Who are We?

CRM's Intercession Team exists to champion prayer throughout CRM and beyond. Our diverse team members work and minister worldwide in various capacities with a shared passion for prayer.

	Connie Kennemer Connie and her husband Rex have been on staff with CRM since 1986; prior to that they served as music pastors in a large church in Tucson, Arizona. Connie is a writer, songwriter, speaker and intercessor, using her creative gifts to serve the Body of Christ. Her passion for prayer compelled her to birth CRM’s Intercession Team with the commitment to see CRM become a "praying community." Her challenges with MS and with losing her only son to mental illness have only strengthened her determination to see God at work in a broken world. "Prayer does not equip us for greater works—prayer is the greater work," says Oswald Chambers. Connie sees this as the driving force behind everything that CRM does related to Kingdom building and making Christ renowned among the nations. She joined Moms In Touch International (prayer for children and schools) at the same time she joined staff. Moms In Touch has been Connie’s "school of prayer" and has provided her experience in the basics of prayer and leadership skills that she uses today in directing CRM’s Intercession Team.
	Scott Horn Most of the time, Scott maintains perspective about his real values: being made into the image of Jesus and getting ready for residence in heaven. His wife of 43 years, Delores, calls him forward to this end. She is and has been his key ministry partner for the 42 plus years since Jesus captured their hearts. Scott has a far-sighted perspective that he uses to build the church. This apostolic gifting is complemented by spiritual gifts of prayer and wisdom. Additionally, Scott uses this same gift mix in his role on the CRM Intercession Team. The mantra of Scott and Delores’ ministry is “calling leaders to live like this stuff is really true.” They use the Natural Church Development paradigm of ministry to make this powerful and practical. He loves being the father of three adult sons and twin ten-year-old granddaughters. If you cannot locate him, it is because he is out experiencing the Creator in some local wilderness area on his mountain bike.
	Delores Horn Delores is the happy wife of Scott for 43 years, mother of three grown sons, and grandmother of two wonderful twin granddaughters. She is full time in the ministry with her husband, Scott. They delight in “calling leaders to live like this stuff is really true.” In short, she finds great joy in helping Christian leaders better understand the way God has gifted them and how to more fully be a blessing to God, his Body, and the world in the context of the local church. Another vital aspect of her ministry is being a member of the CRM Intercession team and an advocate of calling people to a closer intimacy with God. Her passion is also to help empower people who can empower people through prayer, to release blockages to intimacy with Jesus thereby representing him more accurately in this world.
	Carolyn Laurin Carolyn serves as both a member of the CRM Intercession team and on the CRM Board of Directors.  “I first began feeling God putting a desire in my heart and a longing for prayer in the 1980’s when I first asked Him ‘to teach me to pray’ as His original apostles had asked Him to do. Shortly after that, Patty Metcalf asked me to be in a Bible Study on prayer called ‘On Holy Ground,’ which was followed by an 18-month, prayer group where five of us prayed weekly and read books on prayer monthly. We also attended seminars on prayer, including some by Peter Wagner of Fuller Seminary. During this time, my intimacy with the Lord grew deeper and deeper and I enjoyed extended times with Him just sitting at His feet and being in His presence. These times became my greatest joy. I also came to love praying with and for others.” Carolyn was asked to participate in on-site intercession for CRM’s first, worldwide conference in Hungary. Then, she led an on-site intercession for a Director’s meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Director’s Meeting in Venezuela; and then another worldwide conference in Venezuela, where she recruited both on-line intercessors and on-site intercessors for these events. She explained the origin of the team, “It was so apparent to me that CRM needed a full-time intercession team with a staff person leading this team, so I began to pray for God to raise up such a team. This was much too big of an assignment for just one person. We needed a team. God answered. Today, we have a team of 14 with Connie Kennemer as the Team Leader. I am blessed to be a part of that team!”
