Devid & Valentina Walder

About Devid and Valentina

Devid and Valentina are married and have three children. As missionaries with Globe Mission, they travel throughout South Tyrol (northern Italy) and Italy, serving primarily in the various prayer houses in the HOP Alliance Italia prayer house network.
Devid and Valentina are the founders of the HOP Merano prayer house.
Devid is also part of the leadership team of HOP Alliance Italia.

Devid was born and raised in South Tyrol.
From 2013 to 2015, he attended the Glaubenszentrum Bible School in Bad Gandersheim, Germany.

In his second year of school, God gave him a vision of a prayer house in Merano.

Although he did not yet have a clear idea of what prayer ministry or 24/7 worship meant at the time, he has carried this vision in his heart ever since.
In the spring of 2015, he took part in a ten-day mission trip to Caserta (southern Italy) with the Bible school. There he got to know both the HOP Italia prayer house and Valentina.
In the fall of the same year, he returned to Caserta to serve as a missionary in the prayer house for two years.

Valentina was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. At the age of six, she moved with her family to her father’s homeland, Italy. Shortly before that, her father had converted and began working as a missionary in Italy.

Valentina learned from an early age what it means to live by faith.

Although her father later returned to his original profession, her parents’ home remained a place of hospitality. There she met many missionaries from all over the world, including Devid, when he stayed with her family with a mission team from Germany.

THE MISSION

Through their ministry, Devid and Valentina want to support prayer houses throughout Italy—and beyond—in their establishment, development, and growth.
Their hearts are set on promoting prayer and worship in congregations and churches and strengthening a spiritual culture of prayer.

CHILDREN AND MUSIC

Valentina leads the children’s ministry HOP Children. Her goal is to introduce children to an active lifestyle of prayer and worship, thereby deepening their relationship with God.

Devid is involved in worship ministry and wants to build and shape a culture of worship in South Tyrol. This includes training future worship leaders and writing and publishing worship songs in his own language.