What Is A Missions Base?

My friend Cindy asked about our Missions Base so I decided to answer it in a blog. Back in April 2000 Carlos and I started our church. In 2005 we began taking our church toward becoming a missions base.

What does our Missions Base encompass?

The Prayer Room,Living Waters Fellowship (church), CEC (Children's Equipping Center), Orlando Forerunner School of Ministry (FSM -Orlando), The West Orange Food Pantry, JOCO (marketplace ministry) and Remnant Youth

The central facet of the OHOP Missions Base is the vision of the International House of Prayer as a 24-hour a day Prayer Furnace for the city of Orlando and the surrounding suberbs. The Missions Base in Orlando is committed to developing forerunners committed to prayer, fasting, and the Great Commission.

The Missions Base is currently adding staff that have raised their own support and given their lives to wholehearted passion for Jesus expressed in extravagant devotion. In spite of the reality of their own human weakness, with hearts that are rooted and grounded in love, these missionaries ask the Lord to move upon hearts, change the atmosphere of the city, and turn the nations of the earth to Jesus.

The Prayer Room of OHOP is the heartbeat of all that goes on at the Missions Base. OHOP - is a ministry serving the entire Metro ORLANDO area. The prayer room is designed for any person or group desiring to come and worship and pray individually and/or corporately. Structured in multiple two-hour prayer meetings a week, teams of musicians, singers, and intercessors lift their voices in praise and supplication, asking God to fulfill His promise and give the nations of the earth to Jesus as His inheritance. Each prayer meeting functions with live worship teams in one of four formats including devotional worship, prophetic worship, worship with the word or apostolic intercession with fasting for corporate breakthrough, city transformation, and revelation of Jesus Christ in the earth.

Why 24/7 worship and prayer?

Jesus said the harvest is plentiful, so his disciples should pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers. When our hearts deeply experience the love of God in the place of worship and intercession, we are strengthened and empowered to give ourselves to the labor of the work of the Kingdom with greater diligence, authority and power.

24/7 worship and prayer will change the spiritual atmosphere of the city, thus opening the heavens for more anointed and effective evangelism to the lost and unity in the Church. We believe that the Holy Spirit is orchestrating a global prayer strategy far eclipsing any other prayer movement in history resulting in an unprecedented harvest of souls throughout the earth.

FACETS

24/7 Harp & Bowl Worship & Intercession - A 24-hour, citywide prayer ministry, serving the body of Christ in the region fashioned in the spirit of the Tabernacle of David. The focus is to rend the heavens over the region so that Glory of God can invade every facet of the society inside and outside the church, breeding revival in the church and reformation in the world.

Internships - Multiple intensive discipleship programs that focus on 18-25 year olds who desire to intimately know the fullness of the love, power and character of God. Training includes classroom instruction, personal discipleship and hands-on ministry with blocks of time spent in the prayer room.

Encounter Services - Weekly God encounters designed to demonstrate the power of God to the lost as well as equip the believer in passion for Jesus. Each meeting is designed to be a heaven opening event in which the direction of the Holy Spirit is esteemed and reverenced.

Fasting Teams - Staff members and interns live lifestyles of prayer and fasting. Night and day prayer empowered through lifestyles of fasting enables believers to experience the reality of the kingdom come on earth.

Prophetic Teams - Gifted teams who specialize in prophetic evangelism as well as prophetic ministry to the body of Christ. Ministering by the unction of the Holy Spirit, God is glorified and people are edified through accurate and properly administered prophetic revelation.

Outreach Teams - Teams bring the power of God to the public, locally and internationally, by sharing the message of the love of God accompanied by healing, signs, wonders and miracles. Outreach to the poor and needy is at the center of the heart of the Lord.

Intercessory Missionaries - Part-time and full-time, volunteer staff positions. Each staff member goes through an application process of approval. Staff will spend a percentage of time in the prayer room. The remainder of their time will be spent in ministry and administrative functions.