Shame: Teaching + Prayer
10:45 AM – Break
11:00 AM — Anger: Teaching + Prayer
12:15 PM — Lunch (Optional Add-On: catered lunch)
1:15 PM — Grief: Teaching + Prayer
2:30 – 4:00 PM — Healing Service (free, open to all)
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About Rick Reiter
Rick is the founder of ComeClose Ministries® and lead pastor of Church of the Free in the Washington, DC area. With more than 30 years in pastoral ministry, an M.Div. from Multnomah Biblical Seminary, and a #1 Amazon best-selling book (Before the Stone Rolled), Rick has spent decades watching God bring freedom to people struggling with fear, shame, anger, and emotional exhaustion. Learn more at comecloseministries.org.