IHOP Worship Team Refuses to Evacuate Room After Bomb Threat + Keep Playing While Cops and K-9’s Search
The worship team at the International House of Prayer refused to leave the stage after a bomb threat was made against them, with leadership asking attendees to evacuate the room. The worship team was given the option to stay on stage or leave, with many choosing to remain while law enforcement and K-9 units swept the room around them.
An IHOP leader told the audience:
We have been reported that somebody have put a bomb inside this room. So our police men have to do some search and to see if this room is safe or not.
We will have the worship team continue. I will be standing right here, and we will inform you if you are safe to come back into the room.
It is unclear why they chose to remain in that room despite the threat. Notably, IHOPKC has had a prayer room with live worship music and prayer being played around the clock, 24 hours a day, for the last 25 years.
However, they have occasionally “moved the fire” to different parts of the building, such as when that room requires their carpets to be cleaned or during conferences. One X user was aghast at the situation, echoing the sentiment of many when he wrote: “There never should have been an option. People should have been moved for a predetermined location outside, away from the building. Take a guitar.”
Responding to the criticism, one of the IHOP worship leaders present, Audra Lynn wrote about the incident on Facebook, insisting that “neither myself nor any of my teammates were in any way pressured, coerced, or made to stay on that stage during this process.”
While most of her commenters were praising her for her courage, a few were circumspect:
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