IHOP–KC’s New Justice and Outreach Initiatives
I. GOD IS CHANGING THE EXPRESSION OF CHRISTIANITY (CAIRO, SEPTEMBER 1982)
A. Our justice commitment: By the grace of God, we commit to combine 24/7 prayers for justice with 24/7 works of
justice until the Lord returns.
B. We are on a journey to discover how to walk out new expressions of Christianity. This includes functioning as a
house of prayer or as the Father’s house with the forerunner spirit of Elijah.
5 I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. 6 And he will turn
the hearts of the fathers to the children… (Mal. 4:5-6)
27 Pure and undefiled religion…is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble. (Jas. 1:27)
C. We honor our past outreaches which include: focusing on the poor in India (D. Steadman), feeding the poor
(R. Calhoun) and reaching the lost (H. Linhardt). Our current outreaches include: seven weekly evangelistic
outreaches plus the St. Patrick’s Day and Halloween annual outreaches, healing rooms, inner city (Ray & Lisa
Stribling), Lou Engle’s voice to the political arena plus our current involvement in pro-life (orphans, adoptions, human
trafficking, etc.) and benevolence ministries (P. Stead). In our Myanmar outreach (Levi Lim) IHOP–KC donated $1
million to the needy (Aug. 2008-Jul. 2009) to help build schools, churches, houses, boats, mini-hydropower plants,
fund medical projects, and give Bibles to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
D. Orphan Justice Center (children at risk): works to adopt and restore orphaned children including
undocumented refugee minors. We are asking the Lord to help us to care for 10,000 children as a vital part of the
IHOP–KC family in the context of our missions base in Kansas City.
E. Zoe Foundation and Hannah's Dream (adoption agency): Zoe Foundation helps fund adoption of children as
an alternative to abortion, as well as providing care for the birth mothers. Hannah’s Dream is our adoption agency
that works to significantly lower the costs of adoption.
F. Women’s Life Center (Herrnhut Apartments)
1. Birth mother homes: designate apartments to help needy moms (who decide to not abort)
2. Group foster homes: for orphans and providing resources to families who adopt children
3. Human trafficking: with special focus on URMs (unaccompanied refugee minor) or refugee
children who arrive in the United States with no parent or guardian)
4. Safe homes: first response homes for those rescued from human trafficking
5. Domestic violence: ministry to battered women
6. Prostitutes: focus on serving our Hope City inner city outreach
7. Drug rehab: focus on serving our Hope City inner city outreach
8. Big sisters program: focus on serving our Hope City inner city outreach
9. Honoring widows: helping widows according to 1 Tim. 5:3-16
10. Special needs children: those with physical or developmental disabilities
G. Justice Ministry Center (Red Bridge Center with Shiloh)
1. Crisis pregnancy center: providing counseling and support
2. Basic education: teach English, GED programs, elementary school (for orphans)
3. Life skills: financial, hygiene, health, social skills, housing, etc.
4. Occupation skills: i.e., cleaning, hair cutting, child care, phone banks, warehouse, etc.
5. Emotional healing and Bible training: with emphasis on foundational truths
6. Justice Prayer Room: 6–12 hours a day
7. Administration: for the Women’s Life Center and IHOP–KC’s justice initiatives: Exodus Cry
(human trafficking), Bound4LIFE-KC (pro-life), Orphan Justice Center (children at risk),
Zoe Foundation (raises money to help fund adoptions), Hannah's Dream (adoption agency).
H. Hope City inner city outreach will be an extensive ministry center that will work with other ministries. It will
include a network of buildings providing rooms that include:
1. IHOP–KC prayer room: with space to seat approximately 500 people
2. Staff housing: some staff will live in the apartments
3. Soup kitchen: on-site food distribution
4. Live-in discipleship program: for new believers
5. Community center: youth-oriented with a YMCA-type function
6. Health services: health clinic with some on-site care
7. Warehouse: facilities to provide the poor with food and clothing
8. Homeless shelter:
9. Administration: (office space)
10. Ministry rooms: focused on evangelism, discipleship, life training, as well as Bible training,
children’s ministry, family building, educational (literacy and GED), life rehab (drug and
alcohol), high school and jr. high outreaches, Bible programs for kids in the neighborhoods,
big brother/big sister programs and an Adopt-A-Block program to provide practical
servanthood such as cleaning up neighborhoods, and evangelizing
11. Occupational: training, helping to start new businesses, etc.
12. Mobile food trucks: to serve food to starving families
13. Hospice care: enables patients to continue an alert, pain-free life and to manage other
symptoms so their last days are spent with dignity and quality surrounded by loved ones
I. Evangelizing Kansas City: Mark Anderson is committing YWAM’s resources and wisdom to help us work with
other ministries to systematically evangelize Kansas City starting with Grandview and the inner city. Neighborhood
centers will be centers for mission activity within a neighborhood. They will help mobilize believers in each
neighborhood to evangelize and disciple according to the seven spheres of influence in society (family, business,
education, government, media and technology, arts and entertainment, and science).
