Fresh Encounter: God's Pattern for Revival

In March 2004, Grace Church had the honor of hosting the Baptist Convention of Iowa's Fresh Encounter Spring Conference. The guest speakers for this event were Dr. Henry Blackaby and Dr. Greg Frizzell. Both men provided in-depth, biblical teaching on the topics of personal revival, prayer, holiness, and corporate revival.

Below is the audio from each of the general sessions plus the two morning worship services at Grace Church on March 28, 2004.

About the Speakers

Dr. Henry T. Blackaby is president of Blackaby Ministries International, an organization he founded in order to help people experience God.

Born in British Columbia, Dr. Blackaby has devoted his lifetime to ministry. He has served as a music director, education director, and pastor in churches in California and Canada, as well as president of Canadian Baptist Theological College for seven years and president of the Canadian Southern Baptist Conference. He has provided leadership to thousands of pastors and laymen across North America and has spoken to missionaries and other groups in over ninety countries of the world.

Dr. Blackaby studied English and history at the University of British Columbia as an undergraduate and earned his B.D. and Th.M. from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees.

In 1970, Dr. Blackaby followed God’s call to pastor a tiny church in Saskatoon, Canada. Not only did Faith Baptist Church grow to many times its original membership, but it led to the founding of thirty-eight new churches and became a center for pastoral training.

Dr. Blackaby went on to serve on staff at the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Through the Home Mission Board, he led revival and spiritual awakening in the life of the convention. He also served as special assistant to the presidents of the International Mission Board and LifeWay Christian Resources. Although he is now officially retired, Dr. Blackaby continues to provide consultative leadership in the life of the Christian community.

Dr. Blackaby has published an array of spiritually influential messages in his lifetime, most notably Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God (1990), which has sold 4 million copies and has been translated into over 45 languages. His books, Experiencing God Together and Experiencing God Day by Day Devotional, both won the Gold Medallion Award.

Dr. Blackaby lives with his wife, Marilynn, in Rex, Georgia. He has five children (Richard, Tom, Melvin, Norman, and Carrie), all of whom are serving in Christian ministry, and fourteen grandchildren. His long-range goal is to encourage revival and spiritual awakening in the United States, Canada, and across the world through speaking, praying, enlisting, writing and mentoring. His hobbies are reading and traveling.

Dr. Gregory Frizzell--For sixteen years, Dr. Frizzell pastored the Georgian Hills Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where he has also served for ten years as Director of Prayer and Spiritual Awakening for the Shelby Baptist Association.

He has written comprehensive statewide prayer strategies that are now embraced by most State Conventions. He is the author of twelve books on united prayer, spiritual awakening and prayer evangelism. Dr. Frizzell conducts numerous national prayer conferences and is a frequent conference leader at Glorieta and Ridgecrest. In addition, he conducts a multi-state radio program on prayer and spiritual awakening.

His wife Sandy is a treasured prayer partner and an invaluable aid to his ministry.

Fresh Encounter: God's Pattern for Revival

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Related Links:

• Blackaby Ministries International
• Gregory Frizzell Prayer & Renewal Ministries