Encounter Service

Encounter service is currently canceled indefinitely.

Letter from our director

September 17, 2026

As you know, we took a hiatus at the beginning of the summer from our weekly Encounter Service, but as our leadership team discussed this further we increasingly questioned if resuming our Encounter was the right thing for our community. As we're in this pruning season, we're trying to discern what God is giving us grace for.

Even as we recognized that He wasn't giving us grace for 22/7 (last week we shared that our hours have changed to 18/7), we also recognized that Encounter Service simply wasn't working. It's been a long time since Encounter has felt powerful and refreshing (bless you if you're the exception!), and for years we have tried so many different variations to breathe some life into it. In the end, it was costing a lot more than it was giving.

The hiatus was necessary, and our community felt the relief. As the relaunch date approached, we felt strongly that trying to forcibly continue something that wasn't working wouldn’t be helpful. It didn't seem right to relaunch only to cancel it again a few weeks later, so we announced to our staff on Tuesday that Encounter Service is canceled for the foreseeable future.

We are still committed to gathering as a community, so there will still be occasional Saturday night events. We still feel called to teach about the return of Jesus and the end times, so we will be looking for the right way to proclaim that message. Encounter leaves a hole in the fabric of our ministry, and a lot of things will need to be figured out – we are working on that.

Thank you for your prayers and words of encouragement. We have been so blessed by the friends appearing out of the woodwork to share how TPR has blessed them and say that they are standing with us. We are certainly in a difficult season, but we feel confident that we are right in the center of God's hand and we trust Him with His plans for this ministry.

Brad Stroup

Director of The Prayer Room

Many years of archived Encounter Service teachings are available on our Resources page.

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