Dr. Bob Rodgers is the pastor of Evangel World Prayer Center in Louisville, Kentucky. In this capacity he founded and remains the president of the Lord’s Kitchen, one of the largest outreach ministries in Kentucky, serving 3 million meals since opening in 1988.

In 2005, Dr. Yonggi Cho asked Bob Rodgers to head the exploratory committee for establishing Church Growth International of America. In October 2006, CGI America had its first conference of churches in the Americas, hosted by Evangel World Prayer Center in Louisville.