John D. Robb, Chairman, International Prayer Council

<p>John D. Robb</p><p>Chairman</p><p>International Prayer Council</p><p>John Robb is by heart and calling a missionary since Jesus Christ arrested his attention in a student Bible study/prayer group at Yale University during the late 1960s. After serving as a field missionary for seven years in Malaysia, he went on to lead international mission efforts focused on reaching the unreached peoples in more than 80 countries through World Vision International, the AD2000 and Beyond Movement, and the Great Commission Roundtable. Bringing together national church and mission leaders from many denominations, these Unreached Peoples strategy conferences and consultations produced hundreds of new people group-specific mission networks and prayer efforts. In subsequent years, starting in the early 1990’s, he was led to organize united prayer initiatives in 61 nations, many undergoing the ravages of civil war and other serious traumas.</p><p>During many of those initiatives, he and ministry colleagues, along with participating Christian leaders from across the denominational spectrum, have witnessed God’s wonders--stunning transformational breakthroughs even in hopeless war zones—as His people sought His face and got on His wavelength in repentance, reconciliation and intercessory prayer together.</p><p>To the glory of the Lord, sudden, unexpected peace agreements, six of them in Africa, brought an end to nine hopeless civil wars and ethnic conflicts during or soon after these initiatives. All these initiatives, motivated and carried out with God’s promise of healing and forgiveness (2 Chron. 7:14), were characterized by deep repentance and reconciliation by participating Christian leaders of all denominations and Christian traditions, resulting in the restoration of unity in the Body of Christ. Sometimes, political and military leaders took part, and a number of evil dictators were removed peacefully, sometimes replaced by born-again presidents who themselves got involved in national prayer efforts to bring further healing a