Rob and Fran Parker are the founders and Directors of NHOP. They heard the call to create an "Embassy of Prayer" in the nation's capital on Canada Day - July 1st, 2000 after Rob had made a 73 day Prayer Walk from Calgary to Ottawa. After several years of sharing the vision with other leaders across the nation they moved to the capital in 2004 to begin establishing a ministry that would mobilize prayer for government.
Rob is originally from Victoria, B.C. and had a career as a paramedic working both in the Canadian Arctic and the Saharan desert before studying at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland and returning to pastor a church in his home city. Fran was born in Calgary but raised in Cape Breton and served in the health care field, while working alongside her husband with the Baptist congregation in Vernon, B.C. They live in Aylmer, Quebec with their dog - Oakley, and have two adult children, Andrea who is married to Spencer and Rob Jr. who is married to Brandy.
Our Staff
When you visit the National House of Prayer you will meet other key members of our staff. Some of them are in the Kitchen, the office or serving as Prayer Missionaries. At other times you will meet interns or others who are doing a short term work program with us.
It takes a whole team to deliver the ministry that God has called us to do in our nation's capital.