	Marilyn Troyer Marilyn and her husband Stan have been on staff with CRM since 2001, when they joined the National ReFocusing Team. Prayer has always been an integral part of Marilyn’s spiritual life. It was during a CRM Focused Living Retreat that she identified prayer as being a part of her “DNA” and felt God calling her to go deeper in intercessory prayer. Marilyn has served on CRM’s Intercession Team since its inception. She serves as the on-site intercessor for reFocusing training events. Marilyn and her husband have also spent time in Africa (every year since 2004) helping with the newly formed CRM-Africa. She finds the ministry of prayer in Africa a joy and blessing. “I know that God has called me to live out this passion in my family, my community and my ministry,” Marilyn said. “It is fulfilling to serve the CRM community and beyond as an intercessor.” Stan and Marilyn were trained and served in a prayer ministry for fifteen years as pastors in Escanaba, Michigan. As a mentor and a prayer partner, Marilyn has had significant influence on many women in leadership. She enjoys being a part of the lives of her three adult children, their spouses and her five grandchildren’s lives. Stan and Marilyn currently live in Niles, Michigan.
	Judy Reitz Judy said, “Born into a praying family, I have always known how crucial prayer is. But the loss of my husband George drew me into a new prayer arena of personal neediness and hunger. As God has brought broken people into my life, that same hunger wells within me for them. When Connie asked me to consider joining the Intercession Team, I accepted knowing I have much to learn—I am grateful for the privilege of serving CRM in this way and for the fostering of personal growth. Also Receiving Prayer, with its simplicity and power, has been transforming. I took my first training during our Cancer Journey of 2005-06. God has done amazing things! Thank you, Jesus!”
	Diane Moss Diane joined InnerCHANGE—CRM’s Christian Order among the poor—in 1998. This was after earning a BS in Business Management and working in Admin/Accounting for 18 years. Growing up in the South in the 1960’s then moving to Los Angeles just before the L.A. Riots, Diane has a passion for the reconciliation of those profoundly broken by evil. She believes this can only be accomplished through fervent prayer. Moving to Cambodia and living in a rural provincial city brought the Bible to life—reclining at the table, washing feet, the oppression of women and everything being about agriculture were daily experiences as well as seeing idol worship and spiritual warfare. Working with former child prostitutes and those with HIV/AIDS, Diane saw the power of prayer—for individuals and community transformation. Diane joined the Intercession Team to gather with like-minded/called people to intercede both for the workers within CRM and the lost throughout the world they have been called to love.
	Alice Collier  “Prayer is sitting at the father’s feet and listening to His heartbeat," Alice said. "This incredible privilege of intimacy is why I have a passion for prayer. There is no greater calling than to know His heart! His heart is beating for the nations!” Alice said that her passion for prayer began “when I got saved in college, and the Lord put a burden for Japan on my heart. A passion to pray for the nation of Japan consumed me; His love consumed me. I spent hours asking Him for Japan, asking Him for the nations, and it never got old. It still doesn’t!” Alice serves as a missionary in Tokyo, Japan, but describes her main ministry as worship and prayer. She says, “It is such an honor to walk these dark streets in Tokyo and intercede, proclaiming His life to be poured out in revival over this thirsty land. I feel that my God-given purpose is to be a spiritual catalyst in the body of Christ:     • in prayer and worship     • in relationships     • and using media to stir up passion for what God is doing. For me, all of this starts in prayer at His feet.”
	Kelly Humphreys Kelly firmly believes in the “power of prayer,” because she believes in the power of our mighty God. Over her life she has had many good, happy times, but has had plenty of trauma and despair as well; she has seen God pull her out of the bad and deliver her, time and again. She has discovered for herself that God does keep His promises and does listen to prayer. That is why she loves the passage in 1 Corinthians 1 (verses 9-11), where Paul writes about his and Timothy’s suffering, which happens so they would be sure to rely on God; being helped by people’s prayers, resulting in others thanking God. Kelly is excited to be part of seeing God work in people’s lives – as He redeems their suffering as He has redeemed hers – and His getting glory, when she prays. She enjoys all kinds of prayer, such as nature walks, listening prayer, receiving prayer, and intercession (by herself and with others), but especially enjoys having an ongoing conversation with God throughout the day. Kelly and her husband Doug have three children, Matt, Alison and Leah, and live in Escondido, California. Their twins Matthew and Alison are starting college, and Leah is in her junior year of high school. Doug, a pastor and a lawyer, is also in CRM, and is the leader of CRM’s San Diego Communitas team. Doug and Kelly especially enjoy working with younger people, talking about what it means to live an intentional, missional life, encouraging them to start communities of faith.
