Pastors Ken and Lois

Pastor Ken and Lois Gott are senior pastors of Bethshan church, Newcastle. They currently live in Sunderland and have three daughters, Joanne, Debbie and Rachel. Their 2 oldest daughters are married to Tim and Luke who are the associate pastor and worship pastor respectively.

Pastor Ken was called into the ministry from his job as a police finger print expert. In his 20’s he heard God calling him at a meeting in which Terry Virgo was preaching from Nehemiah “The walls are down…” He heard the call to stand and believe for revival and said “Yes”. He had recently married a pastors daughter, Lois, and his father in-law Herbert Harrison began mentoring and encouraging him.

Pastor Harrison was a man of revival, a disciple of Nelson Parr (the great revivalist from Manchester) and so he began putting all he had learned into his spiritual son. So was birthed a hunger for revival with a full expression of signs, wonders and miracles. Lois had grown up thinking it normal to sit on the knees of great men of God like Smith Wigglesworth and Willie Burton. She thought it the most natural thing in the world to see healings and salvations. It was this incredible alliance that God was shaping up to change his church.

It was a small beginning and inauspicious as they were asked to plant a home group in the village of Ouston, just outside Durham. The favour of God was on them and soon people were travelling from all around to ask if they could join. It wasn’t long before they had out grown their front room and asked permission to plant out a church in Sunderland. Their first venue at the local leisure centre became too small and they took a room at the local YMCA. Around 100 people met and prayed for revival. The prayer meetings were supercharged and began to move something in the heavenlies. In faith they bought some land and with their small congregation began to believe God for the building. Houses and treasured possessions were sold, people down sized to release equity and the building was completed. It was just in time for the worldwide revival God was pouring out in 1994.

It was a reluctant visit to Holy Trinity Brompton in 1994 that ignited the revival flame again. As Pastor Ken received an incredible touch from God at the London church he was totally surprised. He had never felt such a presence of God and God’s question to him “How’s your heart?” was met with the reply “It feels really good!” The church thought the same and felt they should send Pastor Ken and Lois to Toronto to see more of the revival. They were impacted as never before. As Carol and John Arnott prayed for them they received a vision of Europe burning imprinted in their hands and knew God was giving them fresh impartation. Little did they know the enormity of what God was about to release in Sunderland.

When they returned to the church they found everyone at the Sunday service eager to hear the stories of revival. They didn’t get the stories; the presence of God was so strong all they could do was pray for the church. The fire spread through the church and it was decided, “Let’s come back tonight because God is here and we don’t know how long He will stay.” The meeting that Sunday launched nightly meetings from 1994 to 1997 and began Pastor Ken and Lois'worldwide ministry taking revival fire everywhere with Revival Now! People were visiting Sunderland from all over the world. Ministry after ministry agreed to come to the church: Benny Hinn, John Bevere, Tommy Tenney, Che Ahn and many others sparking relationships that are still strong.

Their desire for revival was increased by a visit to prayer mountain at Yongi Cho’s church in Seoul Korea in 2003. God birthed a desire for a house of prayer in the North East. So it was in 2006 that God gave them an old Methodist church which was dedicated a 24/7 house of prayer for all nations. The house of prayer was envisioned in Korea and launched in March 2006 and has had people praying there 24/7 since. More than 80 gatekeepers take shifts to keep the revival flame burning day and night. The small prayer grottos on prayer mountain inspired our own prayer booths which people often use for extended personal prayer.

Pastor Ken and Lois have never been afraid to follow revival winds and so wherever salvations and healings are occurring they are there: Pensacola in Florida, Bogota in Colombia, Toronto in Canada, Resistencia in Argentina, Seoul in Korea. Their hunger for revival has not diminished and is a major emphasis for the church. The pastors desire to see revival in the UK and Europe is fuelled by the many conferences they host for the nation.

Keep on Fire.