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History is not primarily a record of darkness but of God’s invading presence. He moves not only to encompass a generation with love but to ignite His own burning light inside them until they fill the darkest regions of the earth with His life. He is inviting you to partner with Him in something greater than you can imagine. We launched the Center for Biblical End-Time Studies (CBETS), a three-year program of study through the 150 Bible chapters that are primarily about the end times. We announced our partnership with Every Home for Christ (EHC), one of the largest and most effective missions organizations in the world. We bought the strip mall on Red Bridge Road in Kansas City on February 26, 2001.
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The diverse topics featured include intimacy with Jesus, prayer, the Sermon on the Mount, and the return of Christ. We hosted the first Onething conference in January 2002 at the Kansas City Convention Center with several thousand worshipers. For the next 16 years, we were blessed to host an average of 20,000 young people who gathered in person and online to encounter God through extended times of worship, teaching of the Word, and ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit. In 2002, Dennis and Paula Bowers moved to Kansas City, and Dennis took up the position of leading the café— which offers coffee, tea, smoothies, and a variety of baked goods and food. Located next door to the prayer room, Higher Grounds is frequented for coffee-connects and fellowship by staff and visitors alike. Lenny and Tracey La Guardia moved to Kansas City to join the International House of Prayer and establish the Children’s Equipping Center (CEC).
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Those that are Kingdom minded are going from hidden places to high places. Great transformation is taking place - and WORSHIP & PRAYER continues to be the centerpiece of this great turnaround. Any amount contributes to consistent day and night worship happening in the greater Los Angeles area. Sometimes it takes talking to someone to figure out what you’re interested in studying and to discover the school or program that best fits you. Fill out the form below, and we will contact you to answer any questions you might have about applying to our university. Whether in the classroom, in the prayer room, or in practical expressions of ministry, you will be learning together with others who share your heart.
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Mike Bickle, founder of International House of Prayer KC, under investigation - KSHB 41 Kansas City News
Mike Bickle, founder of International House of Prayer KC, under investigation.
Posted: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
For the first time at IHOPU, students from all three schools—Forerunner School of Ministry, Forerunner Music Academy, and Forerunner Media Institute—were united on the same campus that year. The facility has also hosted various IHOPKC meetings, departments, and activities. The prayer room was moved from the trailer on Grandview Road into the remodeled Red Bridge Center, bringing a much-needed addition of space and amenities. The new prayer room was dedicated on March 7, 2003, and continues today as the Global Prayer Room (GPR). In the last few years - God has started tearing down the structures of old and is raising up a new expression to this generation.
Find yourself in the hands of a Father who loves you and who is dedicated to liberating, transforming, and establishing you in His purpose. The end-time church will shake the earth in preparation for the return of Jesus. We have an invitation to fill the earth with the gospel and the power of the Holy Spirit. This is your hour to take your place, engage in your calling, and shape history through prayer and fasting. You can now study in English, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Korean, with more languages on the way.
International House of Prayer founder confesses to ‘inappropriate behavior’ - WDAF FOX4 Kansas City
International House of Prayer founder confesses to ‘inappropriate behavior’.
Posted: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 08:00:00 GMT [source]
IHOPKC worship leaders, singers, and musicians from the prayer room, including Jon Thurlow, Misty Edwards, Jaye Thomas, and Laura Hackett Park, have been featured on around 150 albums from Forerunner Music. IHOPU obtained permission to accept international students, and the first students from outside the US arrived for the fall semester of 2010. Today, students come from countries as diverse as China, Tajikistan, Egypt, England, Korea, Canada, and Brazil to encounter Jesus in His Word and in prayer with worship. Lenny and Tracy La Guardia led the first Children’s Equipping Center camp just outside Kansas City. They’ve since grown to hosting multiple camps each summer and have seen camps established across the US and internationally in places like Poland. A few of the children who attended that first camp in 2002 are part of our staff today as worship leaders, singers, and musicians.
Over the next two years, we gradually moved our center of operations from the trailers in Grandview to the new location at Red Bridge Center equipped with much-needed office space and meeting rooms. We also expanded our facilities during that time by providing a kitchen for the internships and starting work on a coffee shop. The Isaiah 19 Initiative is committed to building up a culture of prayer within the Body of Christ for the highway of worship, unprecedented unity, and the completion of the Great Commission in Egypt, Assyria, and Israel.
