Vision

For Encounter to be a church that is Authentic, Growing, and Engaged.

• We are a church that is Authentic Relationally (living in community with the freedom and forgiveness of Christ)
• We are a church that is Growing Spiritually (continually learning the word of God and walking in it)
• We are a church that is Engaged Missionally (being an agent of change in the church, community, and world)

Matthew 22:36-40 — “You shall love the Lord your God will all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind…And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Mission

Doing whatever it takes for people to be radically transformed by Christ.

II Corinthians 5:17 — “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”

Purpose

For Greenville, South Carolina to be turned upside down by the teachings of Jesus.

Acts 17:6 — These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also.”