Welcome To
The Pastors' Prayer Summit Chicago 2018

Bishop Arthur Guice
Senior Pastor, Spirit of Liberty Church of God, Markham, IL

Bishop Arthur Guice, (affectionately known as Brother Guice), is a man who is deeply committed to fulfilling the “Great Commission” of our Lord Jesus Christ, to make disciples of the nations as noted in Matthew 28:18-20.

A graduate of Elmhurst College, Arthur was called into full-time ministry in 2003 and was installed as the Senior Pastor of Spirit of Liberty Church of God, Markham, IL. His wife Felicia worked faithfully by his side in the growth of the ministry until her untimely death in June of 2006.

He is also actively involved in the work within the Church of God, Cleveland, TN being appointed as the Prayer Coordinator over the Great Lakes Region the past four years. His additional ministerial functions include serving as the Illinois Coordinator of Cry Out America, a grass roots prayer movement under the auspices of the National Day of Prayer Task Force that is dedicated to seeking a Christ Awakening and Transforming revival in America.

Pastor Guice has an anointing to teach and preach the Word of God uncompromisingly with simplicity and accuracy. He is a noted speaker for conferences, seminars and workshops throughout the Chicagoland area as well as across the U.S.

Pastor Corey B. Brooks
Founder and Senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago

Pastor Corey B. Brooks, more commonly known as the Rooftop Pastor is the founder and senior Pastor of New Beginnings Church of Chicago. The non-denominational Christ centered safe haven located in the heart of the Woodlawn neighborhood he resides in on Chicago’s Southside. A native Hoosier from Muncie, Indiana Pastor Brooks attended Ball State University and began his life in ministry at the age nineteen. He traveled to Florida for Law School and after one year his journey continued to Texas, where he attended the Dallas Theological Seminary. In 1992 he was called to ministry in Richmond, Indiana, as the head Pastor of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church. In 1997, the journeyman was called to Pastor The West Point Missionary Baptist Church of Chicago, this opportunity was his first glance at the despair in the city of Chicago. Three years later Pastor Brooks founded New Beginnings Church of Chicago (11/2000). In the purest living example of our Lord and Savior, Pastor Brooks and his wife Delilah have fully invested in the community plagued by violence and hopelessness. Together they opened a K-12 school on the church property, which served hundreds of children from community until it’s closing in the year 2015. Together they continue to mentor, support and lead through Project H.O.O.D. (Helping Others Obtain Destiny), a registered non-profit organization whose mission is “to empower people with the guidance, information and tools necessary to become peacemakers, problem solvers, leaders and entrepreneurs in their communities.” His transparent leadership and teaching style has positively impacted the entire city of Chicago, his motto austere, “It starts with us”.
Pastor Brooks is a visionary, mentor, businessman, activist and philanthropist to all. He is accessible, humble and always working to eradicate violence and build communities one block at a time. His tireless efforts garnered a global audience, when he spent 94 days living atop the roof of the now demolished Super Motel; the epicenter of drugs, prostitution and violence. The goal was simple, to purchase the crime riddled facility, tear it down and build a community center to create leaders, strengthen character and be a safe haven to the often violent streets. Soon, thereafter, he furthered his selfless commitment by walking across America, from New York to Los Angeles bringing greater awareness to gun violence, a feat that took him away from his wife, four children, church and home for four months.
Recently, Project H.O.O.D. was gifted a vacate Walgreen’s building, located just four blocks north of the church he began and the rooftop he called home. The 20,000 square foot facility is under renovation and will served the community as The Project Hood Leadership & Economic Opportunity Center that is scheduled to open in the summer of 2017.
AWARDS & RECOGNITONS
• Appointed Director for Illinois Tollway Board 2016
• Best Community Leader of the Year Award by The Steve Harvey Ford Neighborhood Awards
• Chicago Defender’s Newsmaker of the Year
• Chicago Urban League’s Top Innovator Award
• Ministered Pastors and Leaders Conference (Bishop TD Jakes)
• Featured Story on TBN
Currently in production for a weekly series “New Beginnings” TLN Network

David Bryant
Founder, The Christ Institutes and Proclaim Hope!

