About: What We Do

If you will allow me to act like a football star and talk in the third person for just a second- it help when trying to communicate what one does without always having to say “I” at the beginning of every sentence.

Zack and Carrie Hensley are two missionaries to the city of Kansas City working with an organization called the International House of Prayer . Zack moved to Kansas City from Phoenix Arizona to work with “IHOP” in July of 2002. Carrie moved to KC from Montevideo in August of 2004 to do the same. We are here in Kansas City to give ourselves to a lifestyle of extened prayer, fasting and seeking the Lord through the spiritual disciplines outlined in the New Testement for every beleiver. We are also here to minister, and labor on behlaf of the people of Kansas City and surrounding region.

Zack, Works specifically with teenagers. Being the Director of IHOP’s Awakening Teen Camp, he sees thousands of teens come through K.C. every summer wanting to get an understanding of how God sees them both biblically and presently; giving them a true identity of what it means to be a follower of Christ.

Among planning, organizing, and preaching at such an event, this also means building and pastoring a leadership team of about 50-60 young adults to pour into these teens lives. He takes much time mentoring, and helping them mature into Godly young leaders. A few other bullet points:

• Zack runs IHOP’s Sunday morning teen church service, preaching and and pastoring teenagers weekly
• Zack leads and is starting an inner city outreach to teenagers in downtown Kansas City. This will involve both evangelism, and pastoring teenagers in rough situations long term, and helping them get plugged into churches, and or our teen church on Sundays.
• Zack teaches at The Daniel Academy Jr. High and High School. Teaching their Biblical Worldview class, and Debate teams.

Carrie, works specifically with IHOPU and the Apostolic Preaching Program. (A program she graduated 2 years ago) There Carrie specifically gives herself to the mentoring, equipping, and shepherding young adults in the message of the gospel and how to communicate it to this present generation. She spends time teaching, and training IHOPU college at their practicum course designed to connect their lifestyle to the information about Theology and Message that they are learning in class.

More specifically now, Carrie’s main vocation is as a mother. She has recently realized the infinate blessing of raising up a child in the way of the living God. While her ministry roles still thrive, her desire in this stage of life is to serve and love little Natalie Hensley so as to rear her in the way of Christ. Never has any person been given a blessing as to teach a child how to live life in this age of history.

Zack and Carrie do not get paid for their work. It is primarily from the donations of supporters that they are able to live the life of ministry that they are called to live. With that, they have also taken a vow to live simply, meaning we don’t live outside our needs. Anything extra goes straight to the poor. Financial sheets can be available upon request.

Please consider supporting them in the following ways:

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Pray- Seriously helpful to us.

Invite- As a preacher I’d love to come to any church or ministry that would have me and talk about night and day prayer and how to reach this present generation of teenagers.

Invest- Partner with us through finances. In this day and age I realize everybody has a new way to ask for donations to their ministry/cause/idea/campaign. I will simply say this: Sow into our lives, and we will sow into yours. Any and every type of donation is helpful for us in being able to stay a float financially while giving 70 hours a week to ministry.

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