The Encounter
Without prayer, our spirit shrivels, our hope fades, and our joy diminishes. With prayer, our soul quickens, our vision clarifies, and our Christian life is fulfilled. Join the fellowship of believers who use The Encounter to pray the beautiful prayers of the Church every day!
Why The Encounter
In today's culture, it's easy to feel disconnected from what truly matters. We often search for fulfillment in countless places, but nothing fills that void like Christ. And the most profound way to meet Him is through prayer.
Imagine transforming your prayer life and finding a deeper connection with God. Many of us desire this growth, knowing that our faith flourishes through consistent prayer. But where do we start?
Introducing The Encounter: The Common Discipline of the Fellowship of St. Philip the Evangelist. This comprehensive initiative will help you not only grow in your personal daily prayer discipline, but will also connect you to a fellowship of other Christians who are praying with you daily.
With The Encounter, you’ll learn how to pray as both an art and a skill. And since we know the power of relationships, The Encounter is designed to be used not only in your personal prayers, but in tandem with others in your community. This is a truly parish-driven initiative that marries the best of personal prayer with the accountability and bond that can only come in community.
How to Participate
1. Choose how you want to participate in The Encounter. Are you a digital person? Download our free app to your favorite device. Prefer to hold a physical book in your hand? Order a prayer book.
2. Commit to praying the three short prayer sessions each day. Each session is less than ten minutes, many less than five. The impact on your calendar is small, but the benefit of daily prayer is extraordinary.
What’s included in the App:
Engaging daily prayers written from the Orthodox Christian Tradition are available in both text and voice-over presentations.
The hymnology of the Orthodox Church has been orchestrated and recorded to ease us into a calming, focused rhythm of prayer.
A commemorated Saint of the Day is highlighted daily.
A prayer resource center includes a variety of topic-specific prayers that curate our conversations with God by using devotions from the Saints of the Church.
A prayer request option allows us to reach out to others in our Faithtree community to gather together, request specific prayers or jointly give thanks.
And so much more!
What’s included in the book:
Full size, softcover bound leather with elegant gold-stamping
188 pages of comprehensive text that includes:
Daily Prayers
Troparia of Thanksgiving
Prayers for Intercession
Troparia to the Holy Trinity
Hymns to the Mother of God
Prayers of Intercession
Hymns to the Theotokos
The Psalms
Kontakion
The Troparion of the Resurrection
Prayers of Preparation Before Holy Communion
And more!
Testimonials
“Having this app is enriching my prayer life, so I thank all of you at Faithtree. It’s comforting to know that you are helping your Orthodox brothers and sisters with their spiritual welfare by offering this daily prayer app.”
“Faithtree does it again! The Encounter offers something relevant and useful and exactly what we need right now. Thank you! Thank you! Thank You! I am praying the prayers of the Church, in fellowship with others from my parish daily. This is awesome!”