Over the past 40 years, David Bryant has been defined by many as a “messenger of hope” and a “Christ- proclaimer” to the Church throughout the world. Formerly a pastor, minister-at-large with the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, president of Concerts of Prayer International (COPI) and chairman of America’s National Prayer Committee, today David provides leadership to PROCLAIM HOPE! whose mission is to “foster and serve a nationwide Christ-awakening movement” (www.ProclaimHope.com).
For decades David played a widely visible role in the emergence of an unprecedented, worldwide prayer
movement by capitalizing on city-wide mass prayer rallies; national and international conferences; training videos, seminars and manuals; development of leadership coalitions; the mentoring of younger leaders; and media outreach (both TV and radio).
Among his writings are five key books: In the Gap: What It Means To Be a World Christian; With Concerts of Prayer: Christians United for Spiritual Awakening and World Evangelization; The Hope at Hand: National and World Revival for the 21st Century; and Messengers of Hope: Becoming Agents of Revival for the 21st Century; and Christ Is ALL! A Joyful Manifesto on the Supremacy of God’s Son.
Since 2010 David has conducted an ambitious outreach to encourage Christ Awakening movements, nationwide and beyond, called The Christ Institutes (TCI). The goal is: “Exploring and Experiencing the Spectacular Supremacy of God’s Son“. A follow-up companion to the TCI course is David’s Christ Is ALL! (with over 500,000 Mandarin versions alone being used to train Chinese church leaders). TCI has been professionally filmed and now is presented as The Christ Institutes Video Training Series (involving over 3000 graphics throughout the nine sessions.)
In conjunction with the TCI project, David and his team currently are spearheading a first-ever website, www.ChristNow.com. This web outreach provides a central hub for ever-expanding free resources,
including teaching videos on the vastness of Christ, Christ-exalting worship music, video testimonies about personal awakenings to Christ, blogs on our Lord's reigning majesty and more. PLUS, a free one-of-a-kind, eight- week daily email video series to help Christians spend a few minutes a day focused on the spectacularly supreme Son of God. CHRISTNow.com is serving a growing nationwide Christ Awakening movement.
David and his wife Robyne were high school sweethearts in their hometown, Massillon, Ohio. They now call metropolitan New York/New Jersey their home. Their three grown children, Adam, Bethany and Benjamin, were adopted as infants from India.

Dr. John Fuder
Founder and Director, Heart for the City

Dr. John Fuder is the Founder and Director of Heart for the City. Doc Fuder's passion to teach and train others to engage the city comes from his many years of experience in ministry in California and training students in Urban Studies at Moody Theological Seminary.  Now Doc Fuder is equipping the broader body of Christ to engage more deeply in contextualizing the Gospel in their local communities. He has also been leading the PrayChicago movement that began in 2014 and still growing today. He holds a B.R.E. from Prairie Bible College, an M.A. in Religion from Pepperdine University and a Ph.D. from Biola University. He and his wife, Nellie, have three children and a granddaughter and live on Chicago's north side.

Donna J. Schambach
President, Schambach Ministries International and Schambach Foundation

Pastor David Beidel
Founder and Lead Pastor, New Hope Community Church
Founder and Director, Saturate NY

Rev. David Beidel has lived in Staten Island, NY, for most of his life. In 1990, he and his wife, Rebecca, started a church in their home in New Brighton, a crime-ridden community in Staten Island. Twenty-five years later, New Hope Community Church and Urban Hope NYC are a beacon of hope and a healing sanctuary among the West Brighton Housing Projects and on the North Shore of Staten Island, where David and Rebecca continue to serve that community faithfully.

Rev. Beidel spearheads the Acts 1:8 “Saturate” initiative. This collaborative strategic approach facilitates strategic regional ministry to: Jerusalem” (zip codes), “Judea” (Public Schools), “Samaria” (NYC Housing Projects) and “the ends of the earth” (local ethnic enclaves).

In addition to his role as pastor/teacher, David is an anointed psalmist and guitarist, having penned numerous songs of worship. Many of his songs have been recorded on three worship albums featuring New Hope’s worship team, Fragrance, A Pleasing Offering and Magnificent Obsession. Pastor Dave also often leads the worship team at New Hope.

Pastor Dave’s has also ministered in Central Asia, Nigeria and Hyderabad India where New Hope has planted a daughter church. Driven by God’s promises in Isaiah 35, Pastor Dave longs to see “the desert and the parched lands” of New York City and the ends of the earth flowing with streams of Living Water.

David, his beloved wife Rebecca and their four children, Julianne, David, Emily, and Caleb, live in Staten Island’s West Brighton neighborhood.

Founder and Lead Pastor of New Hope Community Church (www.newhopesi.com)
Founder and President of Urban Hope NYC (www.urbanhopenyc.org)
President of the Staten Island Association of Evangelicals (www.NewLife4SI.org)
Founder of Staten Island Evangelical Relief Alliance (SIERA)
Founder and Director of Saturate NYC (www.SaturateNYC.org)
Author of: “Samaria, The Great Omission” and “Saturation, A Plan for Gospel Immersion” and the “Six weeks to Saturate” Bible study.
Author of: “Magnificent Obsession” (song and worship album)

