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| Elizabeth (Beth) Alves |
| President of Intercessors International |
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 "Lord teach me to pray," became her desperate cry when Beth first began to intercede. God in His faithfulness answered this prayer, and anointed her not only for intercession but the prophetic as well. Over the years, the Lord has unfolded simple, yet profound, truths that she imparts to others. Thousands from the nations have been released into ministry as they learn principles of prayer and the prophetic through Beth. Using gentleness, humor and simplicity, she captures the hearts of her listeners, encouraging them that they, too, can hear the voice of the Lord. Traveling extensively, she teaches and ministers in seminars and conferences worldwide. Beth's proficiency and accuracy in the prophetic has given her credibility among world leaders. She is co-founder and President of Intercessors International, a prayer ministry that trains and equips intercessors to undergird the work of business and spiritual leaders around the world. Because of the Lord's anointing in wisdom, insight and the prophetic, Beth is a sought-after consultant in the business community and is on the board of two international companies. In 2002 she founded the Strategic Training Center which has the mission for training and placing intercessors into all facets of life to include the corporate world. In addition to co-authoring Intercessors: Discover Your Prayer Power, Beth has authored Becoming a Prayer Warrior, The Mighty Warrior: A Guide to Effective Prayer, Daily Prayers and booklets in the Praying With Purpose series. Her publications have been translated in numerous languages. Beth also writes a weekly prayer for the President's P.I.T. Crew, a national prayer group she established to pray for the U.S. President, his family and those who guard them. She is a core faculty member of Wagner Leadership Institute and served as a part time faculty member for Christ for the Nations Institute, in Dallas, Texas. She is a member of the Apostolic Counsel of Prophetic Elders (ACPE) and a member of the International Coalition of Apostles
(ICA). She is also a consultant in Prayer Outreach for Campus Crusade for Christ (Europe). Beth is on the board of Ministry to the Nations and has also has served on the board of directors of Aglow International for 14 years.
Ordained as a minister of the Gospel since 1979, she has traveled to over thirty nations bringing spiritual insight as she teaches and ministers. Beth and her husband, Floyd, have four daughters and fifteen grandchildren. They live in Texas and are life-giving members in their local church. |
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| Lindell Cooley |
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 Raised as the only child of a minister in Northern Alabama, Lindell Cooley was surrounded by ministry and music throughout his formative years. His first practical musical experience came when he was taught to play the tambourine at the age of five. From there, he went on to play the drums, bass guitar, organ and piano. Nearly three decades later, he is drawing on all those musical skills and more as president of Music Missions International (MMI) and music minister at the Brownsville Assembly of God Church in Pensacola, Florida.
"I always had a desire to lead people in praise," Lindell says. "I love it when people get caught up in worship. There are times when we are worshipping that I sense His approval--and that’s what it’s about--doing what is pleasing to the Lord. It’s during these intimate times with the Lord that people’s lives are being transformed."
At twenty-one, Cooley was spending part of his time playing the piano with Christian musicians Lenny LeBlanc and Rusty Goodman and the other part serving as associate pastor in his father’s church. But he knew he had a destiny to fulfill and at the age of twenty-eight. He set off to find it.
Cooley moved to Nashville, Tennessee, and began working at Christ Church as an assistant music minister. Two years later, he left Christ Church to become a studio musician and an independent producer. In the fall of 1994, Lindell Cooley visited Brownsville Assembly and met with Pastor John Kilpatrick. In February of 1995, Kilpatrick needed a music minister and believed Lindell was God’s choice for the position. After initially turning down the job, Cooley accepted and arrived in April of 1995. Two months later while Lindell was away on a missions trip to the Ukraine, a historic revival began.
It has been a long road from playing the tambourine to leading the music of a historic revival. Not just any revival, but a revival that has played host to nearly 4,000,000 visitors with no end in sight. The revival in Pensacola continues with the largest crowds recorded visiting in the spring of 1999. In the midst of this awakening, Cooley has seized the opportunity to create a company unlike any other in the music industry.
