Encounter Christian Church is a non-denomination Christian church. The vision for a new church in SW Cedar Rapids was initiated by the Christian Evangelistic Mission of Iowa. (www.cem-churches.org) They have been starting new churches in Iowa for nearly 50 years.

In the fall of 2004 Encounter started having services in the Roosevelt Middle school. Soon we moved locations to the Clarion Hotel in SW Cedar Rapids. Then we finally landed about a year later in the Wynnsong 12 movie Theater on Edgewood Rd. SW. In the spring of 2009 we were blessed to begin sharing space in the Ellis Park Church of God church building at 2260 Edgewood Rd. NW.

Encounter Christian Church stems from the Restoration Movement that began in the late 1800's as a desire to restore Christianity to the pattern of the New Testament Church. It is our goal to simply use the Bible as our guide and let the Holy Spirit lead us in becoming more like Jesus Christ. We desire to be the Bride of Christ, preparing for the second coming of Jesus.

It is our goal in everything we do at Encounter Christian Church to truly encounter Jesus. We think this is so important we based our name on the idea. We want to encounter His truth in the word as it is preached. We want to encounter His presence in worship as we declare praises to His name. We want to encounter His love as we fellowship and serve Christ together. 

Today we have roughly 100 members with nearly 80 in average weekly attendance at our service. We are mostly younger people but very blessed to have some mature believers in Christ with great wisdom in our midst who may not fit in the "younger" category.