Omaha

Omaha is presented as the decisive geographic setting in the Kunnemans’ ministry story: after seven years of uncertainty, loss, and waiting, Hank Kunneman received the instruction to go there and start a church, making the city the place where a delayed ministry dream began to take visible form.

A City at the Turning Point

Omaha enters the narrative at the end of a prolonged period of reversal. Hank had been fired from ministry, sold his first house, moved with no money and no place to live, and spent seven years trying to find his way back into ministry while feeling that his circumstances contradicted what God had spoken and what others had prophesied about his future. The period is interpreted through the pattern of Joseph, whose dream was followed by a pit, a prison, and eventual promotion rather than immediate fulfillment.

Seven years later, Hank said that the Lord spoke again in a way that seemed almost audible, asking whether he would pastor and directing him to go to Omaha and start a church. He discussed the instruction with his pastor, and that conversation marked the beginning of what the book calls the resurrection of the Kunnemans’ dreams. Omaha therefore functions not merely as a destination but as the concrete answer that followed a season in which the promise had appeared to be dead.

Ministry Established in Omaha

The ministry associated with Omaha is Lord of Hosts Church, which Hank and Brenda Kunneman pastor there. The church is described as a place of captivating praise and worship, prophetic teaching, and services marked by the presence of God. Its ministry is organized around a solid leadership team and an effort to address the everyday needs of people while raising up strong believers.

The account also places Lord of Hosts Church within a wider Christian reputation. Ministries worldwide are said to have regarded it as one of the most promising and cutting-edge churches in the United States. Omaha thus becomes linked with both the Kunnemans’ personal restoration and the public expansion of their ministry.

Symbolic and Narrative Significance

Within the book’s theology of persistence, Omaha embodies the relationship between delayed promise and eventual obedience. The city appears only after Hank and Brenda have continued seeking God through disappointment, confusion, and apparent abandonment. Its significance comes from the contrast between the earlier command associated with a seven-year period and the later direction to begin again: the delay is reread not as proof that God had forgotten them, but as part of a process leading toward promotion and usefulness.

Omaha also anchors the book’s movement from testimony to invitation. The surrounding teaching urges readers not to withdraw from prayer when they fail, feel ashamed, or believe that God is not responding. Against that backdrop, the Kunnemans’ move to Omaha serves as a narrative example of persistence producing a new beginning. The city is where a private word becomes a church, a ministry setting, and a public expression of the conviction that God’s promises can come to life again.

Lasting Association

By the close of the book’s ministry information, Omaha remains the settled home of Lord of Hosts Church and the principal place associated with the Kunnemans’ pastoral work. The city’s lasting identity in the narrative is therefore twofold: it is the location of an active congregation and the remembered site at which a ministry dream, after seven years of apparent contradiction, entered its next stage.