More Than Classes. Encounters.
You can graduate from most Bible colleges in this country having never been touched by the power of God. You can leave with a stack of theological knowledge, a sharpened pen, and an utterly untested anointing. You can be ordained without being ignited.
You will not graduate from this one without being touched.
Dominion Weekend Gatherings are the reason. They are the spiritual backbone of every degree Judah Bible College offers. They are the in-person, full-weekend, Spirit-filled, apostolic, and prophetic gatherings where the Word that has been studied in the classroom collides with the Spirit who makes it living and active. They are where worship runs longer than the clock. Where teaching carries fire. Where prophetic words go forth and people get marked for life. Where the gifts of the Spirit are not theorized — they are activated.
We do not run these weekends as optional add-ons or spiritual sprinkles on top of an academic program. They are the foundation. They are required.
What Happens When We Gather
A Dominion Weekend is not a conference. It is not a lecture series with a worship set. It is a designed encounter — every session intentionally built on the one before it, every element working together to do something only the Holy Spirit can do. Here is what students step into:
01 Spirit-Led Worship
Worship that does not follow a clock. The kind that creates space for what only the Spirit can do — breakthrough, deliverance, healing, joy that crashes the room. We come ready, but we do not over-script Him. He has never needed our timeline.
02 Apostolic Teaching
Word-anchored, prophetic-edged teaching from JBC leaders and invited voices. This is not academic information transfer. This is fire from heaven dropped on a hungry generation — preached with conviction, grounded in Scripture, designed to mark you.
03 Prophetic Ministry
Personal prophetic confirmations spoken over students. Words of knowledge. Callings confirmed. Names declared over lives that have been wandering. We have watched students walk into a Dominion Weekend uncertain of who they were and walk out knowing.
04 Prayer & Activation
Students do not just learn about the gifts of the Spirit at JBC. They activate in them. Hands are laid on. Authority is released. Faith is put into practice in real time, in the same room, with real people who actually need it. Theory becomes practice before the weekend ends.
05 Impartation
Spiritual deposits passed from generation to generation. What others paid for, you receive. What was earned through decades of faithfulness, you carry forward. “What you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.” — 2 Timothy 2:2 (NLT)
06 Community
Real bread broken at real tables with real people. Some of the most important things that happen at a Dominion Weekend do not happen on the platform — they happen at the table. The relationships built around a meal here will often outlast the lessons learned in a classroom.
Why This Is Not Optional
The Church is not suffering from a shortage of educated Christians. We have plenty of seminary graduates who can recite the order of salvation, dissect a Greek verb, and chart the seven major covenants on a whiteboard. What we are short on are Spirit-filled believers who can actually lay hands on the sick and watch them recover. Who can cast out a demon without flinching. Who can stand in a room of broken people and release the power of heaven into the situation. Who can hear God for themselves and minister out of that overflow.
That gap is not a curriculum problem. It is a room problem. Information alone has never produced a Spirit-empowered believer. Encounter does. And encounter requires being present — actually, physically, fully present — in the room where the Spirit is moving and the saints are pressing in. You cannot stream that into your living room. You cannot download it as a PDF. You cannot make it up with extra reading.
We have built Judah Bible College on the conviction that a real student of the Word must also become a real carrier of the Spirit — and there is only one way that happens.
You have to be in the room.
– Pastor Adam Aziz | Executive Director
*Special considerations may be made for students who live outside of traveling distance to the Chattanooga area.
Who Will Be In The Room With You
Dominion Weekends are intentionally cross-generational and cross-stream. We do not just bring in voices that sound like us. We bring in voices that carry what God wants released into the next generation of His Church.
You will be taught by JBC faculty — men and women who are not just professors but practitioners. People who have planted churches, led ministries, raised disciples, prayed for the sick, cast out demons, and walked the road they are teaching you to walk. They show up as themselves, not as lecturers.
You will be ministered to by our apostolic covering — Dr. Steve and Pastor Reita Ball, founders and lead pastors of Metro Tab Church, and Pastor Adam and Pastor Olivia Aziz, who carry the JBC vision. The weight of decades of Spirit-filled leadership and the gift of the apostolic, prophetic that has marked this house from its founding shows up in every Dominion Weekend.
You will hear from invited guests — apostolic and prophetic voices from across the Body of Christ. Pastors, prophets, teachers, evangelists, missionaries, and marketplace leaders who carry something specific the Lord wants to deposit into our students. We have learned to be careful about who we bring in. The platform is too important to give away cheaply.
And you will be in a room with fellow students — Spirit-hungry believers. Some of the deepest relationships you will form at JBC will be forged in these rooms. The friendships, accountability partners, future ministry teammates, and even future spouses that have already come out of Dominion Weekends are a testimony of their own.
Attendance & Format
The plain facts of how Dominion Weekends work.
Frequency
Two Dominion Weekends per semester (Fall & Spring). Eight per degree phase. Sixteen across the full Bachelor’s program. Dates are published well in advance so students can plan.
Format
Full weekend in person at Metro Tab Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Friday night through Sunday. For students who live too far to travel every term, online attendance is available through the registrar — the room is still required, just connected differently.
Grading
Pass / No Pass. Each Dominion Weekend must be successfully completed to graduate from any JBC degree. Missing a Dominion Weekend without prior approval results in a NO PASS for that gathering and must be made up in a future term.
Full Participation
Worship, teaching, prayer, meals, and impartation segments — all of it counts. Spectators do not pass. Engagement does. You came here to receive what God is doing in this house, not to evaluate it from the back row.
Read the full JBC Attendance Policy and Dominion Weekend Exemption Process for complete requirements.
FAQs
Q&A 1: “I am not used to charismatic environments. Will I feel out of place?”
Maybe at first. Most of our students arrived a little uncertain. Some had never been prayed over in their lives. Some grew up in traditions that taught them the gifts of the Spirit had ceased and were processing real questions when they walked in. By the end of their first weekend, most of them were the ones in the back of the room weeping because they had finally found the room they did not know they had been looking for. You do not have to perform. You just have to come. The Holy Spirit can handle the rest.
Q&A 2: “What if I am uncomfortable with prophetic ministry or laying on of hands?”
We never force anyone into anything. We do invite everyone into everything. There is a difference. If a student is not ready to receive prophetic ministry on their first weekend, they will not be dragged forward. But we will create space for the Holy Spirit to move, and we will not water that space down to make anyone more comfortable. By weekend four or five, we have seen students who came in resistant become some of the most powerfully used in those rooms. Come open. That is all we ask.
Q&A 3: “Can I attend online if I live too far to travel every term?”
Yes. Online attendance arrangements are available through the registrar for students who cannot reasonably travel. The weekend is still required. The room is just connected differently. We have built the format so that online attendance is not a watered-down version — students still participate fully in worship, teaching, and prayer.
Q&A 4: “What if I have a genuine emergency and miss a weekend?”
The JBC Attendance Policy and Dominion Weekend Exemption Process exist exactly for that. Medical emergencies, bereavement, military service, court obligations, and pastor-confirmed ministry assignments are all considered. Submit the exemption form on time, attach documentation, and most legitimate emergencies will be approved. We are not unreasonable. We are intentional.
Q&A 5: “Why is missing a Dominion Weekend treated more strictly than missing a regular class?”
Because regular classes can be made up with reading, papers, and review. Dominion Weekends cannot. The room itself is the curriculum. The presence is the instruction. The Spirit moving on a particular Friday night cannot be rescheduled or recorded into something equivalent. If you miss it, you have to make it up at the next available weekend. That is not strict — that is honest.