January 20, 21, and 22, 2025

The Invitation is a 3 day prayer and fasting gathering. You are invited to experience the 500th anniversary of the Anabaptist movement through six primary areas of focus: remembrance, reverence, reflection, repentance, re-baptism, and re-mission. This 500-year mark of the believer’s baptism is a strategic time in church history to look beyond the past. Come join us as we consider “The More” that God desires to release in and through the Anabaptist family…….Amish, Mennonites, Brethren in Christ, Hutterites, Independents, etc!

The (6) areas of focus are below.

Remembrance
This is a time to remember the great outpouring of the Holy Spirit called the Reformation and a time for thanksgiving and praise for all God has done, the huge price that thousands paid for this place of personal relationship with Him and that he has not forgotten us.

Reverence
This is not a time to hold back our worship and with our whole hearts worship and honor Him, realizing that without His presence and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit our world will be in trouble.

Reflection
Reflect on the 500 years of Anabaptism acknowledging the many ways our faith has stayed alive but to also acknowledge ways we may have deviated from His original plan as radical followers of Jesus.

Repentance
With humble hearts acknowledging ways we may have resisted His Holy Spirit and resorted to legalistic forms of godliness that resulted in broken relationships across the church, having a form of Godliness but denying the power for the building of God’s Kingdom.  The result is apathy and a great mission to yet be fulfilled.

Rebaptism
Acknowledging our need for a new baptism, the baptism of Jesus of fire and the Holy Spirit, valuing the baptism of repentance and accepting the empowerment for the manifestation of Jesus in and through our lives.

Re-mission
Recommitting ourselves to following Jesus and the way of His Spirit as we fulfill our part of the great commission and God’s great rescue plan.

Opportunities

Volunteer
We would be honored to work with you if you are interested in serving during the gathering. Please click the button below to let us know when you would like to serve.

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Financial Investment
There is an opportunity to sow into the harvest by empowering this collaborative event! We are believing for provision to cover the costs. Click the button below for online giving, or you can mail a check. All contributions are tax deductible and you will receive a receipt.

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Intercourse, PA 17534

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Speaker Introduction

Dave Hess
Senior pastor of Christ Community Church, Camp Hill, Dave has given his life to see the church express the love of Jesus. His Anabaptist heritage connects him with their early experiences of intimacy with God and the priesthood of all believers

Lester Zimmerman
Founding Pastor of Petra Church and Apostolic leader for Hopewell (Anabaptist) Network , Lester’s experiences of an awakening to personal intimacy with Jesus has ignited a passion and he has given his life to see a church alive and full of the love and light of Jesus that can change the world

Stefan Von Wartburg
Served as Pastor of a State Reformed church in Canton of Berne. He is an advocate for reconciliation especially relating to Anabaptists and has a passion to see the church alive and led by the Spirit of Jesus.

Janet Richards
Part of a church plant in Austin Texas, Janet is a reconciliation leader especially related to the Anabaptist reformation experiences. Author of “Unlocking Our Inheritance”, Janet’s desire is for deep healing and deliverance for the church to be free to express love, joy, peace and the fruit of the Spirit.

Sam Chupp
Amish leader, Sam, cares deeply for his people and desires for the Amish Church to experience the peace and love of Jesus among themselves and through their witness.

Urie Hershberger
Founding Pastor of Freedom Fellowship Church, Ohio, Urie, is a teacher and church leader that desires to see the body of Christ full of the abundant life of Jesus and open to express that love to a dark and troubled world.

Larry Kreider
Founder of DOVE International, DOVE has Anabaptist roots and has grown to over 1100 churches in 27 nations during the past 44 years. As a writer and producer of many church resources, Larry has a deep passion for the world to be awakened to salvation in Christ and the most meaningful and enriching life by being a dedicated disciple of Jesus committed to making disciples.

Luke Weaver
Director of YWAM Lancaster, Luke has a driving passion to see this generation find our place as radical followers of Jesus that feel for a lost world that does not know Him.

Story Tellers

Cordell Huyard
A director of YWAM Lancaster, Cordell carries a deep appreciation for His Anabaptist heritage and has a passion for the world to experience the same reason to follow Jesus as the early Anabaptists that became a fire within them.

Charles Ness
Mennonite pastor and evangelist in Franconia, Charlie carries a message full of the light of Jesus in ways that has impacted the Mennonite church in Eastern PA and an Anabaptist movement of church growth in Mexico.

Lloyd Hoover
Bishop in LMC (Lancaster Mennonite Conference) and participant in Anabaptist reconciliation initiatives, Lloyd has a passion to see the body of Christ healed and free to be an expression of the transforming work of Jesus in a broken world of unrest and hopelessness.

Matt Buckwalter
Superintendent of Linville Hill Christian School, Matt has connected with his Anabaptist roots that give him a cause to invest his life into seeing this generation steward what it means to shine for Jesus in the midst of a disillusioned culture.

Ben Girod
Retired Amish Bishop in Libby, Montana, Ben is a catalyst for reconciliation with the Reformed Church, Jews, and Native Americans with Anabaptists. His deep journey of pain and suffering awakened sensitivity to the person of Jesus and His Spirit that has given him a deep passion to see the church healed, reconciled, and faithful in fulfilling God’s plans in this generation.

John 17:22-24 (NLT)

“I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!”