About the Speakers
Lou Engle
Lou Engle is the visionary and co-founder of TheCall solemn assemblies (www.TheCall.com), a movement of prayer gathering young adults to pray and fast for breakthrough and revival. TheCall began in Washington, DC in 2000 gathering over 400,000 people to pray and fast for the United States. Since 2000, The Call has gathered hundreds of thousands of people to pray both national and internationally. After a few years of dormancy, TheCall was revived on 07.07.07 with over 70,000 people gathering for TheCall Nashville.
Lou Engle's heart passion is to call young adults into a lifestyle of radical prayer, fasting, and holiness. In 2004, Lou planted the first Justice House of Prayer in Washington, DC to contend with the injustice of abortion and to pray for righteous leaders to be raised up in America. Since then, JHOPs have emerged in San Francisco, Boston, New York, and San Diego.
Currently, Lou Engle resides in Kansas City, MO where TheCall finds its headquarters. He is also a senior leader at the International House of Prayer in Kansas City with Mike Bickle.
Lou and his wife, Therese, have been married for over 20 years and together they have five sons and two daughters.
Mike Bickle
Mike
Bickle is the Director of the International House of Prayer in Kansas
City, Missouri (IHOP–KC), a 24-hour a day ministry of “Worship with
Intercession” in the spirit of the Tabernacle of David. Since September
19, 1999, they have continued in non-stop intercession with worship and
fasting teams covering 365 days a year. Currently, over 400 people
serve on the full-time IHOP–KC staff in intercession, worship and
fasting as they are being equipped to fulfill the Great Commission by
reaching out in evangelism, prophetic ministry, healing the sick and
providing for the poor.Mike is also the President of the Forerunner School of Ministry (FSM), a full-time Bible school in Kansas City. The vision of FSM is, in the context of night and day prayer, to thoroughly train 10,000 leaders, singers, musicians and preachers in the knowledge of God for mighty and extravagant expressions of love. Mike has authored several books including Passion for Jesus, Growing in the Prophetic, The Pleasures of Loving God, After God's Own Heart, The Rewards of Fasting: Experiencing the Emotions and Power of God, and The Seven Longings of the Heart. Mike's teaching emphasizes how to grow in passion for Jesus through intimacy with God. At this time Mike is not actively traveling, however, he does speak at every IHOP conference. Visit the Events Section to view upcoming conferences at IHOP. We encourage you to request a traveling team if you are interested in understanding more about the vision and values of the International House of Prayer.
Allen Hood
The
pleasures of the Godhead and the glorious desire of Christ for His
Bride are two themes in which Allen most desires to see the heart of
the corporate Church established. As a regular keynote speaker with
extensive experience teaching throughout the country, Allen’s passion
is for the Son of God to be glorified in this generation through
individual devotion and worldwide revival. His highest call is to
contend in intercession at the International House of Prayer in Kansas
City (IHOP-KC) for the fullness of God to be released in the Church,
and for God to raise up a young adult prayer and missions movement. His
highest joy and privilege is to proclaim the glorious splendors of the
God-Man, Christ Jesus. To this end, he is deeply committed to seeing
24-hour corporate worship and intercession established in the nations
of the earth.
Prior to moving to Kansas City, Missouri, Allen served as a college pastor in a church plant in Kentucky. As the director of a mentoring ministry, he trained young adult teams to go to the nations and share the Gospel. Functioning as the Associate Director of IHOP-KC, Allen has co-labored with Mike Bickle for years in intercession, teaching and preaching to prepare and equip a generation for the Great Harvest and the Second Coming of Jesus. Most recently he was given the privilege of being the President of the Forerunner School of Ministry (FSM), a full-time Bible school in Kansas City.
This vision of FSM is, in the context of night and day prayer, to thoroughly train 10,000 leaders, singers, musicians and preachers in the knowledge of God for mighty and extravagant expressions of love. Allen (M. Div., Asbury Theological Seminary) currently resides in Kansas City with his wife, Rachel, and their three boys, Samuel, Jonathan David and Joshua
Bill Johnson
Bill and Brenda (Beni) Johnson are the Senior Pastors of Bethel Church.
Bill is a fifth generation pastor with a rich heritage in the things of
the Spirit. Together they serve a growing number of churches that have
partnered for revival. This apostolic network has crossed
denominational lines in building relationships that enable church
leaders to walk in both purity and power.
The present move of God has brought Bill into a deeper understanding of
the phrase, "on earth as it is in heaven." Heaven is the model for our
life and ministry. Jesus lived with this principle by only doing what
He saw His Father doing. Learning to recognize the Holy Spirit's
presence, and how to follow His lead will enable us to do the works of
Christ, destroying the works of the devil. Healing and deliverance must
become the common expression of this gospel of power once again.
Bill and the Bethel Church family have taken on this theme for life and
ministry.
