Encounter06

Arriving at Encounter06

2006-12-19T12:16:00.000-05:00

When should I arrive?
What is the schedule?
Where is the hotel?

Get all of your questions answered at:
http://encounter06.com/details/

Registration Closed
We've closed online registration for the holidays. But if you'd still like to attend, just show on up in Greensboro and we'll get you in.

Misplaced in a Strange yet Familiar World

2006-12-07T10:44:00.000-05:00

With several student video submissions to choose from, we've picked a winner:

Misplaced
Created by Jon Lancaster and the Cru.Cuts team.

Thanks to everyone who sent in their videos:

Those who Don't go to Winter Conference - Marshall
Pirates - NCSU
Philip Burton - NCSU
Ben squared - Pfeiffer University
Seth Burdette - ECU

Your Thoughts on Encounter: Part 2

2006-11-15T14:41:00.000-05:00

We posted some comments from the male contingent of last year's conference, now it's time to hear from the women.

One of my favorite parts of conference was the New Years Eve celebraion. The whole conference comes together bringing praise and worship to our Father God. Then, before midnight we break into small groups praying for the New Year. Our campus, the lost people, and other prayer requests. We pray through midnight. It was such an amazing and powerful way of bringing in the New Year. After the prayer, we sing more and laugh and cheer and dance! It is the most amazing New Year experience I've ever had! Praise God!
-Erin

Last year at Winter Conf. we were able to go into the community and deliver care packages to people. One care package we delivered was to a foreign exchange student from Africa that had spent the holidays alone. We shared Christ with him and he trusted in him-accepting him as his Lord & Savior. Come to winter conference if you want to see lives changed!
- Casey

How Rhett & Link changed my life:
Last year at winter conference I was challenged to shave my unibrow.
-Kathy

If you went to the conference last year, (no matter what your gender is), leave a comment or email us about your conference experience.

It's like hot chocolate for your ears

2006-11-01T15:38:00.000-05:00

Ok, "hot chocolate for your ears" sounds funny. I was going to say "music to your ears" but that's not a metaphor at all. Then "candy" but that didn't seem to fit.

Nathan Poole is leading our worship times at Encounter this year. His self-described folk/acoustic sound wouldn't be like candy, but something warm, satisfying... more like hot chocolate. Anyway, check him out in the current encountercast or sample his music at myspace.com/natepoole

Dr. Harry Reeder

2006-10-10T16:20:00.000-05:00

Rhett and Link recently had a phone conversation with the keynote speaker for Encounter06, Dr. Harry Reeder. A slice of that conversation is available in the latest Encountercast.

Dr. Reeder is the senior pastor at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL and spoke at our winter conference in Greensboro two years ago. We know him to be a lover of Golf (as was Paul the apostle) and has a good sense of humor - especially about an incident two years ago when Link dressed up as a "hairy reader" to introduce him at conference.

If you're interested in hearing more from Dr. Reeder, follow the links below to some of his recent sermons, conference talks and archived radio broadcasts.

bio and conference talks
Briarwood Pres. resources

Lost... and found?

2006-10-02T11:06:00.000-05:00

We have been putting on this conference for a number of years and I have left books, razors, and cell phone chargers in my room, never to be heard from again. It should come as no surprise that people have left things in meeting rooms as well during conference and these things end up in the official lost and found cardboard box. This box ends up here at E6:HQ.

It pains me to write this, but we must seek out the owner of a jacket that has been sitting here since last year. It is a black leather jacket. Embroidered on the left chest and full across the back in red stitching is the word "HIGHLANDER" in all caps and beneath it is a sword and the phrase "there can be only one." The team members here sometimes wear it when it's cold and we're going to the mexican restaurant and I forgot my jacket that day.

If you lost this jacket at conference last year, our loss can be your gain.. again. However, we will need an in-depth description of the jacket including the size and the total purchase amount (and items purchased) from the receipt left in the pocket from 12/28/05. Also you will need to draw a picture of it by hand, mail us a photo of you wearing the jacket in two different settings (formal and informal), compose a song describing your sorrow and loss (a poem is also acceptable but it must rhyme), and we would really like it if you would register and go to Encounter06 this year, (knowing that your wound will soon be healed).

What you're saying about Encounter06

2006-09-27T08:38:00.000-05:00

Well, I'd say that I'm coming back to Encounter this year because of the community and relevance I felt last year. I was pretty new to the movement when I came, and after experiancing the love and friendship from these people who just wanted to know me for me, I knew I had found a great place to do life. Also, the teaching and seminars were very relevant and thought provoking. I hate going to conferences where it almost seems like a waste of time, but at Encounter, I felt very engaged and I took a lot home from the conference. So come for two reasons: Teaching and Fellowship

Chris Denning
Sophomore - UNCW

If you went to the conference last year, leave a comment or email us about your conference experience. We may use your comment as a blog post here and on the front page of encounter06.com.

Your Thoughts on Encounter

2006-09-21T13:38:00.000-05:00

Check out what some of the guys are saying about encounter06 and why they're going back this year.

Christmas Conference gave me new opportunites to Lead. I was given the chance to lead a discussion group and different prayer groups. I was even able to lead a group on the streets in Greensboro when we went sharing.
Kyle

The biggest thing that impacted me at Winter Conference was the amazing worship. Considering that we had the chance to personally serve the community of Greensboro, listen to awesome speakers, and just hang out and have fun in general, saying that the worship was my favorite aspect of Encounter is not an empty statement. The connection with God through music was electric. It was something your heart could not contain, something that touched you at the core, something that showed you God's beautiful and terrible glory. I'm a very expressive, emotional guy, and for me, woshipping with a thousand other students brought me face to face with the Living God. That was my encounter and it rocked.
Shane

Last year I was so pumped about the conference that I never slept. I showered and would go back down to hang out and fellowship. I also met some people who talked about Summer Projects. That helped persuade me to go and it turned out to be the best summer of my life.
Jon

If you went to the conference last year, (no matter what your gender is), leave a comment or email us about your conference experience.

Early Indicators Point to Best Christmas Ever

2006-09-15T09:30:00.000-05:00

We here at the Encounter06 headquarters (or E6-HQ as I like to call it) are very excited about Christmas break and if the early predictions are at all valid, its going to be "the best Christmas ever." So even though it's only September, we are thinking about your plans for that time.

We're in Talks

2006-09-14T15:06:00.000-05:00

It would be a downright shame for any of you to have to miss Encounter06. We know that sometimes students don't make it to conference because they need to travel to watch their school friends play football. Right now we are in talks with the NCAA and are hoping to reach an agreement that would allow each team in the region playing in bowl games to play during our main meetings right there in the hotel.

Of course we know that it would have to be scaled back a little, perhaps table flick football... or even ping pong.