HOPCC
HOPCC, which stands for House of Prayer Christian Church, is a church group with congregations throughout America. The church is known for its passionate zeal for missions at home and abroad. On Fire Missions has taken an in-depth investigation into this missionary church’s dynamics, ministries, vision, and zeal. HOPCC started in 2004, and it started with a strong vision. In this article, we are going to examine the vision and the creed of this church. From their strong vision and creed, great results have been accomplished through them in the field of missions!
HOPCC’s Creed
At the beginning of HOPCC, the church followed the creed, “To Liberate the oppressed through the power of prayer.” This is the same creed that is used by the US Special Forces. They use the Latin version, which is “De Opresso Liber” these units are specialized forces that are trained in unconventional warfare. They operate behind enemy lines. One of their objectives is to train and arm the local population to defend themselves against tyranny and oppression. And so HOPCC also is similar in that the church’s mission is to train men and women with the power of prayer, transforming them into a “Prayer Force” to go behind enemy lines and liberate oppressed souls through the power of prayer. The Bible says in II Cor 10:3 to 6, “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.” (NIV) HOPCC is fulfilling that creed. Throughout the year’s teams of missionaries have been dispatched to cities, countries, and continents with the special mission of intercessory prayer. Many have been the testimonies of countless people worldwide who have been in contact with the missionaries and have been spiritually liberated and revived by the Prayer Force’s ministry of prayer. Testimonies after testimonies come in how people have been refreshed, revived, and liberated by being in contact with this church’s missionaries.
HOPCC Creed “The Allies are coming”
Another motto that HOPCC has is “the Allies are coming.” This was the common saying of many people that were under Nazi occupation during World War II. The Third Reich took over their country, hoping for their liberation one day by the Allied Forces. When the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, the word spread throughout Europe. In concentration camps, prisons, factories, and entire cities, people would whisper to each other, “the Allies are coming” These words were a message of hope. They were words to keep fighting the good fight of faith and endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, the missionaries from this prayer movement have rallied together in prayer with the vision that all around the world, people of faith are waiting in hope for a mighty liberation from the oppression of sin and carnality. The Bible says in, Rom 8:22 to 23, “We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.” Truly, the vision of the “the Allies are coming” has turned from a dream to a reality. Truly, just as it was during World War II as people eagerly waited for the Allies to come, so has it been on the missionary trips of HOPCC. Many accounts have been reported of people who had prayed and eagerly waited in hope for the Prayer Force to visit them!
Do all the good you can NOW!
On all the Prayer Force magazines printed by HOPCC, you will read another creed of the church inside the opening cover. It reads: Love all the souls we can now! Do all the good we can now! To all the people we can now! In all the ways we can now! In all the places we can now! At all the times we can now! This creed is parallel to the scriptures in Matt 22:37 to 40, “Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” And also, in Deut 6:4 to 6, “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD
is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.” (NIV) Love is the supreme commandment and teaching of the Bible. It is the driving force of Biblical Christianity. And it is the creed that HOPCC follows in missions! Missions cannot be about self, and it has to be about others. It must be motivated by an intense love from within to do good and not evil to our neighbor. Oh, how different the world would be if everyone aimed to live after the creed of “do all the good we can now.” The secret of this creed is in the word “now.” Now in the dictionary is defined as “the present time or moment” Now does not imply the past or the future but right now in the present. So, right now, let us rekindle a zeal for missions in our hearts.
In conclusion, this article has investigated the creed, motivation, principles, and vision of the phenomenal missions-minded church called HOPCC. The main element found is to love God and to love others. Just like the Special Forces has a creed, every mission organization has a creed to be motivated on the mission’s field. On Fire Missions is pleased to discover the creed and vision of this church. We at On Fire Missions hope that this will rekindle a zeal for missions in you!
