Prayer Missionary?

First, “Intercessory Missionaries” are people from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds who collectively pray night and day for the release of the Great Harvest (Matt. 9:37-38). IHOP is burdened with urgency to win the unreached peoples of the earth to Jesus. Second, they provide vital prayer covering to missionaries currently on the field. Third, they train future “intercessory missionaries” to be sent out to other cities. Fourth, they go on short term mission trips to help establish Houses of Prayer in other nations. Fifth, they personally relocate to strategic places in the earth as long term “intercessory missionaries.”The majority of “intercessory missionaries” who come to serve in IHOP of Kansas City will remain short term (about two years). Here they will be saturated in the IHOP model as they team up with others to “plant” Houses of Prayer around the world.

Full Time “intercessory missionaries” at IHOP in Kansas City commit themselves to 50 hours per week of dedicated service. This includes helping to lead intercessory worship meetings, training others, evangelism, outreach to the poor, serving in administrative infrastructure, etc. These missionaries are not on holiday in Kansas City. They maintain a rigorous prayer life, while being encouraged to embrace regular times of fasting and to serve the poor.

“What we do is this — we sit in blue chairs, don’t eat, talk to an invisible person, hear voices and we expect Him to split the skies and rule the earth. Don’t they medicate people who talk like this?” Stuart Greaves, while trying to answer the question-”What do intercessory missionaries do?”