Healings, ranging from cancer to broken bones, to learning disorders and emotional healing, happen with regularity. This is the children's bread. And these works of God are not limited to revival meetings. The church is learning how to take this anointing to the schools, workplace, and neighborhoods with similar results. Bill teaches that we owe the world an encounter with God, and that a Gospel without power is not the Gospel that Jesus preached. Beni has a call to intercession that is an integral part of the Bethel Church mission. She is in charge of the Bethel's Prayer House, ministry teams and the intercessors. The Lord has given her a heart for broken people of all ages. Her insight into strategies for prayer and her involvement in prayer networks have helped to bring the much-needed breakthrough in Bethel's ministry.
Chuck Missler
Chuck
and Nancy Missler were both raised in Southern California.
Chuck demonstrated an aptitude for technical interests as a youth. He
became a ham radio operator at age nine and started piloting airplanes
as a teenager. While still in high school, Chuck built a digital
computer in the family garage.
His plans to pursue a doctorate in electrical engineering at Stanford
University were interrupted when he received a Congressional
appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. Graduating
with honors, Chuck took his commission in the Air Force. After
completing flight training, he met and married Nancy. Chuck joined the Missile Program and eventually became Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles. Chuck made the transition from the military to the private sector when he became a systems engineer with TRW, a large aerospace firm. He then went on to serve as a senior analyst with a non-profit think tank where he conducted projects for the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. During that time, Chuck earned a master's degree in engineering at UCLA, supplementing previous graduate work in applied mathematics, advanced statistics and information sciences. Recruited into senior management at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan, Chuck established the first international computer network in 1966. He left Ford to start his own company, a computer network firm that was subsequently acquired by Automatic Data Processing (listed on the New York Stock Exchange) to become its Network Services Division. Returning to California, Chuck found himself consulting, organizing corporate development deals, serving on the board of directors at several firms, and specializing in the rescuing of financially troubled technology companies. He brought several companies out of Chapter 11 and into profitable operation. Chuck thrived on this type of work.
As Chuck notes, his day of reckoning came several years ago when -- as the result of a merger -- he found himself the chairman and a major shareholder of a small, publicly owned development company known as Phoenix Group International. The firm established an $8 billion joint venture with the Soviet Union to supply personal computers to their 143,000 schools. Due to several unforeseen circumstances, the venture failed. The Misslers lost everything, including their home, automobiles and insurance. It was during this difficult time that Chuck turned to God and the Bible. As a child he developed an intense interest in the Bible; studying it became a favorite pastime. In the 1970s, while still in the corporate world, Chuck began leading weekly Bible studies at the 30,000-member Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, in California.
He and Nancy established Koinonia House in 1973. Over the years, Chuck had developed a loyal following. Koinonia House then became Chuck's full-time profession. Nancy and Chuck now travel and teach through their ministry, Koinonia House, and they remain dedicated to create, develop and distribute materials which stimulate, encourage and facilitate serious study of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God.
Neville Johnson
Neville has been in full time ministry for over 30 years. During this
time he has founded two Bible schools training ministers and
missionaries who are now serving the Lord in fifteen nations. He also
established a missionary organization sending over thirty missionaries
to the mission fields of the world.
Through the 1970's and into the eighties he was Senior Pastor of the
largest Church in Australia and in the late eighties he founded another
Church in Perth, Western Australia.
He is Director of Living Word Foundation in the heart of the City of
Perth. In 1995 he established a School of Intercession, Spiritual
Warfare and Prophetic Ministry and Spiritual Mapping.
With great effect he has preached the Gospel and taught the Word of God
in over thirty nations and has ministered in countless ministers
seminars around the world. He has a burden for the lost and an
apostolic calling to the nations.Mark Virkler
Mark
grew up conservative Baptist (Evangelical Baptist), and Patti
conservative Evangelical United Brethren. They met while at Roberts
Wesleyan College in North Chili, N.Y., and married during their third
year. They graduated in 1974, Patti graduating magna cum laude. Since
then, Mark has received a Master of Theology from Miami Christian
University and a Ph.D. from Carolina Christian University.
They have two children, Charity and Joshua. They have been active in ministry together since meeting in 1970. They founded a church, Pioneer Christian Fellowship, and worked on several church staffs over the years. They have helped develop three networks of church-centered Bible schools, and currently head up Communion With God Ministries.
Mark’s hunger to hear God’s voice was rewarded in 1979 when he set the entire year aside to learn to do so. God gave him a breakthrough, which is recorded in the books How to Hear God's Voice and Dialogue With God. Mark has traveled worldwide since 1984 teaching the Communion With God weekend seminar. God has given him a commission to saturate the world with the message of communion with God. Mark and Patti hold firmly to two great historical creeds of Orthodox Christianity, the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed. Mark and Patti are interdenominational in their ministry. They believe fully in the authority and inerrancy of the Bible and in the power and anointing of the Holy Spirit.