Music Missions International is a not-for-profit organization devoted to making the music of the revival available to the world. Profits are used to support a variety of missions and ministry efforts throughout the world.
"We want to build a missions organization that has a life beyond the music," Cooley says. "We’re planning to go and do some of the missions work ourselves as we head to Korea, Japan and New Zealand--not only to do crusades, but to go in before hand and offer worship clinics and seminars--helping to spread the gospel."
"We’d like to be around in fifty years if God tarries, and we’re taking our cues from other organizations to attain that kind of longevity. We don’t want to be a maverick entity out there without a church. A lot of missions work requires money, and we’re helping to be a supplier of those funds. We can find the workers, but the challenge is finding the money to get them there. Music is the instrument of this message but the heart of this company lives in missions." |
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| Jim Goll |
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 Jim Goll, the former Dean of the School of the Spirit at Grace Training Center, Kansas City, Missouri, along with his wife, Michal Ann, has founded Ministry to the Nations. After pastoring for 13 years, Jim was thrust forth in 1987 into an itinerant role of equipping leaders and churches. Along with traveling widely, around the world including North and Central America, Europe, and the Caribbean, teaching and imparting the power of intercession, prophetic ministry, and the life in the Spirit , Jim and Michal Ann Goll have authored several books and Jim also has written a number of intercessory training manuals.
Jim and Michal Ann have been married for 20 years. The Lord has miraculously healed Jim and Michal Ann from barrenness. They along with their four lovely children; Justin, Grace Ann, Tyler, and Rachel, make their home in Nashville, TN. |
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| Jim Hodges |
| President of the Federation of Ministers & Churches |
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 Jim is the founder of the Federation of Ministers and Churches, a relational, apostolic network of ministers, apostolic teams and local churches across the nation. Having ministered in over 40 nations, Apostle Hodges serves the Body of Christ internationally as a teaching apostle with a passion to see the Body of Christ fully established. Jim has tremendous revelation of how the apostolic expression of Christ is being poured out on the Church, and how the apostolic gift functions both translocally and within the local assembly. He is a graduate of Wheaton College and Central Baptist Theological Seminary, and he served as Bible instructor and missions director for 10 years at Christ For The Nations Institute in Dallas, TX. Jim founded and pastored two churches. He and his wife Jean now reside in the Dallas area. |
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| Pastor Billy Hornsby |
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 Billy Hornsby is a minister that has worked for over 20 years with church leaders nationally and internationally. He is a published author who holds leadership seminars that focus on building relationships and developing small group facilitators. He is a keynote speaker for business groups, educational and government agencies speaking on the topic of how to maintain productive relationships. He has been married for over 35 years to his wife Charlene. |
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| Bishop Harry Jackson |
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 Harry R. Jackson, Jr. is senior pastor of Hope Christian Church located in College Park, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. This growing church of over 2000 attendees has multiple locations throughout the metropolitan area and represents over 22 nationalities and/or cultural groups. Hope's ministries include a Bible College and an active missions ministry involved in sending worship and teaching teams to various nations.
Bishop Jackson has preached in over 11 nations, in local churches, Bible schools, pastors' conferences and crusades. Bishop Jackson's ministry revolves around two major focuses: personal communion with Christ and equipping believers for local church service. His teaching ministry has taken him to Bible schools, leadership conferences and churches in the United States and abroad. Bishop Jackson's unique teaching ministry, "The Hope Connection", can be seen in the United States weekly on a morning television broadcast program as well as several daily radio broadcasts. The Hope Connection is also seen in 24 countries in Europe.
Bishop Jackson was a scholar athlete in high school and college. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Williams College in 1975. After a few years in sales and marketing management, Bishop Jackson returned to school to earn a Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1980. Finally, for his work in Bible schools and churches domestically and abroad, Bishop Jackson was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Christian Life School of Theology in Columbus, Georgia in 1996.
In December 1999 Bishop Jackson was consecrated a bishop of the Fellowship of International Churches (FOIC). The FOIC's vision is, in part, to promote restoration of kingdom reality in the marketplace and to prepare the church for a revival of holiness. Its mission is, in part, there construction of society through church planting and making multicultural disciples from each generation.
