Gerry Martins is the Director of the Encounter School of Ministry – Augusta campus. Gerry is a full-time lay Catholic missionary with Family Missions Company, a Louisiana based apostolate. Gerry, his wife Mel and their five children currently live and serve in Augusta in the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia alongside the Alleluia Community. Originally born, raised and living in Asia for most of his life – Gerry, a professional photographer and Mel, a pre-primary educator had a dramatic ‘encounter’ with the LORD at a retreat in the mountains and they felt called to drop everything and follow HIM. Since then, the LORD has led them into a place of deeper intimacy and transformation, a life that is replete with miracles  and adventure, and with a mission to empower others in the Holy Spirit!

Mary Kate McAdams is a Nurse Practitioner in Family Medicine and a Woman’s Coordinator in the Alleluia Community. She has been a lifetime, full covenant member of the Alleluia community since 2012, and she attends St. Joseph Catholic Church in Augusta, GA. She serves as a core-team and teaching member of Encounter Augusta.

Fr. John Johnson is a full covenant member of Alleluia Community.  He was ordained to the Priesthood in 2007 for the Diocese of Savannah, GA. Fr. Johnson holds a BA degree in Humanities and Catholic Culture from Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH.  He likewise holds M.Div. and MA degrees in Moral Theology from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary.  In 2009, Fr. Johnson began studies at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in the Sacred Licentiate (STL) program and completed his work in 2012.  His areas of research included Christian Anthropology, bioethics, and the moral implications of modern technology. He currently serves as the Pastor and University Chaplain of St. Matthew Catholic Church and Newman Center in Statesboro, GA, Associate Vocation Director for the Diocese of Savannah, and the diocesan chaplain to the CMA guild in the Diocese of Savannah, GA.

David Rodriguez is a man after God’s heart and has a passion to see His church flourish with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. With 15 years of experience in ministry, David has facilitated bilingual lectures and preaching at retreats, youth groups, young adult server formation trainings, charismatic prayer groups and other events in the areas of chastity, marriage, healing and forgiveness, Catholic teaching, and scripture amongst other topics to hundreds of youth, young adults, and families. David has been a guest speaker at multiple events throughout the Northeast as well as in the Dominican Republic (his family’s country of origin). He has ministered with the Hispanic Catholic Charismatic Center in the Bronx New York, Luz de Cristo prayer group in New Jersey, and with Corazón Puro (a chastity ministry under the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal). David was blessed to receive formation under the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in the areas of theology of the body, chastity and human formation, as well as scripture and preaching training from Pablo Ballona Casa Del Padre ministry and other Hispanic Catholic Charismatic leaders. A dedicated husband and father, he lives with his wife Diana and their four children in Georgia since 2013.