WHAT WE BELIEVE

At Divine Encounter, we base all of our beliefs and teaching on the authority of Scripture. In every way, we strive to maintain Biblical standards of living and leadership. We believe that living life according to God’s Word is the way to an abundant, fulfilling life.

The Bible

The Holy Trinity

SALVATION

We believe that Jesus died on the cross and shed His blood for our sin. We believe that salvation is only found by placing our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus rose from the dead and is coming again. See Romans 5:1; 5:8-9

WATER BAPTISM

We believe that water baptism is a symbol of the cleansing power of the blood of Christ and a testimony to our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. See 1 Peter 3:21.

COMMUNION

We believe in the regularly receiving Communion as an act of remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made for us through dying on the cross. See 1 Corinthians 11:24-25

RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

We believe that every believer should be in a growing relationship with Jesus by obeying God’s Word, yielding to the Holy Spirit and by being conformed to the image of Christ. See Philippians 3:12-13.

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Divine Encounter Fellowship Ministries International

Vision
Encountering God continuously and are changes to effectively encounter men with the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ and reap the end-time harvest.

Our Mission
We seek to initiate, encourage and maximize the experience of a God – encountered people encountering a God -less world with the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ, bringing them into the Body of Christ making disciples of them, and showing them how to make disciples themselves, consequently establishing and perfecting God’s people.

About

Apostle Vernon Duncan is the co-founder and senior pastor of Divine
Encounter Fellowship Ministries International, with branches throughout
Trinidad and Tobago. At present his ministry’s headquarters are at Ragoo Road, D’Abadie.
Together with his brother, now Apostle Vivian Duncan, and Pastor Richard Gonzales he founded the ministry in November 1991.In addition Apostle Vernon Duncan is the covering Apostle for several affiliate and associate Ministries in Grenada, St. Lucia, Guyana, St Vincent and the United States.
Since his call to ministry some eighteen (18) years ago, he has ministered in several countries throughout the Caribbean and around the world. He has a heart for the nations.
Apostle Vernon Duncan is also an Author. His authored works comprise six (6) books namely The Zakar Man: Male Man in Full Flight. Five Laws of Generational Curses: How to break them; Beyond Tehilla: The Worship experience (also Spanish version), The Ultimate Baptism: With the Holy Ghost and Fire; Taking Your Nation Through Personal Evangelization; and A Handbook on Tropical Vegetable Production. He is also a gifted psalmist, having produced four gospel albums so far, his latest album being “Out of the Experience”. Which has been voted among the top five (5) CD’s in the Caribbean courtesy the Caribbean Gospel Music Awards 2003-2004. Also the song “Sailing” from this album has been awarded the top Caribbean Gospel song of the year.
He has been married to Joycelyn for the past 28 years and is the father of three (3) children, Simone, Verneille and Curtis. Joycelyn is now the co-Pastor of Divine Encounter Fellowship. Together they are forging a spiritual legacy for their ministry and their nation as a whole.

JUNIOR CHURCH

Junior Church exists to provide children with the knowledge of the Bible and the skills necessary to develop a lasting relationship with Jesus Christ. Children of Junior Church are equipped to encourage their peers to yearn for encounters with Jesus Christ by their everyday lifestyles in speech and behaviour.

Junior Church occurs every Sunday (except the rst Sunday of the month) at DEFMI from 8:30 am – 10:30 am.

Joel Generation

We seek to raise up young people that are focused, highly moral and ethical in their approach to life, who are so inner motivated with destiny and vision that they are not easily distracted by the cheap o ers of the world around them. We will positively impact our generation with the gospel of Jesus Christ by engaging in prayer and fasting exercises (including all night prayer sessions), outreach campaigns (outdoor and indoor musical, drama, dance and other art forms), Joel Generation camps and retreats, Joel Generation Youth conventions, among other things.

THE Zakar Man Movement

THE Zakar Man Movement is birthed out of the concepts enunciated in the book, e Zakar Man, male man in Full Flight written by Apostle .J. Vernon Duncan. We endeavour to re-de ne, re-establish and bring into practical dimensions the role of the male man as originally intended by God, that is, to be a competent worshipper, a unique husband and responsible father, who loves his home, guides, guards and governs his Family, his Church, his Community and Society at large.

