SeptEMBER 2025 – June 2026

Due to low enrollment, we have decided to pause our Immerse school for the 2024-2025 scHOOL YEAR. Please check back for updates for next year!

Did you know that the most powerful way to learn another culture is to immerse yourself in that culture? In fact, world travelers agree it is the only way to capture an AUTHENTIC perspective and a deeper understanding of an unfamiliar place.

Immerse School of Transformation is your opportunity to take a journey and be immersed in the culture of Heaven. In Christ, you are now a traveler. The world is no longer your home, Heaven is! Jesus said we must take the Kingdom of Heaven by force. Do you know who God really is? Do you know who you really are or what you are designed to do? It’s time to be IMMERSED!

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We will journey together to three different places. We will stay in romance and learn about the love affair between Jesus and His Bride...that’s YOU! Then we will go to grace and discover how to live empowered by the divine pleasure of God! Our last stop will be design, where we will feast on the morsels of why you were born and God’s dreams and desires for your life!

Itinerary

  • During the first 10-week trimester, we take a deep dive into the book Song of Songs, studying verse by verse to unpack the depths of the love of Jesus for His Bride. We also require students to read The Sacred Journey by Dr. Brian Simmons, the lead translator of The Passion Translation.

    During our Tuesday Encounter Nights, we invite Bethesda Pastors and Special Guest Speakers to teach on the following topics:

    • The Holy Spirit

    • How to Prophesy

    • How to Pray for People

    • Healing

    • Inner Healing

    • The Power of Agreement

    • And more!

    We end the trimester with a gathering celebration and a special gift for each student.

  • During the second 10-week trimester, we take a deep dive into the book of Romans to unwrap the gift and goodness of the Father's grace through the finished work of Jesus. We also require students to read Grace: The Power of the Gospel by Andrew Wommack, founder of Charis Bible College.

    During our Tuesday Encounter Nights, we invite Bethesda Pastors and Special Guest Speakers to teach on the following topics:

    • The Grace of the Father

    • Grace is a Person

    • Being in Christ

    • Revival History

    • And more!

    We end the trimester with a gathering celebration and a special gift for each student.

  • During the third 10-week trimester, we take a deep dive into the book of Ephesians to unveil the purpose and call the Holy Spirit has over your life as a son and daughter of God. We also require students to read Living Fearless by Jamie Winship, co-founder of Identity Exchange.

    During our Tuesday Encounter Nights, we invite Bethesda Pastors and Special Guest Speakers to teach on the following topics:

    • Women in Ministry

    • Finding Your Destiny & Calling

    • How to Preach a Sermon

    • And more!

    We end the final trimester with a gathering celebration and a special gift for each student.

Schedule

Encounter Nights:

  • Encountering God with worship & communion. Encountering God in the Word and through activations.

  • Every Wednesday evening from 630pm - 930pm

Study & Connection Nights:

  • Verse by verse, in depth Bible teaching on the book of the trimester, followed by breaking out into designated Revival Groups.

  • Every Thursday evening from 630pm - 930pm

Sunday Activation & Service:

  • We require students to activate what God is releasing in their life by serving the Body of Christ and getting plugged into a ministry at the church.

  • Every Sunday from 10am - 12pm

Tuition Information

Full tuition cost for all 3 trimesters is $1,500.

If applicants pay in full before 1st trimester, they will receive a discount.

Immerse offers a flexible pay-per-trimester payment plan, allowing applicants to pay a third of the tuition fee and is due at the start of each trimester.

All applicants are required to pay a non-refundable $25.00 registration fee that will be applied towards their total tuition payment. Applicants will select their payment option when registering.

FAQs

  • The Immerse class is broken into smaller Revival Groups, designed for deeper connection and community within student and leader relationships. Each of our Revival Group Pastors (RGP) operates in a unique gifts and callings and they are entrusted with the freedom to use their Revival Group time for creative activations and discussions each Wednesday night. The goal of these groups is to grow even deeper with the family style community God has placed you in on this journey of transformation and growth. Though vulnerability can feel risky at times, we have seen God move in life-changing ways as students learn to grow and heal within safe and healthy community.

    At the beginning of the school year, our RGPs ask Holy Spirit which group each student should be a part of. This Revival Group assignment remains the same throughout the school year.

  • Yes, each trimester has weekly required reading and a short worksheet to help draw out what God is teaching you as we work our way through the books of the Bible.

  • We believe there is a unique gift of transformation that happens when you serve the Body of Christ. We have seen countless testimonies of gifts, passions, and healings being unlocked as students learn how to partner with the Holy Spirit in love and honor through service to others.

  • If students are already actively serving in a ministry, then we allow that to meet the service requirement. If students are not already plugged in, then we ask them to submit their top three choices of Bethesda ministries in the most need of volunteers. Our Immerse administration team will then assign students accordingly. We try our best to place students in a ministry they will thrive in; however, the first choice is not always selected.

