This council came into existence under the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Greg Crawford of Jubilee International Ministries had sought the Lord for almost 2 years about the formation of a state council. During this time, the Iowa Alliance was formed and started traveling the state to locate the key leaders, those desiring to see change, and could possibly make up the council. Traveling the state of Iowa for 2 years brought a greater understanding of seeing the need for the Body of Christ in Iowa to come together and be connected with each other. Also revealed was the great potential and resources within the Church. But the need for direction, mobilization, and affirmation of the existing emerging apostolic companies is needed within the state. After talking with many, the need for the formation of this council was coming to bear. In the spring of 2008, Greg Crawford along with others from the state of Iowa, attended a conference in Colorado Springs to launch the United States Apostolic Alliance under Dutch Sheets' leadership. Dutch mentioned the need for state wide apostolic counsels to be formed to mobilize the Body of Christ. Greg Crawford looked upon this not as direction but confirmation that what he sensed for 2 years in his spirit was right. A new structure had to be in place to allow awakening to come into the state. Upon returning from this trip, he called for a gathering of leaders and ministries to be formed for the first time within the state. The willingness to come together was great from the beginning and all looked at this as an opportunity to advance the Kingdom of God together doing what no one person could do, to create something of such magnitude it would touch every person in the state. From that point forward, this council has moved in amazing harmony and willingness to serve each other and the emerging leaders of Iowa. This council is also approved and been commissioned under Dutch Sheets' United States Apostolic Alliance (USAA) organization. Greg Crawford of J.I.M.Ministry Base has been approved as the State coordinator for the USAA for Iowa.

This council has met numerous times as well as tele-conferencing. They met in an all day meeting to discuss and ascertain one thing, the vision they had for the state of Iowa. The following is the outcome of that meeting and sets the course of direction for the Iowa Alliance for Reformation.

Our vision is to see leaders in the Church and marketplace aligned to fulfill God’s Kingdom Purpose for the people of Iowa.

To fulfill this vision we said our mission statement is the following:

Our mission is to empower our emerging generation of leaders to transform their communities.

If we pursue our mission statement, then the vision will be fulfilled!

We decided our core values and strategies can be added to if needed. They are as follows:

Core Values of this Council
Fulfill prophetic words over Iowa
Alliance of honorable leaders and individuals
Full redemption for all of humanity
Release Revelatory truth to the state
Providing protection, restoration and counseling if desired to God’s leaders
Recognition and honoring of spiritual fathers and mothers of Iowa
Meeting the social injustices affecting people
To inform

Strategies: (these can change based on needs)
Increase prayer/coordinate houses of prayer and other prayer networks with pastors and marketplace leaders
Reconciliation
Training and Equipping
Mobilizing and sending/locate/provide Kingdom opportunities
State Emergency relief plan

Rev Gerald Knock, Gerald Knock Ministries,
Greg McCall, Iowa For Jesus
Jim McCutchan, Assembly of God Pastor
Kerry Hadley, State Coordinator Aglow Int, and AfterCare Program
Mike Peters, IHOPE Ministries Waterloo
Peggy Miller, J.I.M Ministry Base
Greg Crawford, J. I. M. Ministry Base
Randy Fontaine, Christ for the City International

To be coming