Triumphant Women Ministry

Triumphant Women Ministry is an arm of Divine Encounter Fellowship Ministry International. It’s vision is to empower women for a successful life, equipping them to walk in triumphant, no matter what surrounds them. is can only be done as they are thought to live IN CHRIST. Understanding that people of God have Great in uence and are in this world but not of this world. As such we are unstoppable. Being lead by Christ in a TRIUMPHANT procession. 2 Cor. 2:14

Pastors and Branch Church

Pastors Wilhelm and Yolande Joseph

Divine Encounter Fellowship Ministries International

Pastors Wilhelm and Yolanda Joseph have been serving faithfully as in-house pastors at Ragoo Road D’Abadie since April 2003. Coming out of the social mileu (Pastor Wilhelm a firmer Social Worker) and the field of education Pastor Yolande a former Principal), they bring a wealth of knowledge and understanding in human relations to the ministry. Both of them are great teachers of the word.

Pastor Gabreilla Nicholas Duncan

Divine Encounter Life Center

#2 Penn Terrace Cunupia

Pastor Gabriella Nicholas-Duncan has her heart set on ful lling all of God’s plans and purposes for her life and Life Centre. Her personal mission is to manifest the love of God in such a way that would give the church members and other members of the community a sense of comfort and hope.

Pastor Golda Sutherland-Kalisingh

Divine Encounter Restoration Center

Picton Street Extention, Sangre Grande (in the Coco)

Pastor Sutherland-Kalisingh has a wilful desire to follow her Lord and Saviour and please the heart of God.

Pastor Patrica Palmer

Divine Encounter Harvest Center

Pierre Ville Street, Naparima Mayaro Road

It is through their unwavering faith and trust in Jehovah Jireh, that Pastor Patricia Palmer and the Mayaro Harvest Centre continue to advance, through rough times as well as great and glorious times.

Pastor Allison Modeste

Divine Encounter Regal Glory

161-161A Coffee Street, San Fernando

Pastor Allison Modeste has placed a lot of emphasis on families and several families have joined the church over the period. She sees family as very important to the foundation of the church. “Salvation occurs in family,” she says. Families are very important to her heart.

Divine Encounter Fellowship Longstanding Members In Ministry (20 years and over)

Divine Encounter Fellowship Ministries International (DEFMI) is a fellowship of believers in Christ, whose members all testify of the reality of a “Divine Encounter” as the fundamental to the Christian experience. Our ministry operations officially began on the first Sunday of November 3rd, 1991, with a total attendance of seventy-five people. The congregation grew rapidly, and we soon outgrew the first rented location at the corner of Beckles Lane and Eastern Main Road, Arima. Over 25 years later, our church is now located at its own venue at Ragoo Road, in D’Abadie.

It has been an amazing, and fascinating journey since that first Sunday morning in November, 1991 when we began our ministry at the corner of Eastern Main Road and Beckles Lane, Arima. We started with 75 people that morning after more than fifteen years of being in the music ministry—Apostles 5, the Gospelaires and Trinity Gospel Workshop. Our ministry has been largely apostolic and prophetic in nature bolstered by much prayer and intercession—D-Day Prayer, all night prayer, 3-day solemn assemblies at the end of each quarter, prayer summits (going to the hills and praying over the nation twice per year), Monday intercessory meetings, Command the Morning prayer 5:00 a.m. each morning. Much has been accomplished

In retrospect we count it a privilege to have worked alongside with Jesus to build His Church for the past twenty-five years We have impacted our land greatly through our various prayer initiatives (referred to above). This nation is so much better off because of the effectual fervent prayer of God’s people throughout this land significantly influenced by the spiritual technologies and techniques God has passed on to us. Where do we go from here? We must forge ahead in the way that the Apostle Paul admonishes us: “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, for- getting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.: We must take our cue from the words of the Shunammite woman to her servant: “Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.” Get ready to be the Kingdom Church, a fruit bearing and productive church, and not the traditional church, green and flush-looking leaves but no fruit.

Let us at all times invite and work with the Holy Spirit to activate the Kingdom of God in us so that we bear much fruit and bring deliverance to the nations. Do not be like the fig tree that Jesus cursed because it was not bearing. Invite the Holy Spirit to cause you to bear; do not settle for barrenness or spiritual sterility. Make sure you build with gold, silver or precious metal. Everything else will be burnt up and crumble when our works shall be tested by fire before the judgment seat of Christ. The gates of hell must not prevail against His Church.