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is an intentional monthly training space where you will grow and learn as a disciple of Jesus, experience healing and equipping to share His Kingdom wherever you are...

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Office, school gate, college, gym, shop floor, on a video call or even with a neighbour over the garden fence…
As followers of Jesus we all have places we regularly go, with an opportunity to share His Kingdom.

Invest time over the next year to explore what it means to go into these places knowing that you are...

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With 9 monthly ‘in person’ sessions starting in autumn 2023, Made for Encounter is for followers of Jesus young or old from Glasgow and beyond who are hungry and thirsty to…
• Encounter Jesus
• Experience the Fathers love
• Partner with the Holy Spirit
• Live for Him on your frontline
• Share his Kingdom with others

Hosted by Niall and Pam Fulton from Easterhouse Baptist Church, Glasgow & MFE Team.
Each monthly session will include: Breakfast, Worship, Teaching, Processing Groups, Prayer, Ministry…

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is an intentional monthly training space where you will grow and learn as a disciple of Jesus, experience healing and equipping to share His Kingdom wherever you are.

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General Info

Made for Encounter runs one Saturday a month: 10am-4pm with an additional opening Session on Friday 6th Oct ’23 just in the evening.

Hosted by Niall and Pam Fulton from Easterhouse Baptist Church, Glasgow & the MFE Steering Group.
Each monthly session will include: Breakfast, Worship, Teaching, Processing Groups, Prayer, Ministry…
Based at Easterhouse Baptist Church, conveniently situated 1min from M8 Jcn 10 and 2 mins from the Glasgow Fort.

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Contributors:

Full list of Contributors for 2023-24 To Be Announced...

• Alyn & AJ Jones - Grace Centre, Franklin, US
• Debra Green – ROC
• Lisa Holmes & Ali Laing - BUS National Team
• Ruth Walker & Graeme McDonald - LICC
• Matt & Vicky Dunn - Epicentre Church, Pasadena
• Elaine Duncan - Scottish Bible Society
• Liz Martin - Prayer Ministry/Teaching
• Alan Ross - Gateway Church/Prophetic Ministry
• Sam Hibbard – Sheddocksley Baptist
• Sam Rae – Central Church, Edinburgh

• John & Fiona McDonald - Fathers Love Scotland
• Ilse Ogston - Paisley Elim
• Fiona Stewart - Foolproof Creative
• Clive Corfield - REAP: Above the Noise
• Stephen Hibbard - Hibbards Consultancy
• Graham Black - Spiritual Director, Aberdeen
• Kay Cathcart - CofS Training
• Niall & Pam Fulton – EBC Pastors
• Crystal Cryer - 247 Prayer Scotland
• Mark Greene - LICC
• Plus others tbc

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Typical MFE Topics:
Life too busy

But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest…John 4:35

Whole Life Discipleship
Living Free
Reading the Bible to Encounter Jesus
Dealing with the Issues of our Hearts
Prayer Rhythms & Seasons
Why Am I on the Earth? What is my Purpose & Passion?
I AM Creative
Our Identity & Security in Christ
Discerning & Hearing God’s Voice in a Noisy World
Loving Our Neighbour
Heart of Worship
Exploring being Prophetic in the ordinary, everyday
Building, Contributing & Being in Healthy Community
Cultivating Intimacy with The Trinity
God’s World, Here I Am, Send Me
Relationships – God, Me & Others: Dynamics & Boundaries
Actual Topics for 2023-24 will be given to participants at start of course

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MFE Steering Group

Niall & Pam Fulton
Graeme MacDonald & Ruth Walker
Liz Martin
Sam & Erin Hibbard
Billy & Irene Rilley
Gordon & Marie Smith

Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
Romans 12:1-2

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Donation & Dates 2023-24:

As you can imagine there are many costs creating Made for Encounter (MFE) such as gifts to our speakers, resources, catering etc and we want to limit the size of MFE so that we create the best discipleship environment we can.

