Leadership Team

Former Executive Director of Alpha* USA, minister, evangelist, author, motivational speaker, and former banking executive. Long has over thirty years’ experience of bringing resources together to achieve a stated goal and, from his own encounters with God and deep brokenness, he has a passion for another awakening.

In 1980, Long had a powerful encounter with God that birthed his desperation for an awakening. After much prayer, he surrendered a promising athletic career and his business, hearing the call to move to London. There, he served as a co-pastor of a newly planted church and worked as a banker with HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world.

In 2001, on the strength of a powerful word from God and after much prayer, Long and his beloved wife Jeannie, moved their family to New York. They were humbled by God’s rich blessing in every part of their lives.

However, over an eight year period from 2005, Long endured catastrophic suffering in the suicide of their beloved youngest son Alex, his marriage nearly failing and the tragic death of their beautiful daughter Rebecca. In the depth of brokenness, his faith was challenged to the utmost and, journeying on, he now testifies to God’s faithfulness and his amazing love and grace.
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In 2015, through their prayers and tears, Gerard and Jeannie birthed Awakening to God Ministries. Founded on Isaiah 61:1-4, their mission is to comfort the broken-hearted and to share the love and hope of the gospel with those who are suffering in the US and around the world.

Gerard Long now partners with Prayer at the Heart in our desperate cry to God for another awakening.

*Alpha is an introduction to Christianity supported by multi-denominational and non-denominational churches in over 169 countries.

It is an extraordinary privilege to be a part of Prayer At the Heart movement – an opportunity for believers and leaders to connect in simple, earnest, passionate prayer for the only hope our nation has – that God will intervene, in behalf of His own purposes, and send a revival to the church and a spiritual awakening to the culture.

The good news is that God has done this for us in the past – we have seen great spiritual awakenings that changed the direction of the nation and altered its very ethos. Now we need another divine intervention, one that awakens spiritual and moral sensibilities and confronts the nation with the reality of a living, sovereign and holy God. Such spiritual epiphanies don’t happen in a vacuum. They are associated with prayer, with brokenness, with deep repentance, with some kneeling form who thereby declares God to be the only solution. That’s why I want to be a part of this virtual prayer effort.

Garry Bryant serves as Executive Director of Evangelism USA for the IPHC.  He has served at the local, state, and national level of ministry responsibilities.  His ministry goal is to raise up the body of Christ in effective ministry to carry out the Great Commission.

Garry carries a passion to see the Church become a House of Prayer for all Nations and to be a part of a fresh awakening across the United States.  He and his wife LaDawn reside in Bethany, Oklahoma.

Joe felt called to bring Prayer at the Heart into existence at the same time that that several others from different Christian denominations and geographies were inspired to bring the same idea into a reality including Doug Small and several others.  Through their efforts to launch the Prayer at the Heart idea into reality they met each other and Prayer at the Heart is what it is today.

Joe Soltis is a successful serial entrepreneur, CEO of one of the fastest growing companies in the United States, investor in several businesses and Chairman of a rapidly growing franchise system.

He and his wife, Becky have 6 wonderful children. Becky and Joe also lost a son, Ben late into a pregnancy. Out of that loss, Joe founded several purpose-driven businesses with the central mission of helping others, helping teammates, helping customers and patients, as well as giving back to help those in need. Joe is a firm believer is using business as a tool to help and serve others and give back. Joe has been quoted on Forbes, featured in Entrepreneur, LA Weekly, Influencive, and featured in dozens of business publications on purpose-driven business. He believes that the winners of business in the future will be those that run purpose-driven businesses that do good and do well.

Joe is a strong believer in loving everyone, helping everyone, and offering hope and love to everyone, especially those that need it most. He is a Catholic who believes in Christian unity across all denominations and walks of life. “What people need most is hope. They need to know that they are loved, have value and have a purpose and their life can be filled with love, meaning and hope. People need to know is that they are beautiful in the eyes of God and they need to know the fact that they have the same limitless value in the eyes of God as everyone else – no matter what.” Joe also believes in a great future, “I have no doubt that we as a people and as Americans have great challenges ahead of us, perhaps greater than we have ever faced as a nation and as a people, yet I believe in people and I believe in the limitless love and unfathomable mercy of Jesus. I believe to the point of knowing that America’s best days do indeed lay ahead of us and those days will be found when we unite under the love of an ever-loving God and a love of our neighbor as we ought to love our own sister and brother.”

Rob’s passion lies in empowering the next generation to spark a spiritual awakening in America, inspired by 2 Chronicles 7:14. He loves bringing believers together, fostering a love for prayer, and encouraging bold actions to share Jesus’ love with the world. His journey in ministry has always been about creating connections and making an impact by spreading Christ’s message to everyone he meets.

Over the last 20 years, Rob has led vibrant student ministries, managed large-scale worship tours as the U.S. Director of the Daraja Children’s Choir of Africa, and pioneered discipleship programs. His main focus has always been inspiring young people to live as passionate disciples of Jesus.

At PATH, Rob continues his mission to help people meet Jesus, follow Him, and share His love. He’s excited to invite Gen-Z and future generations to seek the Lord for a powerful move of the Spirit and a greater awakening than ever before.

John Miranda, Chief Operating Officer of Alphaport, Incorporated, co-founded the company with his wife, Rosella, in 1999. Alphaport originated as a service company offering science and technology educational programs to students K through 12. Today, Alphaport is an Aerospace engineering technology company providing product and services that range from Propulsion Systems for Commercial Space Vehicles to Safety Contracts across the country.

John earned a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Dayton and subsequently held manufacturing lead positions at General Electric (GE) Aircraft Engines and GE Nuclear.

John is extremely passionate to be involved with an Industry/Education Movement co-laboring with leaders from the seven mountains of key societal impact to transform Education.