Meet the Teachers

  • Tisha Straup

    CO-FOUNDER

  • Ben Straup

    CO-FOUNDER

  • Anthony Toussaint

    REVIVAL HISTORY

  • Kyle Kienitz

    THEOLOGY

  • Andrea Jones

    INNER HEALING

  • Bree Keel

    KEYS OF AGREEMENT

  • Jeff Harder

    CHAPTER STUDIES

  • Terri Harder

    CHAPTER STUDIES

  • Donnie Shrode

    CHAPTER STUDIES

  • John Henares

    HOW TO PROPHESY

Testimonies

  • Bob

    CLASS OF 2021

    “There’s a point in the Song of Songs where I realized that God’s love is off the grid of my normal grid of thinking of how good He is. After that trimester, I started to realize this book of love in the middle of the Bible is actually the heart of the Bible. So now I have a base of why all the history that has happened it’s because of God’s heart. I started reading the Bible through a lens of love, every single verse, every single chapter, everything.”

  • Fa'Lisha

    CLASS OF 2022

    “Starting with romance set me up for the trajectory of the year because I needed to know how loved I was by Him. To love others is easy; to love myself was what I couldn’t do. I needed to know I was not an accumulation of every mistake, every failure, or even just the criticisms that I’d heard from the people around me. I was ready for Him to tell me how disappointing I was, or how I didn’t execute well. So realizing that I was not only loved by God, but that I am His Beloved and when He thinks of me, He’s happy…that was mind-blowing.”

  • Michelle

    CLASS OF 2022

    “When I first came to Immerse, I actually has a lot of offense towards church and spiritual leaders in my life. In that first trimester, the Lord was slowly taking away those offenses, addressing them, and loving me in them. It was a journey of coming to a place of surrendering, forgiving those people, and forgiving myself that I experienced healing within community. I now have come to a place where I realize my safety isn’t even about what’s happening on the outside or what my circumstances are, but my safety is really rooted in who He is in my heart and in my mind. It’s allowed me to open up and be in relationship in a totally different way.”

  • Rhoda

    CLASS OF 2022

    “There’s been great sorrow in my life this year, and as I have been going through Immerse and learning that rejection is a disempowering lie. I have learned so much about who I am and the royalty that I carry being the bride of Christ and being Papa’s daughter. I have been able to walk through sorrow and continue to be blessed in knowing I’m powerful, that I’m who God says I am. My design is who He says I am. I’m walking through this not just myself, but with other people surrounding me, too. That’s been a huge part of it, because God has given me beauty for ashes and the oil of joy for mourning and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness that I had.”

  • Jueria

    CLASS OF 2022

    “I came from a background of not being loved at all, and the only love I’ve ever known is Jesus’ love. I know a pure love; a love not tainted or manipulated or entangled with things. The more I surrendered into His love and allowing that love to penetrate me, it’s been an amazing journey of roots going so much deeper. Design showed me that I have a lot more potential in me than what I thought and that I’m much bigger than what I really imagined. I experienced the depth of His love in such a deep, deep way. He showed me what is possible and what is in me that I carry - a deep passion of His love. And I’m able to actually give that out to others because it’s poured so much into me.”

  • Jodi

    CLASS OF 2023

    “I was fearful at first of doing Immerse and to become vulnerable with other peopIe, and I found that after being in the safe environment it didn’t feel that way at all. I spent many years building up the walls around my heart trying to protect myself and to let those come down within a community was hard. But I don’t regret doing it. In doing Immerse, I found a lot of love and acceptance, and it became a safe place to feel broken and learn more about the love the Lord has for me. I have even a deeper relationship with the Holy Spirit knowing that I can trust Him fully and completely in the places that He asks me to go even if they are vulnerable.”

  • Max

    CLASS OF 2023

    “For me coming into Immerse, I wanted to know things. I wanted to figure out why. But when I got into Romance and ‘He’s better than you think,’ I learned that I didn’t need to know the why, I just needed to immerse myself into His love and just be there. Now I know I have a voice, and now I know I am powerful in Christ. I know I can do so much with Him and through Him.”

  • Rosalie

    CLASS OF 2023

    “Learning about grace at Immerse exposed that I was believing for less than what God had already given and promised through the cross. I had an expectation that Jesus gave it all, but it was only a matter of what I could do to receive it or activate it without the understanding that He came 100% of the way for me. Grace solidified the foundation of my life that I could build everything on with confidence. Because if He went this far for me at the cross, death and resurrection, what else would He do in my life?”

  • Preston

    CLASS OF 2023

    “God showed me that I had my own set of rules, values, and expectations that He didn’t necessarily have. God asked me to allow His grace to cover my rules, values, and expectations and when I surrendered to that grace, it brought me a freedom I didn’t have before to enjoy my pursuit of Christ and loving people.”

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