Original sentence: IHOP-KC is currently under the direction of Mike Bickle.IHOP-KC's staff raises their own financial support as missionaries and approximately 1,500 of their members (staff, students and interns, musicians, intercessors and worship leaders) serve full and part-time where they spend 25 to 50 hours/week in the Prayer Room, classroom and other outreach capacities.Since September 19, 1999, the ministry of IHOP-KC is based on Christian worship and prayer which has continued nonstop, 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week.Staff of IHOP-KC view themselves as “intercessory missionaries” due to their focus on non-stop prayer.The International House of Prayer is an Christian outreach ministry based in Kansas City, Missouri
Edited sentence: About 1,500 people (staff, students and interns, musicians, intercessors and worship leaders) serve full- and part-time investing 25 to 50 hours/week in the Prayer Room, classroom and ministry outreaches.He is the author of Passion for Jesus, Growing in the Prophetic, The Pleasures of Loving God and After God’s Own Heart.Mike Bickle is the director of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City (IHOP–KC).Mike is also the founder of International House of Prayer University, which has a full-time Bible/Ministry, Music and Media school (Media school to open in Fall of 2009).Mike’s teaching emphasizes growing in passion for Jesus through intimacy with God and the end-times.The IHOP–KC staff views themselves as “intercessory missionaries” because they do the work of outreach from a place of 24/7 prayer with worship.The International House of Prayer is an outreach ministry based in Kansas City, Missouri based on worship with intercession which has continued nonstop (24 hours a day) since September 19, 1999.The staff raises their own financial support as missionaries