Sue's Story
AUTHOR, DIRECTOR, EXECUTIVE PASTOR, CREATOR, IGNITOR
Rev. Sue Nilson Kibbey serves as Director of the Bishop Bruce Ough Innovation Center at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Sue’s local church ministry appointments have included a variety of roles, including executive pastor of Ginghamsburg United Methodist Church in Tipp City, Ohio—partnering with senior pastor Mike Slaughter for a decade of dramatic growth, including both local and global missional fruitfulness.
Sue also served on the executive staff of the United Methodist West Ohio Conference as the creator and director of the Missional Church Consultation Initiative (MCCI)—which eventually spread across multiple states and has engaged nearly 200 churches of all sizes and settings in creative revitalization for a fresh season of impact. Sue now leads the Innovation Center’s new prayer-fueled “Floodgates Collective,” which offers customized training and practical implementation guidance for congregations longing to shift from plateau or decline into vibrant, prayer-saturated, Spirit-guided steps forward.
Sue is a nationally-recognized trainer, consultant and author of multiple books and resources, each aimed to equip and fuel the spiritual and missional renewal of pastors, leaders and congregations. Sue’s greatest passion is igniting churchwide congregational momentum with what she terms a “Breakthrough Prayer Initiative,” for which she’s provided training and equipping for thousands of church pastors, leaders and members.
Sue is an adjunct faculty instructor at United, teaching the master of divinity “Leadership for Ministry” course each year. She’s also a mentor-assistant for United’s “Open the Floodgates” Doctor of Ministry cohort, together with lead mentor Rev. Dr. Brian Law.
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Sue’s most recent books include (available at Cokesbury.com and Amazon.com):
Floodgates: Holy Momentum for a Fearless Church @2016, Abingdon Press
Ultimate Reliance: Breakthrough Prayer Practices for Leaders @2019, Abingdon Press (small group 5-session resource, with supporting DVD of short breakthrough prayer video stories)
Open Road: The Adventure of a Breakthrough Prayer Initiative @2021, MarketSquare Books
New Release
Dynamite Prayer Spanish Version (PDF)
ORACIÓN DINAMITA: UN EXPERIMENTO DE 28 DÍAS
There is a massive current of divine power — God’s resurrection power — that is active and alive in the world today. What if, through prayer, you could tap into the miraculous power of God’s Holy Spirit and unleash more than you could ask, think, or imagine into your life and world?
Dynamite Prayer is a daily prayer guide that will show you how to begin a practice of “breakthrough prayer,” a way of praying where we ask God to open new doors and reveal new possibilities, fueled by the Spirit’s power. This 28-day adventure will take you from feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and uninspired to curious and expectant as you surrender your own preferences and ideas and courageously follow the miracles God brings into your life.
Each day contains:
- A brief meditation on a verse from Scripture that will help you see how the Spirit’s
dynamic power has been at work throughout history and in your life today
- Reflection questions for the day
- A short breakthrough prayer for the day
- A prayer word or phrase to help you make breakthrough prayer part of each
moment
Whether you do this with your church, your organization, or in your personal life, this simple-yet-powerful way of praying will increase your faith and transform your world as you invite fresh inspiration into every aspect of your life.
Dynamite Prayer (ePUB)
There is a massive current of divine power — God’s resurrection power — that is active and alive in the world today. What if, through prayer, you could tap into the miraculous power of God’s Holy Spirit and unleash more than you could ask, think, or imagine into your life and world?
Dynamite Prayer is a daily prayer guide that will show you how to begin a practice of “breakthrough prayer,” a way of praying where we ask God to open new doors and reveal new possibilities, fueled by the Spirit’s power. This 28-day adventure will take you from feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and uninspired to curious and expectant as you surrender your own preferences and ideas and courageously follow the miracles God brings into your life.
Each day contains:
- A brief meditation on a verse from Scripture that will help you see how the Spirit’s
dynamic power has been at work throughout history and in your life today
- Reflection questions for the day
- A short breakthrough prayer for the day
- A prayer word or phrase to help you make breakthrough prayer part of each
moment
Whether you do this with your church, your organization, or in your personal life, this simple-yet-powerful way of praying will increase your faith and transform your world as you invite fresh inspiration into every aspect of your life.
Dynamite Prayer
A 28 Day Experiment
There is a massive current of divine power — God’s resurrection power — that is active and alive in the world today. What if, through prayer, you could tap into the miraculous power of God’s Holy Spirit and unleash more than you could ask, think, or imagine into your life and world?
Dynamite Prayer is a daily prayer guide that will show you how to begin a practice of “breakthrough prayer,” a way of praying where we ask God to open new doors and reveal new possibilities, fueled by the Spirit’s power. This 28-day adventure will take you from feeling stuck, overwhelmed, and uninspired to curious and expectant as you surrender your own preferences and ideas and courageously follow the miracles God brings into your life.
Each day contains:
- A brief meditation on a verse from Scripture that will help you see how the Spirit’s
dynamic power has been at work throughout history and in your life today
- Reflection questions for the day
- A short breakthrough prayer for the day
- A prayer word or phrase to help you make breakthrough prayer part of each
moment
Whether you do this with your church, your organization, or in your personal life, this simple-yet-powerful way of praying will increase your faith and transform your world as you invite fresh inspiration into every aspect of your life.
Ultimate Reliance
Breakthrough Prayer Practices for Leaders
Adding a Breakthrough Prayer Initiative to the teamwork of your church or ministry’s leadership will change everything—and transform what may have become routine administrative work, into riding the exciting rapids of a God-led spiritual adventure together!
Author Sue Nilson Kibbey’s classic church leadership book, Ultimately Responsible, and her most recent release Flood Gates: Holy Momentum for a Fearless Church, are followed by this new resource that will strengthen the "flood gate" of your breakthrough prayer practices both collectively and individually. Each chapter includes discussion questions, application ideas, a breakthrough prayer practice for the week or month—plus a short inspirational video story of a leader like you whose breakthrough prayer practice made all the difference. (Downloadable videos stories package or DVD sold separately). Ideal for use with your church council, board, leadership team, class, small group or entire congregation—whoever longs to build prayer practices for breakthroughs and new God possibilities as the ultimate foundation for everything else.
Flood Gates
Holy Momentum for a Fearless Church
Sue Nilson Kibbey follows up the Abingdon Press leadership classic, Ultimately Responsible, with her latest experience-based research about how your congregation can make the shift from plateau or even decline – to opening the flood gates of spiritual upsurge. This resource is a practical “how-to” guide for pastors and church leaders who dream about releasing holy momentum in their current setting.
Whatever your church’s history, setting or mission field, you can set the stage to unleash the floodgates of a Breakthrough Prayer Initiative, learn the skills of making an urgent case for change, shift your church’s culture to “ubiquitous discipleship,” identify and deploy new leaders and other key crucial catalysts. All of these have the potential to transform your
congregation into a fearless, Spirit-driven church that will make new spiritual history for Christ in your own mission field and beyond.