John D. Robb
John D. Robb is a veteran church leader and global prayer organizer. He served as chairman of the International Prayer Council and led World Vision’s prayer ministries. He helped guide the World Prayer Assembly in Jakarta in 2012 and now chairs the Transformation Prayer Foundation, helps run the National Prayer Assembly (USA), and works with other international prayer and humanitarian efforts.
Robb has been a field missionary, pastor, seminary teacher, researcher, and author. He led three large international prayer initiatives: the AD2000 and Beyond Movement’s Unreached Peoples Track, the Great Commission Roundtable, and the International Prayer Council. With World Vision, he traveled widely, holding trainings in more than 100 countries and organizing interdenominational prayer in over 60.
In Los Angeles, he founded LIFT (Lifting Intercession for Transformation) and helped develop the Hollywood Transformation Coalition for Hollywood and the entertainment industry. He has lectured at Fuller Theological Seminary.
As International Facilitator of the World Prayer Assembly, he helped focus on global issues and on fulfilling the Great Commandment and Great Commission. He helped launch the Global Day of Prayer, uniting hundreds of millions of Christians in prayer. The IPC also led Global Children in Prayer Consultations in 2006, 2008, and 2013, and united prayer efforts with United Nations initiatives beginning in 2007 and continuing in 2009 and 2013.
The 2012 World Prayer Assembly in Jakarta brought 9,500 leaders from 86 nations, with 100,000 praying in the stadium and millions more connected online. This work helped spark the Uprising youth prayer movement, beginning with a World Youth Prayer Assembly in 2009 and growing in 2016.
Robb has been married for 50 years, with three adult children and three grandchildren. He enjoys reading, walking, skiing, sailing, traveling, and meeting people from diverse cultures.
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