Testimonies

Nate Hunt - Bass
Follow Nate on Twitter - N8rHunt
Nate Hunt grew up in Muscatine, Iowa and came to IHOP in July 2008. His passion is to know Christ and make Him known through prayer, singing, playing, and preaching His beauty until every tribe, tongue, people, and nation have heard the true gospel.


Without a doubt, the best reason to donate an important internal organ is to save a loved one's life.  But if you've never visited Israel and after trying every other means to raise the funds, you're still coming up short, then it's well worth it to donate a kidney to get over there.  I heard once you can get up to $50,000 for donating one, so that should be more than enough to cover a trip for you and perhaps a small youth group.

Grossness aside, if you haven't been to Israel, you're missing out on one of life's top three experiences.  The other two are coming to your first onething conference (a.k.a. feeling God's tremendous love for you for the first time) and getting married (a.k.a. the height of human love).  Since two of these top three life experiences happened for me in 2012, I guess 2013 will be a little boring in comparison, unless God really has something up His sleeve, perhaps in the major signs and wonders category.

Lisa Gottshall - Worship Leader, Singer
Lisa's personal blog: www.lisagottshall.com 
Follow Lisa on Twitter: @LisaGottshall
Lisa grew up in Elverson, PA and moved to IHOP in August 1998. Her desire is to be a singing theologian who sings songs that open deep places in people's hearts to Jesus, brings deliverance from lies (Ps. 119:130), and releases judgment on the kingdom of darkness (Ps. 149).


For me, 2012 was about ABIDING. 

In numerous ways, my heart felt stretched like a rubber-band that was about to… well, snap, or cease to be a functional rubber-band.  Not from trauma or tragedy.  Just pressure—bad pressure like perfectionism, and good pressure like purification.

At one point the bad pressure was so bad that I dreaded each day. Who’s excited to live when you feel like a failure? Not me. One day after weeks of this depression, God tenderly reminded me that I had slipped into the Ephesian pitfall: I had lost my First Love.

Luke Beal - Singer
Luke Beal hails from El Dorado, KS. He moved to Kansas City with his wife SaVannah and daughter Avery and began the Intro to IHOP internship in January 2012. Luke loves God's Word and is committed to being a Spirit-led prophetic voice that communicates the Father's heart and proclaims the second coming of Jesus.

Jonathan Rizzo - Worship Leader, Singer
Follow Jon on twitter - @jonathanmrizzo

Sarah Schlemmer - Prayer Leader
Follow Sarah on twitter: @Sarahschlemmer 
Sarah grew up in Whitehall Montana and came to IHOP in January 2005 and completed the Onething Internship. Her desire is to increase daily in the revelation of Jesus through prayer and studying His word, so that she would live a life without mixture and bring glory to His name.

Tom Snow - Saxaphone
Tom grew up in Forte Wayne Indiana and moved to IHOP in August of 2004. His desire is to be great as God sees greatness.



This one is a tough one for me lately since the Lord has been talking to me about unforgiveness. So it's a little personal, but I'll try and generalize.

Over the past 6-9 months I've noticed my relative level of “anger” going up.  It's not a conscious thing, it's a subsurface weed.  My wife will ask, “what's wrong?” and I'll answer, “I don't know.”

Joe Hinkle - Web stream sound technician
Joe was born in Frankfort, Kentucky and moved to IHOP in August of '06.  He's worked in the Media department for almost 4 years


 

Robert Kurtz - Upright bass
Robert grew up in Lindenhurst (Chicago), IL and moved to IHOP in January 2010 where he now attends the Forerunner Music Academy. His passion is to increasingly know and enjoy God & His Word, and to excel as a prophetic instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, & worship leader so that he would be prepared to serve & teach in a house of prayer context long-term in the nation of Spain.

 

Justin Rizzo - Worship Leader
Follow Justin on Twitter - justinrizzoihop
Justin grew up in Lockport, New York and moved to IHOP in January 2004 where he completed the onething internship. His desire is to minister in the house of the Lord by singing and proclaiming the Word of God and to see thousands impacted with the gospel. 


I was born in the Buffalo New York area where I was raised as a pastor’s kid. I had a very musical family and parents that believed in prayer! I know for sure that their countless prayers for me are the primary reason why I have stayed close to the Lord through the years.

Jennifer Sarver – Team administrator
Jenn's personal blog - http://jenncsarver.wordpress.com
I grew up in Fort Collins, CO and moved to IHOP in August of 2008. I love the prayer movement and I am a deeply committed to the unification of the Body of Christ through the marriage of worship and intercession.