24-7 Prayer International Team Leader

Pete Greig is a writer, pastor and teacher, with a particular heart for the emerging culture. He is one of the catalysts behind Campus America and serves as the International Team Leader of 24-7 Prayer, a global, interdenominational prayer and missions movement. Pete is also the Director of Prayer for Alpha International and a Visiting Lecturer at St Paul’s Theological Center, in London. Pete enjoys alternative music, soccer, hill walking, and spicy Indian cuisine. His books include ‘Red Moon Rising: The Adventure of Faith and the Power of Prayer’, ‘The Vision: A Call to Discipleship’, and ‘God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer’. Also, Pete is the Pastor of Prayer at Holy Trinity Brompton, London.

 

Campus America Leadership Team

David and Molly Blackwell are from Chicago, Illinois. He and his wife Molly have been married for 7 years and have two boys, a 5-year old named Sam and a 2-year old named Will. Over the last 6 years, David has helped to pioneer and lead 24-7 Prayer USA, and the Kansas City Boiler Room community. He loves raising chickens (that's right, I said chickens), is a connoisseur of good food (particularly his wife's and any restaurant that is not a chain), and is on a mission to play golf in as many states as he possibly can. (Also, David is content with the fact that golf is rather dorky and is rarely included in a person's bio.)




Casey and Amy Johnson and their three children, Kainan, Millie, and Judah, moved to Kansas City from Bakersfield, California in the summer of 2007. While serving as missionaries in Spain a number of years ago, the Johnsons encountered the 24-7 Prayer movement in its early days, and their hearts resonated deeply with the vision and values of the 24-7 tribe. A visit to England sealed the deal for them, and ever since, they have carried and served the vision of 24-7 Prayer. Now, as part of the Kansas City Boiler Room, Casey manages the Operations of 24-7USA/Campus America.

Dave and Peg Konkol have led a number of prayer initiatives in Madison, Wisconsin and believes Campus America is an answer to the prayers of the Baby Boomer generation.  Dave and Peg were missionaries with Operation Mobilization for 8 years and lived in the UK, where Dave served as Communications Director for OM.  Dave and Peg have been on several church planting teams and love to love on people.  Dave also loves to write, think Big Picture, encourage others, and fish for trout.  Peg is an editor, a great cook, loves to open her life and home to others, and comes from Fun Country.  Dave and Peg have three sons.  The Konkols relocated from Wisconsin to Kansas City in July 2009.


Trent and Bronwyn Sheppard live in Boston, Massachusetts, and they are new, proud parents of a baby girl named Miréa Alev. Before moving to Massachusetts in 2007, Trent and Bronwyn lived and worked in the United Kingdom with Youth With A Mission. Bronwyn recently completed her Master's degree in International Development at Clark University, and Trent (M.A. Wheaton College) gives part of his time as teaching pastor at STATUS, as well as traveling widely to teach in student settings that stretch from Austin, Texas to Cairo, Egypt.  Alongside their studies and teaching, Bronwyn is training to become a doula and Trent just wrote a book - God on Campus (IVP) that traces the God-history of campuses in America. 
  

Mobilizing Students

Wendy Andrews hails from Madison, Wisconsin, where she earned a degree in Social Welfare and served for 3 years as the coordinator of a discipleship training community at a thriving young church. Early in 2005, God led Wendy into the wildfire movement of 24-7 Prayer in the USA, helping to catalyze prayer across the country. Based in Kansas City and part of the Boiler Room Core leadership and family there, Wendy oversees the Communications of Campus Americaand is happily responsible for recruiting most of the team who serve the Campus Americamovement. She has a particular love for East Asia, women, and the inner city, and in her spare time, she loves long conversations with good friends, gardening, canning, cooking and running. 


Allison Riggs was born and raised in Ohio, grew up on Brookside dairy farm and is a graduate of The Ohio State University. As a student, she was part of mobilizing campus-wide prayer at OSU and establishing a house for prayer and community on campus called LoveOSU that continues today. Alongside her work at OSU, Allison helped catalyze prayer on multiple campuses throughout Ohio, and in Spring 2007 networked 17 different colleges and universities together to pray continually for 40 days - they called it Campus Ohio. She's been living in Kansas City since Summer 2007, connecting and developing statewide movements of student prayer.


