Becoming Architects and Agents of Encounter

Our Presenter:  Frank Mercadante

October 3, 2019

10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Assembly Hall – Diocese of Charleston

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The world has changed…but has your ministry with young people?

In order to form teenage missionary disciples, we must become “architects and agents of encounter.”  Most young people today are indigenous to a postmodern epistemology and come to know truth more through experience than cognitive reasoning.  Transitioning from a belief-oriented approach to an encounter focused approach is essential to reaching young people.  For most teens, the entrance ramp to a personal faith is a relational encounter with God. This seminar shows us how to help facilitate both initial and ongoing encounters with God.

You’ll Discover

• • The practical tools for
    helping facilitate both initial
    and ongoing encounters
    with God.
  • How accompaniment is
    the essential language of
    encounter and the practical
    ways we can walk with young people.
  • How to help young people
    discover and engage with
    the many ways God is
    encountering them.
  • How Jesus encountered
    others and the resulting
    practical steps for interpersonal
    evangelization of
    young people.