Empowering Urban Leaders to Confront Brokenness and Foster Lasting Change
We’re here to equip you with the contextualized ministry training and the community you need to cultivate shalom in communities experiencing through the local church.
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Ministry Partnership Opportunities
World Impact empowers urban leaders and partners with local churches to reach their cities with the Gospel.
We train and equip leaders in communities experiencing poverty to live out the Great Commission by building healthy local churches that help their neighborhoods flourish.
Have a question or want to find out how to get started?
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Trauma Healing Facilitation
World Impact’s Trauma Healing training paths to serve adults, and those who serve teens, empowers leaders to bring people together in safe, supportive environments, creating space for them to heal through biblically grounded lessons and the encouragement of a caring community.
Training Offerings
For those exploring Trauma Healing:
- Attend a Mini Training
- Attend a Healing Group
Integrated Certification Pathway & Training Phases:
- Initial Equipping to become an Apprentice
Facilitator (Step 1) - Practicum (Step 2)
- Advanced Equipping (Step 3)
- Training Facilitator (By Invitation)
- Master Facilitator (By Invitation)
- Open your own Healing Hub
World Impact partners with the Trauma Healing Institute (THI) to present their proven, Bible-based trauma healing approach.
Trainings are offered in online, in person, and hybrid formats to meet the needs of diverse ministry contexts. This flexibility ensures that urban, rural, and global partners can be equipped without limitations of location, travel, or resources.
Urban Church Planting & Revitalization
Since 2016, World Impact has equipped over 1,000 church plant teams to create a strategy for their unique ministry context in the U.S. and around the world.
Training Offerings
The Evangel School of Urban Church Planting
Our school empowers church plant and revitalization teams with comprehensive training, experienced coaching, and a supportive community, helping them build healthy local churches that help their diverse neighborhoods flourish.
For Church Plant Teams (of 2 or more):
- Looking to plant a new church
For Existing Churches & Leaders:
- Wanting to revitalize an existing church
- Ready to transfer leadership
The Evangel Dean School
The Evangel Dean School training equips leaders from your church, movement, denomination, or ministry network to train church plant teams to establish new churches in their context.
For Those Aspiring to Help Others:
- Train church plant teams
- Train teams to revitalize Start a church plant movement
Seminary-Level Theological Training
For leaders called to urban ministry, World Impact training and resources provide the theological depth and practical skills needed to lead a healthy church and nurture a strong leadership pipeline.
Launch Your Own
Offer your own Church-Based Seminary in your community. Multiply disciples and develop leaders:
- Through your local church
- In prison & for returning citizens
- For your parachurch or denomination
Your church or ministry will benefit from an affordable and accessible leadership training program by using one of three curricula, which best fits your equipping needs.
Training Offerings
Online, directly through The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) from World Impact:
- Capstone (4-year seminary level)
- Cornerstone (1-year accelerated)
In person, through a certified local ministry partner in your area:
World Impact has a network of trained pastors and leaders across the U.S. and worldwide. Please contact us, and we will connect you with someone in our network.
Prison Ministry
Our Prison Ministry empowers incarcerated men and women with training in evangelism, discipleship, and Christian leadership so they can become powerful agents of change, transforming lives and advancing God’s kingdom from within and as returning citizens.
Training Offerings
We believe that God can transform the lives of incarcerated men and women and call them to radical ministry within prison walls and upon release.
Training on the Inside:
We establish Church-Based Seminary satellites inside prisons in partnership with churches and ministries like yours. We are currently training over 1,400 leaders on the inside.
Training on the Outside:
As part of our incarceration network, World Impact resources partners who offer our Church- Based Seminary courses to returning citizens upon release.
World Impact identifies churches and reentry ministries located in communities, where men and women are paroled, to facilitate completion of their coursework that began on the inside.
Upon release, if local training isn’t available, returning citizens can access training online directly through The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) at World Impact.
The local church is not a building or program—it’s God’s people; God’s divinely appointed, most effective, and most sustainable instrument for lasting spiritual transformation and the tangible flourishing of its neighborhood and wider community.
That’s why World Impact offers a unique approach to curriculum and offerings:
- Affordable and accessible training that doesn’t require a minimum GPA, test scores, or academic references
- Adaptable to local and global ministries
- Transcends denominational traditions, making it applicable across diverse Christian communities
- Redemptive Poverty Work philosophy
- Translated into dozens of languages
Curious about World Impact resources and translations?
Discover our catalogue of publications and available translations at TUMIEntree.com.
Stories of God at Work
From Tragedy to Transformation: How the Local Church and World Impact are Restoring Communities of Hope
From deep personal brokenness to lasting transformation, this is the story of Renee, a dedicated ministry leader who found her lifeline in the church.
It’s a powerful example of how a faith-based, holistic approach can empower one person to become a catalyst for change, not just for themselves but for their entire community.
This is the essence of Christian Community Development—walking alongside one another to cultivate shalom in a broken world.
Meet Megan and Micah Williams, church planters in Detroit, Michigan.
Micah and Megan Williams, equipped by World Impact, have planted a church in their Detroit suburb that never had a church before. They go beyond the church walls to serve their communities, such as helping with housing.
When Micah researched training options, he realized many organizations were geared toward a suburban context. He knew they needed training specifically for serving their urban neighbors. World Impact’s Evangel School of Urban Church Planting was a perfect fit. The curriculum “gave us the structure, framework, and encouragement that will help guide us into this call the Lord has placed on our hearts,” Micah shared.
Meet someone who embodies the mission of World Impact —Shaun Estrada.
Shaun is a co-pastor at Mosaic Life Church, a Community Director for Hope Ranch for Women, and one of our World Impact trainers.
In a recent conversation, Shaun shared about the joy and responsibility of equipping others through World Impact’s programs, how powerful it is to watch leaders grow in confidence and biblical knowledge, and the importance of multiplying ministry by training others to do the same.
Shaun’s passion for raising up leaders reflects the heart of World Impact—empowering disciples who make disciples.
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