Ryan Riggs was born to be wild(er).  He grew up in Oklahoma and South Carolina, lived for 7 years in Texas working with Youth With A Mission (YWAM), and is now based in Kansas City.  Ryan has traveled to nearly every State in America, challenging students to know Jesus in the place of prayer and to follow Him to those who don't yet know Him.  He is currently co-leading The Wilder Project with Lindsay Ellyson, dreaming God's dream over campuses in America to see bands of friends pray and obey like never before.  Once stung by a jellyfish, Ryan gets a kick out of drumming, making people laugh, and playing "old-school" Nintendo.




Lindsay Ellyson got seriously messed up by Jesus in a prayer room during her college years and has never quite been the same since. After getting hijacked into the 24-7 Prayer movement that swept campuses in Ohio and making loads of friends along the way, she graduated from Mount Vernon Nazarene University in 2008 and promptly moved to Kansas City to join the Campus America team. She heads up The Wilder Project along with Ryan Riggs, adventuring with Jesus on campuses all over the nation and encouraging praying students to do the same. She loves feeding people, the great outdoors, and all things multi-cultural.


Dana Hernandez spent her childhood on the sunny Carolina Coast near, beautiful & historically rich, Charleston, SC. Half Cuban, Dana’s heart language is Spanish. The University of Georgia, Athens, received her as a freshman in 1998, and there she encountered the reality of the deep love of Jesus and she has never been the same. Her many adventures with Holy Spirit include: Night & day prayer in tiny prayer rooms around the world & traipsing like a holy vagabond through many Spanish speaking countries.  After a God encounter landed her in the UK then swept her off to the Spanish party island, Ibiza, & helping launch  Tribe Issachar, she got hooked on the upwelling 24-7 Prayer movement.  She has spent the majority of the last 8 years of her life, betwixt Holy Spirit globe trotting expeditions, discipling college students & mobilizing 24-7 prayer on campuses in Georgia. Along with praying & mobilizing prayer, Dana loves seeing people walk in wholeness & the fullness of Christ. In a massive change of seasons the good Lord took Dana on her most recent adventure into a greater role on the national Campus America team in Kansas City, MO.


PRAYER AND WORSHIP SUPPORT & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Anna Walker was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, and she encountered the Living God in a significant way from a young age. At 19, while living in El Paso, TX, she heard God tell her to go to Kansas City. Kansas City quickly became home. In her initial seven and a half years there, she served as a singer at the International House of Prayer, did Master's Commission, a discipleship program, and joined in the pioneering year of what is now 24-7 Transit. From that point, she became irrevocably involved in the Kansas City Boiler Room church family. In February of 2009, Anna once again gave herself to worshiping Jesus full-time. Currently she is the Prayer/Worship experimenter as the Kansas City Boiler Room finds its way into corporate prayer and worship. She also serves Campus America as prayer support for the team. And, to keep herself somewhat rooted to the earth she is also part-time Personal Assistant to David Blackwell and Adam Cox.

Scott Goodner hails from the bustling metropolis of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. God first made his introduction to Scott at a youth camp in the southern hills of his home state and was drawn by a burning in his heart to love God with his whole being.  He attended Oklahoma State University where he collided with the 24-7 Prayer movement and the heart of God to see a worship and prayer movement ignite our nation.  Scott was a founding member of the Jesus House at OSU, where he and several of his friends renovated and converted a beat-up old frat house into a place of prayer, worship, and community.  He received a bachelor of architecture design degree and worked professionally in Oklahoma City for a year before moving to Kansas City to join with the KC Boiler Room and Campus America crew. He currently helps lead the local Kansas City family into the presence of God, and his greatest desire is that people will encounter the Father's great love and begin to worship Him with all their heart, mind, soul and strength. Scott is currently addicted to delicious, steaming vanilla lattes from Broadway Cafe, stormy days, and beautiful post-rock music.
 

