St. Patrick’s Day Parade Outreach at IHOP-KC

Kansas City has the 3rd largest St. Patrick’s Day parade in the nation.  Around 200,000 people usually attend.  IHOP this year entered a float, and much prayer over the months preceeding the parade was offered up in the prayer room for this huge outreach event.  Over 400 IHOP staff participated.  The plan was the IHOP float would be a mountain with an actor (from IHOP) dressed as St.Patrick standing on the mountain top.  He would then in authentic accent preach 45 second sermons focusing on repentance and coming to Jesus as savior and Lord.  An IHOP worship team was also aboard the float, and when the actor would pause after preaching, the worship team would play a worship song declaring the love of God and the freedom from sin He brings.  400 IHOP staff marched behind the float all in green IHOP logo tee-shirts.  The marchers would sing with the worship team while marching.  Dancing and celebrating His love the marchers waved green and white banners in unison.  It was an awesome site.  The IHOP float with the 400 marchers was the largest entry in the parade with 115 total floats entered.

( You can soon view pictures of the event on our website!!!)

Before and after the parade, the 400 plus staff went out in groups of 3-4 among the gathered crowd.  The IHOP teams did prophetic evangelism,  prayers for salvation, prayers for healing, and sharing testimonies of God’s love and power to set us free from sin.   Many were saved and healed!!!

 The Prayer Room at IHOP is now in it’s 7th year of non-stop live (no recorded music) 24/7 prayer and worship for our city and the cities of the earth.  We now are moving more in our mandate to outreach in the city and beyond.   The “one-two” punch of night and day prayer, coupled with going out to win the lost is a mandate of IHOP.

We are looking forward to more city events we can participate in and bring the power of Jesus Christ.  IHOP is now taking teams to do prohetic evangelism each weekend following our Saturday night services.

Pray for us as we continue to pierce the darkness 24/7 and cry out for revival in our nation.