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Is Igniting Hope Academy For Me?

Yes! This is a place for anyone looking for their minds to be renewed and their lives to be transformed!

  • Gain momentum and vision for your life

  • Increase your influence through upgraded beliefs

  • Get breakthrough in seemingly hopeless circumstances

Meet Our Instructors

Steve Backlund is an encourager, leader developer, joy activist, and a revivalist teacher. He travels extensively throughout the world encouraging churches, leaders, and organizations into catalytic levels of hope. He has a unique anointing to release hope and joy paired with a revelatory teaching gift that creates new wineskins for greater dimensions of God, both personally and corporately.

Steve Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Founder

Meet Our Instructors

Connie Jones is a John Maxwell Certified Coach and Leader Developer. She is a radical encourager with a passion to see the Body of Christ rise up into her magnificent place of identity and authority. She has been blessed to serve the church during the past 25 + years as a youth pastor, associate pastor, senior leader, and itinerate minister. She is a graduate of BSSM and Rhema Bible College and now works for Igniting Hope Ministries. She and her husband, Aaron live in Redding CA with their greatest treasures, their three sons: Joran, Braden, & Jesse.

Connie Jones

Associate Director of Igniting Hope

Meet Our Instructors

Connie Jones is a John Maxwell Certified Coach and Leader Developer. She is a radical encourager with a passion to see the Body of Christ rise up into her magnificent place of identity and authority. She has been blessed to serve the church during the past 25 + years as a youth pastor, associate pastor, senior leader, and itinerate minister. She is a graduate of BSSM and Rhema Bible College and now works for Igniting Hope Ministries. She and her husband, Aaron live in Redding CA with their greatest treasures, their three sons: Joran, Braden, & Jesse.

Connie Jones

Associate Director of Igniting Hope

Meet Our Instructors

Wendy Backlund is a revelatory author and speaker in the Body of Christ, carrying a passion to set people free and release them into their full identity in Jesus. She equips others to see through heaven’s perspective and walk boldly in the authority God has entrusted to them. With a heart to lead life-changing encounters with God, Wendy inspires breakthrough, awakening, and supernatural transformation wherever she ministers. She is the author of Victorious Emotions, Living From the Unseen and more.

Wendy Backlund

Igniting Hope Co-Founder

Through Our Courses, You Can Expect:

  • Greater connection with Steve, Wendy, and the Igniting Hope Team

  • Teachings, encouragement and Q & A opportunities

  • Easy convenience and structure for people on the go

  • Access to the course content for one year, so you can go at your pace

Are you ready to transform your life?

Igniting Hope Academy

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