Our Leadership

John & Barb Fenn

John and Barbara Fenn were born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up just a few miles from each other. They attended the same kindergarten, went to many of the same neighborhood birthday parties growing up, and had mutual friends. Barb even attended John’s confirmation in the Episcopal church when they were 12 years old.
They began dating as teenagers and were born again together and baptized with the Holy Spirit at age 16. Each attended Indiana University after graduating high school and were then married in 1978.

Their first year of marriage they worked for the PTL Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, learning alot about how to do and not to do ministry! They moved to the Tulsa, Oklahoma area in 1979, and John graduated from Rhema Bible Training Center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma in 1980.

They moved to the Boulder, Colorado area in the spring of 1980, and over the next 12 years John served in various capacities including Campus Minister at the University of Colorado in Boulder, pastor, associate pastor, and traveling minister.

In late 1992 they (and their 3 sons) moved to Tulsa to become involved with Victory Christian Center, a church of about 13,000 members, Billy Joe and Sharon Daugherty, pastors.

John served as Associate Director of Victory Bible Institute, the Bible school of Victory Christian Center, and then became Executive Director where he served for three years. Resigning in the summer of 2000, he began traveling and teaching in churches and Bible schools all over the country.

In the fall of 2000 Peter Wagner asked John to become the Educational Advisor to the Apostolic Council of Educational Accountability (ACEA), the group of Bible schools around the world affiliated with Peter and Global Harvest Ministries. He also became a faculty member of the Wagner Leadership Institute (WLI), based out of the World Prayer Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In December of 2000 John was asked to become the Canadian National Director for WLI.

After starting The Church Without Walls International, John severed ties with Peter Wagner and Global Harvest, as they were moving in different directions.

It seems that over 45+ years of walking with the Lord and in ministry, the Lord has allowed John and Barb to be associated with various ministries before they started getting off balance, then moving them on, taking the best part of things learned with them.

John is the author of “Pursuing the Seasons of God” and ‘Return of the First Church’. Pursuing the Seasons of God is a book about the ways God leads and guides, highlighted by several visitations from Jesus in which he has taught John many keys of walking with the Father and in the timing of the Spirit.

‘Return of the First Church’ is John’s journey out of the institutional church and into house church, highlighting what a balanced and scriptural house church looks like.

Known for teaching with anointing and by revelation and flowing with the gifts of the Spirit, his heart’s desire is to make known the ways of the Father God.

Brian & Amy Fenn

John started the first CWOWI house church in the Fenn family home in 2002. Brian was an active part of this house church and often led worship.
Upon graduation of high school, Brian attended two ministry schools in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Additionally, he studied biblical theology though Colorado Christian University. There he met his wife, Amy. Brian and Amy Married in 2005. In 2008 they moved to Florida and became the youth pastors for a church of about 700 members. Brian additionally became the worship leader for the church. Amy also managed a food bank and homeless ministry.

In 2009 God called Brian and Amy back to Tulsa where they became heavily involved in the CWOWI house church network and the local house church in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

In 2018 the Lord directed Brian to join CWOWI full time. Since that time, Brian has helped develop CWOWI into a better functioning house church network. His core passion is to help connect the network of house churches in over 50 countries together, so they are a resource for each other. Brian and Amy have been married for over 18 years and have three daughters, two dogs, a bearded dragon lizard, and a parakeet. They also help organize and support the CWOWI Tulsa house church, provide free flowing worship ministry, and look forward to many more years serving the Body of Christ.

Valerie Lassek

Valerie has served in various roles in the ministry. Her extensive background in administration and customer service, brings added value and experience to CWOWI as an organization. Valerie has unique experience in coordinating humanitarian aid programs. She also has a heart for Africa and looks forward to serving in her role as the Kids Without Walls International (KWOWI) Director for the ministry.

Wil & Ank Kleinmeulman

Wil and Ank Kleinmeulman met each other in the youth group of the Filadelfia Pentecostal church that they were a part of at that time. They were married in 1975, and in 1979 Wil started working in the Christian Bookstore “Agape” in their hometown of Deventer. After having done this for a couple of years, the Lord led them to Houten where Wil became the manager in a Christian Bookshop in Driebergen for about 8 years.
After that they attended the Domata training school for workers in the 5-fold ministry, and later became staff members there. During this time, they were a part of an evangelical church in Houten and served there as youth leaders, worship leaders, and elders among other things. In the midst of the time they were in Bible school, the Lord started to speak to them to “take the next step”. This led to the start of a new church in a school building in the Southern part of their hometown in 1999.

Having done this for a couple of years, the Lord connected them to John Fenn in 2004. Since then, they moved the church from a school building to a living room and affiliated with the Church Without Walls International house church network. That move felt like coming home to what the Lord had spoken to them in 1980 of “the things you read in the Bible, the testimonies of My first witnesses will also be My last witnesses’ testimonies…”, a return to how the early church “did” church based on relationships with the focus on disciple making.

They have continued “doing” house church and are currently organizing a yearly conference on house churches for those interested. People from all over Europe as well as everywhere the Lord is moving in the hearts of people to return to simplicity in the faith in relationship with others join these conferences. They also offer a part-time online Bible school that is a “go-at-your-own-pace”, “no test” investment in one’s own faith and understanding of the Word and Lord!

Four of their five children are married, and they have eight grandchildren, all of which are wonderful people that serve the Lord where they are positioned by Him.