	Anna Elefson Anna has a passion for prayer because it fuels powerful change in the world, especially among people where there is no other hope. This realization was birthed through living in Indonesia, where her parents ministered to unreached people groups. It has grown through prayer walking in Los Angeles, seeing lives changed through healing prayer, and helping pioneer a prayer ministry. Anna is working towards going overseas, inviting God to use her among hopeless people…especially people groups that have experienced conflict or oppression generation after generation. She believes that it is God’s heart to move powerfully among these people, reconciling them to Himself. She is currently doing life with community in Southern California, and is attending a church in Hollywood called Expression 58.
	Rich and Kimberly Hagler Rich and Kimberly are career missionaries serving with Church Resource Ministries (CRM) in Portland, OR. Their three God-given callings and passions are for 1) Personal intimacy with Jesus and His Body; 2) Making disciples and training leaders to plant house churches in Portland and beyond; and 3) Praying for a personal, city-wide, and national outpouring of the Holy Spirit. They describe praying for CRM, along with these three passions, make being members of the like-minded CRM Intercession Team "a perfect fit." These callings were born out of their life experience, where the Father has been miraculously touching and healing their wounded places, while at the same time, giving them His compassion for and equipping them to minister to others who have been wounded by life circumstances. Because Portland is one of the most post-modern and least-reached cities with the Gospel in the United States (less than 5% of the 2 million residents attend church), they are finding a deep hunger among unbelievers and believers alike for the salvation, healing, deliverance, and freedom that Jesus  promises. Many in Portland who have a passionate desire to live out that abundant life among Christ’s family in intimate missional communities often becoming a part of an “Isaiah 61” type house church that are increasingly being planted by new leaders the Father is equipping and sending out through the Haglers.
	Margaret Tibbott Margaret serves with CRM’s Intercession Team primarily in the Seattle area, but holds a passion to equip Intercessors to pray for kids in schools worldwide. While teaching public school in the greater Los Angeles area, she saw the burdens mothers carry for their children and the incredible task of teachers.  While she always had a longing to communicate with God, the reality of motherhood increased her need to pray and connect with other Christian moms in prayer. Now that she has four kids in neighborhood schools, she partners with Moms-in-Touch International to pray with other moms for their kids and schools, locally and regionally. She naturally teaches what she believes by modeling a lifestyle of seeking God and inviting others to consider being followers of Christ.  Mothers come from a variety of denominations and varying levels of faith, so praying with them for kids is a great discipleship opportunity. She now works to establish prayer groups in every school in the local school district. Her passion to equip leaders in prayer is backed by a heart’s desire for all women to find other moms to share their burden through prayer, and to know their Father’s love more deeply as they seek Him for their children.
	Sharon Fong and Shou Mo Prior to joining CRM, Sharon’s most memorable experiences with the power of prayer happened while she and her husband Shou were missionaries in New Orleans. After Hurricane Katrina, Sharon and Shou were asked to become missionaries and work at the largest relief center on the Gulf Coast where they saw prayers answered daily. They witnessed the power of the Lord as they came alongside local residents, volunteers, and community leaders to not only work, but also pray for the needs stirred up in the midst of relief and recovery in post-Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans. Shou's previous experience working for Habitat for Humanity and World Vision aided in the work set before them. His professional photography experience and Sharon's marketing communications background also helped them share the stories of what the Lord did during that time and mobilized others to join. Today, as members of the Intercession team, they bring their skills and passion for prayer to the team. Sharon is also a marketing communications specialist with CRM's US Ministries. They see convergence happen as the Lord intertwines their work background, experiences in ministry, and passion for prayer. They deeply enjoy being members of the Intercession team.