The whole course is £180 - which can be contributed either at the start or £20 per month. Please indicate on your Application Form - if this level of donation would be an issue for you as we don't want finance to be an issue.

MFE is a 9 month training space and so unfortunately it is not possible to sign up for just individual sessions.

Fri 6 and Sat 7 Oct
Sat 11 Nov
Sat 2 Dec
Sat 6 Jan
Sat 3 Feb
Sat 2 Mar
Sat 13 Apr
Sat 11 May
Fri 7 and Sat 8 Jun

Saturdays: 10am – 4pm each month
with Breakfast from 9.30am
Friday Evening Only: 7.30pm - 9.30pm

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Recommendations

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. ~ Dallas Willard.

“Encountering God is at the heart of being Christian. Jesus has opened the way to the Father and the Spirit pours his presence into our lives. Made for Encounter equips us to discover and receive what it means to live with a continual openness to God's presence. It's led by people who have learned to walk closely with Jesus and want to help you do the same.”

Rev Martin Hodson
General Director – Baptist Union of Scotland

“Discovering your purpose, identity and passion is so important as you move into the next chapter and next season of life. As I read the syllabus for Made for Encounter, I realised that each module would provide Transforming Encounters- Moments of Meeting- and Movements of Grace as God touches you at a very deep level and prepares you for the extraordinary life He has called you to live....Get ready as He transforms and heals you and sends you out into your communities as carriers of His presence and His healing love."

Andrea Wigglesworth
Vital Connexions

“Many Christian programmes and courses on offer today skirt round our core calling to “make disciples”. Not so with “Made for Encounter.” Niall and Pam have a passion and a track record of growing disciples who in turn make disciples, which is exactly what Scotland needs today more than ever."

Pete Anderson
Lead Pastor – City on a Hill Church, Edinburgh

“What a privilege to enthusiastically endorse Made for Encounter 2022/23. I have known Niall & Pam for many years and have seen them mature in their own discipleship and develop a powerful, Spirit-led ministry, encouraging others in their walk with God.  At Queens Park Baptist, they pioneered ‘equip’, a very successful discipleship training ministry for people of all ages which impacted many people’s lives.  I encourage you to set aside the time for Made for Encounter.  You will not regret it and may well be very changed. Catch Pam & Niall’s passion to see believers living enthusiastically for God on their front lines.”

Rev Edwin Gunn

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Next Steps:

In order to register for Made For Encounter you need to fill out our online Application Form using the button below. You will receive an initial confirmation that we have received your application and we will be in touch as soon as we are able to confirm your place.
You can do Year 2 of MFE without having done Year 1!

Please note: If you have recently finished the 9 month Made For Encounter 22-23: there is a separate application process - please click the orange box link below:

Jesus said: "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10

Applications for Made For Encounter have now closed.

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Good Friday feels like the opposite of good. Good Friday invites us into a place of utter desolation. It reminds us of everything that is not good in the world: gross injustice, abuses of power, scapegoating of the vulnerable and those who are different, betrayal, abandonment, and the horrendous violence that human beings always seem willing to inflict upon one another. All that is ugly, shameful and sinful about humanity is brought into focus on Good Friday, as Jesus is nailed upon a cross. 

And yet, it is Good. Not because of what takes place, but because within the worst of circumstances, Jesus demonstrates God’s self-giving for a broken world with profound and ultimate goodness. Jesus demonstrates the cost of goodness in the world – through his self-sacrifice to pay the price of all sin – and does not shrink from it, despite the tears and fears of Gethsemane. 

“From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” — Matthew 27:45-46

Repost from @justinwelby
Good Friday feels like the opposite of good. Good Friday invites us into a place of utter desolation. It reminds us of everything that is not good in the world: gross injustice, abuses of power, scapegoating of the vulnerable and those who are different, betrayal, abandonment, and the horrendous violence that human beings always seem willing to inflict upon one another. All that is ugly, shameful and sinful about humanity is brought into focus on Good Friday, as Jesus is nailed upon a cross.

