Meet the Team

Blake is joyfully married to Lori and they have five children together. He has been in full time ministry for nearly 40 years as a church planter, pastor, missionary, and mission agency executive. In addition to leading the TWPC team, Blake serves as lead pastor of Faith Community Church in Harrisonburg, VA.

Blake has spiritually invested  in hundreds of leaders in the Middle East since 2001 through training, shepherding, and mentoring; and they in turn are impacting thousands with the grace and truth of Jesus.

Blake is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Asbury Theological Seminary and Regent University. In this final third of life and ministry, Blake is most passionate about sitting at the feet of Jesus and asking “Lord, teach me to pray” and sharing those insights with others.

Ebenezer Murengezi was born in Rwanda. He is married to his friend and ministry partner, Lauren Murengezi, and together they have 5 children. A former refugee for 22+ years in 4 different countries, he has acquired multiple languages (French, Swahili, English, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Kikuyu) and survival skills. Through all things, his faith in Jesus has grown and allowed him to overcome genocide and war trauma. He uses his experience to help the community heal, drawing all people to God. 

​His love for prayer began, at age 6 at the start of the war. Prayer became a matter of survival. Through miracles from answered prayers, God showed himself to him and his family and learned to live only through prayer.

He believes that one cannot achieve intimacy with God without a life centered on prayer. Simply put - prayer is everything as John 15 talks about.

In 2017, God gave him a vision to reach 20 Million souls for Christ, and it was until 2020 that God made it plainly that this vision is to be accomplished through prayer. He moved from Virginia to Maryland to serve at the TWPC to initiate and pioneer this work of intercession for the USA and Nations. 

In addition, he is also a senior pastor at Crossway Christian Church in Spencerville MD, where he is leading a vision of saturating Maryland with churches. All to God be the glory! Amen.

Akram Hadeed is passionate about the Lord Jesus and mobilizing prayer for all people and places. He is a husband to Susie and a father to Jasmine, Sarah and Matthew.

He lives in College Park, MD. Graduated from the University of Maryland with a BS in Computer Science. He worked in technology for 19 years before being called to leave his job in January, 2020 to focus full time on Streets of Prayer. Now he is using his technology skills to build the Streets of Prayer App. The goal of the App is to mobilize every believer in the world to pray for seven and prayer walk their streets so that we can cover every person and street in prayer by 2030. 

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Akram Hadeed joined forces with TWPC in April, 2022 and is enjoying every minute of it. It's been a beautiful and amazing journey of mutual encouragement and collaboration. The vision of Streets of Prayer found a physical home at TWPC. He knows that God is able to do exceedingly more than he can ask or imagine. So he can't wait to see how this all will unfold.

Lauren Murengezi is married to Ebenezer Murengezi and counts it a pure joy and blessing to homeschool their five children. Together, she and her husband pastor Crossway Christian Church. Her testimony always begins by her saying that she didn’t grow up in a Christian home and didn’t meet a Christian until she went to college. After a number of invitations to attend a Christian church, she finally met the Lord Jesus at a church retreat at Sandy Grove in Maryland. Her life was radically transformed. She has her M.S. in Clinical & Counseling Health Psychology and has completed many courses towards a Ph.D. in Christian Psychology. After only a short time of walking with the Lord, she moved to Nairobi, Kenya and served as a psychologist and teacher at a local orphanage. It was in Nairobi that she met Ebenezer. In 2013, they moved to the USA as a married couple. They have been in ministry together serving in multiple capacities as worship leaders, small group leaders, church planters, and ministry overseers. Her greatest joy is living in the truth of the Father’s love.

Timothy's story begins with his parents, who both came from a Buddhist background in Taiwan. They met in the States, got married, and came to Christ together when Timothy was four years old. Though he first professed faith and was baptized at age eleven, the best way to describe Timothy's salvation story is that to this day, it has been more of a "dimmer switch" than a "light switch" experience: he's not sure exactly when God turned the light on, only that He did and that it's grown brighter each day as he's learning to walk with Jesus.

Born and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland, Timothy was captivated to learn as a young adult that this county is statistically by far the most ethnically and culturally diverse in the whole country. He dreams of seeing the nations of Montgomery County and the whole DC metro area saturated in extraordinary prayer, John 17 unity, and multiplying streams of disciples, churches, leaders, and Kingdom movements. 

As the Lord has clearly called him to Silver Spring and the work of growing his own prayer life and catalyzing prayer in the region, Timothy joined the TWPC team in February 2022. He's convinced that this ministry has a crucial part to play in restoring God's heart for the church to be a house of prayer for all nations, and is eager to see how the Lord He intends to do immeasurably more than anyone can ask, think, imagine or dream for His glory!

Leonard has joined the ministry to take care of the grounds and intercede daily. We are grateful for his prayers and presence as he serves the Lord!

We are grateful for our partnership with ministries and churches who intercede for this ministry and with us on a daily and weekly basis.