Allen Hood P.O. Box 805 Grandview, MO 64030

Allen and Rachel are amazing people as you already know. They obviously have unusual leadership abilities.  Allen is Associate Director of the entire Missions Base as well as the Director of Forerunner School of Ministry, a full time bible school.  In the school he is training hundreds of leaders from all over the world and is equipping short and long term missionaries.  Allen provides excellent leadership abilities for the operation of the Mission Base, but also serves the churches of Kansas City by leading intercessory meetings for revival in the USA and the nations.  He is a servant with unusual faithfulness and character whom God has seasoned and prepared through many years for such a time as this. 

We currently have a full time staff of over 400 people who each raise their financial support as missionaries.  We view ourselves as intercessory missionaries who labor for the Great Harvest through a commitment to continual prayer and fasting.  One of the top hindrances for young people to enter the mission field is school debt.  The Forerunner School of Ministry is committed to train up the next generation of missionaries without this hindrance.  Thus, we continually seek to keep tuition as low as possible and give tens of thousands of dollars away in scholarships each year as well as our leaders and instructors serve sacrificially because of their zeal to train missionaries that live lives of prayer, fasting, and evangelism.

As with everyone who is part of the International House of Prayer team, Allen and Rachel are committed to raising their own support.  I recommend this couple as faithful servants of the Lord Jesus and of us, and I invite you to prayerfully consider how you can invest into the commission God has given us to further the Kingdom by supporting them. 

Our staff is doing missionary work in the following 5 ways:

1. Prayer - by doing the hard work of prayer and fasting for the release of the Harvest locally and in the nations (Matt. 9:37-38). Also, by providing diligent prayer covering for missionaries currently on the missions field. Night and day prayer with fasting is a primary Scriptural requirement for the release of revival and the Great Commission. 

2. Outreach ministry – to the poor, sick, and needy locally and abroad.

3. Training – we have extensive programs to train missionaries desiring to be sent to the nations.

4. Short-term mission trips – our team serve other missionary works across the nations. 

5. Being sent - personally relocating to other nations as long-term missionaries.

We require that all our full-time staff missionaries commit themselves to at least 50 hours per week of dedicated service.  This includes helping to lead prayer and worship meetings, training missionaries and leaders, evangelism, outreach to the poor, administration of the Missions Base, etc.  Our missionaries maintain a rigorous prayer life with regular fasting as they serve the poor, sick, and needy in our outreaches.