And yet, it is Good. Not because of what takes place, but because within the worst of circumstances, Jesus demonstrates God’s self-giving for a broken world with profound and ultimate goodness. Jesus demonstrates the cost of goodness in the world – through his self-sacrifice to pay the price of all sin – and does not shrink from it, despite the tears and fears of Gethsemane.

“From noon on, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And about three o’clock Jesus cried with a loud voice, ‘Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?’ that is, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’” — Matthew 27:45-46

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God invites us to follow Him and live out our faith in everything we do. It means we represent Him in our daily life. If we don’t get this, we might miss out on the fullness of the life God wants for us.

Check out our resources on Work and Calling to learn more. Visit the link in our bio.

#EHDiscipleship #workandcalling

Repost from @ehdiscipleship
God invites us to follow Him and live out our faith in everything we do. It means we represent Him in our daily life. If we don’t get this, we might miss out on the fullness of the life God wants for us.

Check out our resources on Work and Calling to learn more. Visit the link in our bio.

#EHDiscipleship #workandcalling

Let’s be praying for each other today as the Church scattered all over….🙏🏾❤️🙏🏻
Making a Difference - Everyone. Everyday. Everywhere. 
May we be: Clear minded. Compassionate
Full of Faith. Bold. Credible.
Why don’t you drop someone a message to let them know you are praying for them?
#OnourFrontlines
#WholeLifeDiscipleship

Let’s be praying for each other today as the Church scattered all over….🙏🏾❤️🙏🏻
Making a Difference – Everyone. Everyday. Everywhere.
May we be: Clear minded. Compassionate
Full of Faith. Bold. Credible.
Why don’t you drop someone a message to let them know you are praying for them?
#OnourFrontlines
#WholeLifeDiscipleship

Embracing Change….
Take time this month to process with God what was in your notes from Ilse’s session @madeforencounter module 6.

Embracing Change….
Take time this month to process with God what was in your notes from Ilse’s session @madeforencounter module 6.

Module 6 already! 😆
@ilseogston 
@markgreeneldn 
Saturday. ✔️
Breakfast 9.30am. ✔️
Can’t wait! 😁
#MadeforEncounterModule6

Module 6 already! 😆
@ilseogston
@markgreeneldn
Saturday. ✔️
Breakfast 9.30am. ✔️
Can’t wait! 😁
#MadeforEncounterModule6

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Lent is a journey, yet it is also about taking time not to move. We slow down, take time to examine where we are, who we are, and the world that surrounds us, and bring this awareness into the presence of the God who journeys, and stops, with us. 
 
Slowing down, stopping, can be uncomfortable. It is often easier to keep moving, to avoid time to think, to avoid facing the reality of our lives and our world. Stopping means turning inside, and turning upwards, making space for ourselves to meet with God, and to take stock. 
 
Slowing down helps us make room to notice where God is alongside us: in people, in situations, in what we read or listen to; to make room to notice those who need our prayers, and our actions, far and near. 

It can help us to notice when our rushing steps have taken us to the wrong places, and to make space to discern how to straighten our paths, in the presence and friendship of the Lord. 

“You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.” — Psalm 51.6

Repost from @justinwelby
Lent is a journey, yet it is also about taking time not to move. We slow down, take time to examine where we are, who we are, and the world that surrounds us, and bring this awareness into the presence of the God who journeys, and stops, with us.

Slowing down, stopping, can be uncomfortable. It is often easier to keep moving, to avoid time to think, to avoid facing the reality of our lives and our world. Stopping means turning inside, and turning upwards, making space for ourselves to meet with God, and to take stock.

Slowing down helps us make room to notice where God is alongside us: in people, in situations, in what we read or listen to; to make room to notice those who need our prayers, and our actions, far and near.

It can help us to notice when our rushing steps have taken us to the wrong places, and to make space to discern how to straighten our paths, in the presence and friendship of the Lord.

“You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.” — Psalm 51.6