Wayne and Ann Hilsden arrived in Israel in 1983 to help establish King of Kings Community in Jerusalem. Although they have handed off the baton of senior pastor to younger leader, Chad Holland, Wayne continues to serve as the president of King of Kings Ministries (a network of more than a dozen congregations) and remains a teaching pastor in the flagship congregation in Jerusalem. www.kkm.network and www.kkcj.org.
Ann is the director of the SUMMIT (formerly known as the Jerusalem Prayer Tower) which is under the auspices of King of Kings.
In 2014 Wayne and Ann recruited a team to establish the Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries (FIRM). www.firmisrael.org. FIRM is an association of more than 60 Israel-based ministry partners that are committed to unity and collaboration to expand God’s kingdom in Israel. Wayne serves as the president of FIRM.
Wayne recently completed his doctorate and is a guest lecturer at the college level.
The Hilsdens have 4 sons and 7 grandchildren.
Prayer Requests:
- Please pray for our prayer SUMMIT. Ann has an urgency in her spirit to hand off the baton to a younger leader in 2022. Please pray that we’ll identify an anointed leader who is passionate about both intercession and worship. (We combine those elements in all our prayer sessions)
- Please pray for six ministries who are now applying to be partners in FIRM. I, as president of FIRM, along with our membership committee, thoroughly vet each organization, and we need discernment to know which ones we can heartily embrace and endorse. Presently, there are over 60 Israel-based organizations that are part of FIRM. Bios of these ministries are at our website: www.firmisrael.com
- Please pray that King of Kings Ministries will be able to reach our goal to pay off our remaining mortgage debt by September, 2022. We've experienced financial challenges during Covid. Pre-Covid we were renting space to 12 congregations in our various facilities in downtown Jerusalem. Most were not able to gather due to restrictions and had to discontinue their rental of space