Forerunner School of Prayer, which would later become International House of Prayer University, was founded in 1999, equipping people to intercede and lead a lifestyle of prayer. I’ve loved this app for the years I’ve had it, and it has really pushed me deeper in the Lord in seasons of my life. But 3 stars remain because the app hasn’t been updated in over a year. A few things are broken now; you can’t search sermons by teacher anymore (if you try to it crashes), and managing my downloads doesn’t work (will also crash). The sermons are amazing, I love the worship, and the all nations prayer room is a blessing too. After receiving specific direction from the Lord, Mike called churches in Kansas City to a 21-day solemn assembly of prayer and fasting.
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As different ethnic groups continued to grow in our community, more languages were added to prayer meetings. On June 10, 2013, we dedicated the All Nations Prayer Room to the Lord where prayer with worship was led 85 hours per week in nine languages—Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Portuguese, French, and German. At our tenth anniversary, on September 19, 2009, our staff members renewed their commitment to serve the Lord in 24/7 prayer with worship and made an additional commitment to serve the Lord and people with 24/7 works of justice. These labors involve mercy ministry (e.g., food, shelter), justice issues (e.g., sanctity of life), missions, and evangelism. We expanded our setup to seven cameras and our schedule to full-time streaming. The webstream is available online and through apps for tablets and smartphones.
Everything we offer is yours to access and enjoy wherever you live. Engage with our leaders in Kansas City from anywhere on earth, at any time. During our 19th anniversary, about 1,000 Chinese church leaders from across the globe joined us in Kansas City. This four-day gathering called Convergence was greatly used by the Lord to shift our IHOPKC community into a reset with a renewed commitment to prioritize growing as a family. Our newly renovated university campus opened its doors to returning and incoming students, offering much-needed additional space from its previous building.
During that time, the Lord gave a prophetic word to do “24/7 prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle of David.” This birthed 16 years of prayer meetings held three times per day at the church Mike was pastoring. He now says the word was the continuation of what he had first heard in the hotel in Cairo eight months earlier, that the two words are linked. We celebrated twenty years of 24/7 prayer with worship, grateful to the Lord for His grace and leadership. We are thankful for all those who have served on staff—from the first worship song in the old trailers on September 19, 1999 to today.
Our desire is that every tribe, tongue, and nation be fully immersed in the beauty of Jesus and the details of His glorious return in their “heart language”—their mother tongue. The developer, International House of Prayer, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. We held the last (for the foreseeable future) Onething conference—an annual tradition since 2002 which has attracted tens of thousands of believers to Kansas City.
Four months later, on September 19, these “intercessory missionaries” extended their schedule to 24/7. A movement of unceasing worship with prayer had begun, which, in the grace of God, shall continue till Jesus returns. On May 7, 1999, the International House of Prayer began in the “old trailers” on Grandview Road, with 13 hours of prayer and worship each day. Mike Bickle and a small group of intercessors and worship leaders staffed the prayer room. Our hearts overflow with thanks to the Lord for His grace and faithfulness to us over the years. A few years after the prayer room opened in 1999, prayer meetings began in Spanish, Korean, and Chinese.
The first internship began with five young adults, including Misty Edwards, Alisha Powell, and Aaron Walsh. Since then we have expanded to five different internships and have had the privilege to be part of equipping thousands of interns who have gone on to staff prayer rooms across the US and abroad (as well as our own prayer room). When the two first met, Bob Jones told Mike Bickle that the Lord would use him to pastor a young adult movement of singers and musicians who would pray for Israel and have strong ties to Asia. Mike initially didn’t believe Bob, but two weeks later it was confirmed to him that Bob, in fact, had heard from the Lord. Bob, who passed away in 2014, played a pivotal role in encouraging Mike during the early years of the movement and was a great friend to IHOPKC. Our Global Classroom offers an unparalleled experience and dynamic training with no boundaries.
On March 21, 2002, we acquired Hernnhut Apartments next door to the prayer room on Red Bridge Road. This tremendous resource has housed many staff members, interns, and visitors from around the world and continues to serve as a great asset to our ministry. We joined Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in a commitment to help raise up one million intercessors for global missions, furthering the partnership between IHOPKC and YWAM and the joining of missions and prayer. Mike Bickle’s online teaching library launched in 2009, offering its resources to anyone for free. Equipped with audio and video teachings, study notes, and other resources, the library spans over 30 years of Mike’s ministry.
The last Onething built on themes of the reset, with a more spontaneous and family feel that included times of corporate confession, intercession, and repentance. In Assisi, Italy, Mike heard the Lord say that He would raise up “friends of the Bridegroom forerunner messengers” to prepare the Bride for Christ’s return. John the Baptist called himself a “friend of the Bridegroom” because he prepared the way for Jesus’ first coming. We are believing the Lord to raise up many such messengers in advance of Jesus’ second coming. This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.
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