Antonio and Christelle Baldovinos
Directors
Antonio Baldovinos, founder of the Global Prayer House & The PURSUIT events & schools, has a passion to see people know Jesus Christ as Lord of their life & to know Him intimately. For the past 10 years, Antonio has been leading outreaches with the Impact World Tour, one of the largest evangelistic organizations in the world, with over 100 citywide evangelistic outreaches a year.
Antonio was born in Honduras, Central America & moved to Minnesota, United States in 1984. There he met his beautiful wife Christelle. They have lived in New Zealand, India, & throughout the US & currently live in Alberta, Canada. Together with their 5 children they live in Canada to pioneer & direct the Canadian Impact World Tour office, along with the new Global Prayer House.
In April 2008 Antonio led the Impact World Tour in an outreach in Kingston, Ontario where over 40,000 people heard the gospel message in 3 weeks & over 3,300 people responded to the Gospel message. Outreaches were held in prisons, surrounding communities, and also bringing a positive message to schools. The tour culminated in the K-Rock Centre with thousands hearing the Gospel message nightly.
On February 18, 2010 the Global Prayer House was dedicated before the Lord with their team & many from the area. They have the mandate of Isaiah 56:7, “My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations”. They believe that God is raising up Houses of Prayer for the nations & whether that mission is in business, church, worship, or in developing nations, the Lord is leading them to serve from the place of prayer! They have called many people to prayer with night & day prayer meetings.
Rick and Judy Sorum
Pursuit Internship
Rick and Judy have been missionaries with Youth With A Mission (YWAM) since 1984 after completing a Crossroads Discipleship Training School in Kona, Hawaii. They have served the mission in Hawaii, Montana, the Philippines and Canada as well as leading many outreaches, primarily to SE Asia.
They both carry a passion for people, especially in the area of being vessels to bring healing to their inner-most being which leads to intimacy with the Lord. They too are passionate for intimacy with the Lord and the Lord has had them on a journey where intimacy is becoming a reality. Another passion they carry is found in Matthew 6:10 “your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven” with an increased faith to believe for the impossible & the supernatural in their lives and the lives of others. The Global Prayer House and the Pursuit conference have had a big influence in their lives in the area of faith and intimacy.
They are serving the Global Prayer House by working with a team of people to lead the Pursuit Internship, a five month DTS which blends the missions movement of YWAM with the prayer movement of International House of Prayer (IHOP) . They believe that God is raising up a generation of world changers – people who pursue God and want more of Him – people who are not satisfied – hungry people! With the converging of the missions and prayer movements, an atmosphere of expectancy is created.
John and Donna Ross
Media
John comes with years of experience in the area of Live Production, producing large scale events for over 20 years. Founders of YWAM's Live Production Course (LPC) in 2002. John and his wife Donna have been missionaries with Youth With a Mission for over a decade, producing events in 5 continents.
As the Production Director for Impact World Tour, their ministry has literally seen thousands of people saved while serving behind the scenes at many events.
Starting sound engineering at the age of 12, John has done countless concerts and events. Their vision statement is “Building the stage God stands on” however they strongly feel God say and emphasise “Its all about the people”. In an industry such as Live Productions, often all that we can see is the equipment or “toys” we either do, or don’t have. John states "I understand everyone out there has a negative story to tell about some conference, concert, stage show or even a classroom lecture that could have been done better. However we must continue to see those situations and events as opportunities for us to “Raise the Standard” of how things are done in the kingdom of God."
Live Production Crew seeks to "build the stage that God stands on".
Serving Worship Leaders, Speakers, Performing teams and community outreaches, the Crew constantly aims for excellence in producing the live performance.
Their skills in sound engineering, lighting, live video, and graphics production as well as stage management are essential for the professional running performances with Impact World Tour and Global Prayer House.
This team whose purpose remains in the shadows, but whose enthusiasm and experience always reflects on stage.
Another goal of Live Production Crew is to train and raise others in the area of production. Through training and mentoring they will build skilled team members for the Prayer House, and to serve the conferences and be "sent out" in outreaches with Impact World Tour in Canada and internationally.
Welcome to Live Production Crew.
Amanda Falk
Worship Ministry
Amanda Falk would like to be known as a worshipper; drawing people into God's presence. Amanda desires to see God's manifest presence to set people free, see them healed, and radically transformed as they encounter God Himself. Her heart is to see many embrace a lifestyle of worship. She is anointed in prophetic worship and gifted in song writing.
Amanda has many accolades, such as 2006 Juno Award- "Best Contemporary Christian Album of the Year". She has gone on to win the GMA Canada Covenant Award for Female Vocalist of the Year for four consecutive years, 2005 through 2008, as well as many others. Even though she has won many awards, her heart is to draw many into true intimacy and bring glory to God.
She has three albums that are must hear, with her latest being "In Between the Now and Then".
We are privileged to have Amanda coming on staff at the Global Prayer House, raising up the next generation of worshippers, leading worship in the prayer room, conferences, and special events.
Aaron and Kendra Melanson
Directors of GX CANADA based out of Alberta, Canada. Born and raised in Canada, they began to dance and break-dance at a young age and use their talents to reach the lost with a message of Jesus.
Throughout their life experiences they dramatically found a passion for Jesus and a passion for others to know Him. Together they have served with GX International and Impact World Tour, both of which are ministries of Youth With A Mission. Since 2001 the Melanson’s have served in hundreds of cities, in over a dozen nations, bringing the Gospel message to thousands of people.
GX CANADA has a partnership with the Global Prayer House as a fueling station of Worship and Intercession to spark intimacy with the Lord. It is from that intimacy that GX CANADA will be strengthened to go out and reach Canada with the Gospel.
GX CANADA is privileged to serve churches, outreaches with Impact World Tour around the world and build up dance teams of all ages and share the clear Gospel message. God has focused their Passion for the lost toward Canada and together they lead GX CANADA, gathering young breakers, skaters, BMXer, DJs, and MCs to offer Canadians a personal relationship with Jesus. God brought them together for a purpose…To bring the gospel to the Nations using Breakdance!