Pastor Jonathan Brooks
Senior Pastor, Canaan Community Church, Chicago, IL

At its peak, Englewood, a Chicago neighborhood had a population of 97,000 people. Due to a crumbling infrastructure and a crime index number among the highest in the country, this neighborhood has declined in population to a mere 30,000. While the trend in this neighborhood has been to get out of poverty and leave the city behind, Jonathan Brooks is one of the exceptions. He serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in West Englewood, Chicago City Director for Mission Year a one year service learning program for young people ages 18-30, an adjunct professor for Chicago Semester, an off-campus program with 40 years of experience providing students the opportunity to live, learn, and work in Chicago and has taught elementary arts education in inner city Chicago for over a decade.  
As a firm believer in investing in the community you grew up in, Jonathan has a deep desire to impress this virtue on the students and young people in his congregation, classroom and community. Through various community partnerships, Canaan provides youth development, holistic health options, college scholarships, music lessons and continual support to the incarcerated and their families living in Englewood and other Chicago communities.
Pastah J, as he is affectionately called, is a sought after speaker, writer and artist.  Along with numerous blogs and articles he has contributed to two books "Banned Questions for Christians" by Christian Piatt and "Making Neighborhoods Whole" by John Perkins and Wayne Gordon and is presently writing his first book to be published by Intervarsity Press tentatively tilted “Church Forsaken.” He is also featured on Canaan’s debut gospel album called "Recommend Jesus" which is used as an avenue to share faith as an integral component in community transformation. Lastly, Pastah J has also recorded four hip-hop albums with the group Out-World and is currently working on his solo project titled "Can I Get an Amen".  
Jonathan has a Bachelor of Architecture from Tuskegee University, Master of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University and Master of Divinity from Northern Seminary in Christian Community Development. He hopes to merge his academic knowledge, practical tools and ministry training in order to turn his convictions into tangible solutions which will help change the Greater Englewood neighborhood for future generations.
Jonathan and his wife, Micheal, have two beautiful girls, Jasmine and Jade, and reside in West Englewood steps away from the church campus.
Jonathan Brooks aka "Pastah J" serves as Senior Pastor at Canaan Community Church in the West Englewood community on Chicago’s south side as well as the Chicago City Director for Mission Year. Jonathan believes transformation comes through awareness, activism, artistry and authentic association and that more people raised in under resourced communities need to return and invest in those communities. Jonathan has a deep desire to impress this virtue on the young people in his congregation, classroom and community. As a sought after speaker, writer and artist he has contributed to numerous blogs, articles, albums and books and is set to release his first book published by Intervarsity Press in Fall 2018, tentatively titled “Church Forsaken.” Jonathan and his wife, Michéal, have two beautiful girls Jasmine and Jade and reside in West Englewood on the same block as the church campus.

Nicole C. Mullen
Singer, Songwriter, Speaker, Business Woman and Mentor

Few artists in any genre of music possess a more diverse resume than Nicole C. Mullen. Songwriting has always been one of Mullen’s most treasured gifts, and through infusing scripture into the songs she writes, she’s used it as a vehicle to encourage, inspire and to teach. From her early days as a background vocalist/dancer/ choreographer to writing and recording such classic hits as “Redeemer” to mentoring young women through her Baby Girls Club, Mullen’s creativity and compassion have fueled a life of ministry that has had global
impact. Mullen has long channeled her considerable energy into not just sharing the gospel, but living it.
This has never been more evident as Nicole mentors youngsters in her Baby Girls Club, “Mentorship is our way of investing in young people with the hope of Christ and practical experiences,” says Mullen. “We've also had the opportunity to help others around the world set up similar clubs. We've started a Baby Girls and Champions club in the country of Belize, and a like model in Zambia; with hopes of further expansion. I believe we have a great opportunity to affect the future of our nation and the future of our world.
Mullen has long been known as an undeniably talented artist who is unafraid to be vulnerable and transparent with her audience. That sincerity and artistic integrity have been recognized with two Grammy® Award nominations and seven Gospel
Music Association Dove Awards, including two Female Vocalist of the Year honors, Song of Year for “Redeemer, and On My Knees”, Songwriter of the Year and the Urban Album of the Year for “Everyday People ”, Contemporary Song of the year (Call on Jesus), and the first African American to win Songwriter of the Year. She has toured all over the globe, becoming a highly sought after speaker and singer, and has frequently graced the stage at Billy Graham and Women of Faith events.
A Greater plan has taken Nicole C. Mullen down many interesting roads and encompassed a variety of roles. She’s a mother, singer, songwriter, speaker, and a successful business woman as well as a mentor. “I really feel like God set his love upon me at an early age and it was something that I could not have earned. I didn’t deserve it. I was not talented enough to merit His gaze, but He gave it to me. By this I am reminded of his love towards all of us. Like the Bible says, ‘while we were yet sinners, He died for us.’ I love and worship Him because He loved me first.”