I have a HUGE announcement, but first here are some quick bullet points of smaller updates in my personal life and at The Prayer Room.
- I turned 30! I felt very well loved and celebrated by my community.
- I moved in with a different prayer room family closer to base. They’re great, the house is gorgeous, and I now live with a 6-year-old and a puppy!
- I’m growing in leading full worship teams, both for intercession and worship with the Word.
- I’m leading an intercession set for racial reconciliation! This has been a desire for six months or so, and we’re so excited it finally landed.
- My church, Forerunner Fellowship, is growing and moving into a larger building! We’re seeing CRAZY favor in the renting and remodeling.
- TPR added several new missionaries! Andrew and Risa Adams (the fam I live with) and Christi Schimp are amazing. Plus, we get IHOPU extern Jessi Getz for the summer!
Okay, without further ado…
IHOPU at TPR!
After 10 years of working closely with the International House of Prayer University in Kansas City, TPR will be taking that partnership to a whole new level for Fall 2020. Beginning August 17th, TPR will become an IHOPU Educational Partner Location.
This partnership will be such a unique experience as students will virtually attend IHOPU classes (receiving instruction from IHOPU faculty) while being in community and doing their prayer room hours at TPR in Arlington. Students will be able to choose from a 1-year, 2-year, or 4-year IHOPU certificate, and may sign up for either the Forerunner School of Ministry or the Forerunner School of Worship.
IHOPU’s mandate has always been to equip and send out believers in wholehearted love to preach the Word, heal the sick, serve the poor, plant houses of prayer and praying churches, and proclaim the return of Jesus as King before He comes. This training has primarily taken place in Kansas City—until now. This fall TPR will become one of three pilot locations where you can be a full-time IHOPU student without moving to Kansas City.
The other two locations are IHOPEG in New Jersey, and Preparing the Way Ministries in Lake Charles, LA. Several more locations will be jumping on board in the spring, and no doubt more in the semesters to come.
For this first year, tuition will be 65% off, with the first payment due in January. This is a ridiculous opportunity for us, for IHOPU, and for the students God is sending!
What This Means for The Prayer Movement
As this grows and other locations spring up around the earth, our ability to raise up forerunners is going to increase dramatically. I believe that God is going to use this new expression of IHOPU to rapidly multiply prophetic voices and lovesick worshippers in this generation. The possibilities are endless– houses of prayer strengthened and planted, praying churches strengthened and planted, forerunner messengers in every realm of society with clarity on what God is doing in this generation.
Students will graduate already feeling deeply connected to a local community that’s doing it. It’s been a sad reality that too many IHOPU students graduate in Kansas City and then drift off into the void, full of training and vision but without a community to run with… and over time the vision wanes. These local schools are going to give students an incredible opportunity to stay on track and keep doing what they’re called to.
At TPR, we are so excited to gain new friends in our community who come burning with desire for Jesus and are actively involved full-time around the base. They’re going to be such a joy and strength as they serve in the prayer room, hang out with us over Catan and tacos, and generally make our world a better place. Lord willing, some of them will stick around, join staff, and become family forever!
For more info, check out TPR’s website with all the details!