Journalism and story-telling

Rachel Wegner grew up in a little Michigan town called North Muskegon on the shores of Lake Michigan. She went on to attend Oral Roberts University, graduating in 2007 with a degree in Journalism. She joined the staff at ORU shortly after and worked as a writer for the university until spring 2009, when God wrecked her heart and told her to move to Kansas City to join the Campus America team. She made the move KC in May 2009 and helps to organize, write and relay the many stories of God's work in the prayer rooms across the college and university campuses of America. She has a passion for telling stories and finds an outlet in doing so via writing, photography, art and music. She also has a festering addiction to sweet tea and an undying love for folk music.

Just 24-7

Amanda Siebold grew up outside of Chicago but now considers Kansas City her home. Working at a domestic violence shelter for five years was the precursor to her current involvement with the modern day abolition movement. Amanda is working with Just 24-7, and as part of her role, she's serving student leaders to pioneer what the marriage of prayer and justice will look like within the Campus America family.



Web Media

Jonathan Boler came to Kansas City from Scotland in 2004 to do 24-7 Transit, and he's been married to his wife Kate for a year. Jonathan is a web developer and can fix just about any computer-related problem. (In fact, he and his friend Max are the masterminds behind most of the website that you are viewing right now!) Jonathan loves to seek God through prayer and the Word of God, and he will talk for hours about the return of Jesus.




Video media

Robert and Andrea Jobe are the minds behind Pivot Films. In their first documentary feature, Against the Wall, Robert created, shot, directed and produced, while Andrea wrote and edited. They’ve used the same combination of roles for the 24-7 Shorts, a documentary series about the international 24-7 Prayer movement, as well as for Immersion, a six-year documentary that is currently in production. Capturing the heartbeat of Campus America in visual format is one of their present undertakings. Robert and Andrea have been married quite a while, work very closely together, currently live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and have three children.
 

Adopt-a-Campus

Julia DeLavergne is co-leading the Adopt-a-Campus initiative along with Dave Konkol, where they involve women and men in the older generation (moms, dads, ministry/church/prayer leaders, and faculty) in Campus America through prayer and supportive roles.  She lives near Columbus, OH with her husband Larry, and they have three children and four grandchildren.  Julia also currently serves and supports the LoveOSU prayer house at the Ohio State University.





Teaching & stewarding the value of Community

Adam and Juli Cox love Jesus, each other, their daughter Liliwyn and new little one on the way.  Adam is one of the founders of 24-7 Transit and team leader of the Kansas City Boiler Room, a Jesus-centered community growing in love for God, one another, and the world.  One of Adam’s passions is seeing and teaching the Bible as the active and unfolding story of God, a holy narrative in which we are all invited to take part.  He enjoys friendship, prayer and dreaming, especially when they all flow together to change the world and make Jesus look great. 


 


Nathan and Marisa Chud proudly hail from south-central Alaska, where they shared their first kiss around 5 years of age.  After marrying in 2002, they traded the mountains for the mid-west, expecting to attend Bible school for a year and be on their merry little way.  Instead, they made some insanely close friendships that eventually emerged into the founding and leadership of the Kansas City Boiler Room.  Marisa received a degree in History & Political Science from UMKC and Nathan is currently one of the older underclassmen around, still finishing his studies.  The Chuds (whose names ironically rhyme with “studs”) see themselves as “some of the many trying to catch the wave of what God is doing with universities in America and around the world."  In August of 2009 that wave took  them to Boston, where they are continuing to serve in raising up a generation made confident before God, vulnerable before one another, and active in establishing His justice in world and an age crying out for meaning. 


Rustin and Laura Carlson founded and led Rock The Nations from 1992 to 1998, mobilizing students nationally to prayer and fasting. Turning to the marketplace, Rustin became a real estate agent in 2000, and then in 2005 he co-founded Public2, a practical daily community expression of business owners cultivating “God-centric activity” in the marketplace. Rustin and his wife Laura relocated to Kansas City from Colorado Springs in the Summer of 2009. They have three children: Josiah and Mekenzie (who are currently university students) and Malachi (who’s 7).