The Jubilee Church has a discipling program which includes an Encounter Retreat, held after newly baptized or new members complete the Christianity 101 course. On February 3 & 4 the Jubilee church held this retreat with 23 people, one of the largest groups to participate. On Friday afternoon we left for Tulancingo, a smaller city about 40 minutes from Pachuca, meeting at the Hotel Colonial. The hotel did not have a conference area, but we were blessed, through a contact in the Jubilee church, to have permission to meet in a small Methodist church next door for the Friday worship and the Saturday teaching times.
The focus of this retreat is to help new Christians understand what it really means to be a “new person” in Christ and to completely give over to Christ all aspects of their old life. We included a time at the end to burn a survey they fill out dealing with sins and addictions that they had in their old life to emphasize that these have been completely forgiven by the sacrifice of Christ.
This group of 23 has now started the second level course, Discipleship 201, which is taught on Sunday mornings before the worship celebration at Jubilee. Please keep each of them in your prayers!