J. Healing Rooms/Prophecy Rooms: Both ministries began at IHOP–KC in 2002. Since that time the Healing
Rooms have ministered to 35,000 people (currently, 1,200 people each month) and the Prophecy Rooms have
ministered to 75,000 people (currently about 1,500 each month).
II. OUTREACHES AND JUSTICE INITIATIVES: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL
A. Crisis Response International (CRI): CRI is a disaster relief organization committed to training end-time
prophetic mercy missionaries mobilized in the forerunner spirit of night and day prayer. CRI seeks to reach the
harvest in crisis and rebuild cities through demonstrations of God’s power and His kingdom. CRI provides response
relief to those affected by disasters or emergency situations by giving immediate access to clean water, food, shelter,
medical care, and security, as well as helping those affected by such crises to rebuild their lives and the cities they
live in.
B. Exodus Cry: works for the ending of human trafficking and the restoration of those caught in the web of the sex
industry. It seeks to bring widespread awareness of the issues of modern slavery while reaching out to those caught
in the sex industry.
C. Bound4LIFE (pro-life): works for the ending of abortion, the increase of adoptions, and the reformation of
government and society through spiritual awakening. It began in May 2006.
D. African America Forerunner Alliance: the Lord has given a mandate to African Americans to give primary
leadership in the worship movement; AAFA serves the black community and works to see those of African descent
walk in the fullness of their leadership calling.
E. TheCall: Launched by Lou Engle, it gathers believers in stadiums and arenas in the spirit of Joel 2:15 to
contend for revival and to target false ideologies through mass prayer and fasting. The first Call took place in
Washington, DC, in September 2000, gathering nearly 400,000 people to the National Mall. Since that time, TheCall
has hosted solemn assemblies in over a dozen cities in the US and internationally, filling stadiums and arenas with
worship and prayer.
F. Luke18 Project: trains young adults to plant prayer furnaces on college campuses and equip them to live out
the Sacred Charge. Our vision is to work with other ministries to establish prayer ministries on all 2,600 college
campuses in America. We currently have over 150 prayer groups.
G. I Love Myanmar: In response to the devastation that Cyclone Nargis brought to the nation of Myanmar, Levi
Lim launched a humanitarian relief organization to serve its victims: to continue to help build schools, churches,
homes, boats, and mini-hydropower plants, fund medical projects, and provide Bibles to help the victims of Cyclone
Nargis.
H. Israel: The Church is to obey Jesus’ leadership in loving the Jewish people in practical ways, including sharing
resources, praying for their salvation, and standing with them in persecution.
III. PRAYING CHURCH
A. The Praying Church is a local church movement committed to preaching the gospel and doing works of justice
while rooted in 24/7 prayer, and modeled on the Book of Acts with a commitment to partner with Jesus in His plans as
set forth in the book of Revelation.
B. It intentionally works to prepare the Church as a Bride (Rev. 19:7) to actively participate with Jesus’ plan, as
seen in Revelation, to transform every nation as it comes under His leadership.
C. It builds churches that prioritize intimacy with God, intercession for transformation, and the raising up of
forerunner messengers (Mal. 4:5-6) with a prayer room at the center of its ministry life, while seeking to establish God’
s kingdom in the seven spheres of society: family, education, government, economy, arts, media, and religion.
IV. CALL2ALL
A. The IHOP Missions Base deeply supports the ministry and vision of Call2All. The Call2All is led by the two
largest mission organizations in history: Campus Crusade for Christ, started by Bill Bright in 1951, and Youth With A
Mission (YWAM), started by Loren Cunningham in 1960. Together, these two organizations have almost 50,000 full-
time staff and 500,000 part time staff. This represents 12% of the mission work force across the earth. Bill Bright died
on July 19, 2003. Steve Douglas now leads Campus Crusade for Christ. The Call2All ministry was initially birthed by
Bill Bright. It will host 40 congresses over a three-year period. Call2All congresses have been hosted in Orlando,
Dayton, Nairobi, Toronto, Hong Kong, Curtiba (Brazil), Kiev (Ukraine). They represent 1,200 different organizations
and denominations.
B. In January 2008, Mark Anderson, leader of the Call2All, hosted a congress in Orlando was attended by 600
leaders (CEOs of 170 of the primary missions organizations in the world with many international prayer ministries).
C. At Orlando, the missions leaders and prayer leaders recognized God’s hand in establishing them in a strategic
alliance to bring the gospel to every nation. Missions leaders define 4,000 geo-political zones on earth. Each missions
organization must be covered in prayer.
D. We are calling each prayer ministry and intercessor across the earth to adopt one missions organization,
three missionaries, and one of the 4,000 zones to cover in prayer.
E. The organizations IHOP-KC has committed to cover in prayer are YWAM (Jan. 2004) and
GOD TV (Jan. 2007); Egypt is our zone (Feb. 2008). We have added Every Home for Christ, led by Dick Eastman.
We are also committed to covering in regular prayer several ministries focused on the salvation of Israel. They
include Tikkun Ministries, the Road To Jerusalem led by Coach McCartney, Eagles’ Wings led by Robert Stearns, etc.