Harry is married to his childhood friend Michele. They have two adult daughters, Joni Michele and Elizabeth. |
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| Chuck Pierce |
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 Dr. Charles D. "Chuck" Pierce has been used by God to intercede and mobilize prayer for local churches, cities and nations. He presently serves as Vice President of Global Harvest Ministries. Chuck has been involved with leading and mobilizing the worldwide prayer movement this past decade. He is an ordained minister and serves as President of Glory of Zion International Ministries in Denton, Texas. This ministry facilitates the vision of other apostolic ministries worldwide. Glory of Zion International also develops and covers the Eagles of God Apostolic Intercessory Teams that are sent on key prayer assignments worldwide.
He has served as Executive Director for several non-profit missions organizations and ministries. He presently serves on various national Boards of ministries within our nation, including Generals of Intercession and the International Strategic Prayer Network. He is a member of the International Coalition of Apostles and the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders. Chuck coordinates prayer for many of the major spiritual events and gatherings around the world. He also serves as National Apostle of the U.S. Strategic Prayer Network.
Chuck ministers with a prophetic anointing to help individuals, churches, businesses and other mission organizations understand how they can move in intercession, spiritual warfare and revival, and establish the vision of God in their areas. He has a degree in Business from Texas A&M, Master’s work in Cognitive Systems from the University of North Texas, and a D.Min. from the Wagner Leadership Institute. He has co-authored six books along with Rebecca Wagner Sytsema: Possessing Your Inheritance (Renew Books), Receiving the Word of the Lord and Ridding Your Home of Spiritual Darkness (Wagner Publications), The Future War of the Church (Renew Books), The Best is Yet Ahead (Wagner Publications) and When God Speaks (Wagner Publications). He has also co-authored The Worship Warrior (Regal Books) with John Dickson, and Restoring Your Shield of Faith (Regal Books) with Robert Heidler (Dec 2003 release).
He and his wife Pam live along with their five children in Denton, Texas.
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| Dr. Dutch Sheets |
| A.A., D.D. |
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 Dutch Sheets is the senior pastor of Springs Harvest Fellowship in Colorado Springs, CO. He has served on the faculty of Christ for the Nations Institute, and is currently an instructor for the Christian Life School of Theology. He serves as an advisor on the National Board of Aglow International, serves as a guest lecturer at the Fuller Theological Seminary and the Wagner Institute. The author of two highly regarded books, "Intercessory Prayer" and "The River of God", Dutch travels extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, Africa and much of Europe teaching and ministering to the body of Christ. Dutch, his wife Ceci, and daughters Sarah and Hannah make their home in Colorado Springs. |
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| Dr. Tim Sheets |
| A.A., B.Th., D.D. |
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 Dr. Sheets has been senior pastor at the Living Word Church in Middletown, Ohio since 1979, when he graduated from Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, TX. He received his Doctorate of Divinity in 1992 from Christian Life School of Theology based in Columbus, GA, where he is a traveling Instructor. Dr. Sheets is the author of "Heaven Made Real", an overview of Heaven, providing answers to what Heaven is like based upon the witness of Scripture. "Armed & Battle Ready", equipping the church to evangelize the gospel, and "Being Led by the Spirit." This book will teach you how to listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit and experience a fresh presence of the Lord as Dr. Sheets demonstrates. Pastor Sheets is a spirit filled apostle of the living God, who desires to minister to pastors and leaders and to raise up people who will authentically demonstrate the church of Jesus Christ on earth. |
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| Barbara Yoder |
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 Barbara J. Yoder is the founder and senior pastor of Shekinah Christian Church, a racially and culturally diverse church in Ann Arbor, MI. Known for her cutting-edge prophetic ministry, Barbara travels extensively within the US and abroad, ministering in churches, conferences, and seminars. In recent years she has been instrumental in helping to bring together the ministries of the prophetic movement and the prayer movement in order to see the church advance through the world. |
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