We can’t wait to see how you will bring hope to your community through connection, being a positive influence, and showing value to your neighbors.
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Do you want to explore the Inside the Urban Church report or other resources?
Knowing Christ and being in fellowship with other believers through a local body is the only complete answer to the problems under-resourced communities face.
We believe that trained urban pastors and leaders produce healthy urban churches which nurture flourishing neighborhoods.
The Inside the Urban Church report’s findings demonstrate that this is not just theory, but reality.
It’s our hope that the information gained through this report can be a blessing – to you, your ministry, and your community.
I invite you to get to know your local World Impact representatives below.
Rev. Dr. Alvin Sanders
President & CEO, World Impact
Chad lives in Los Angeles and oversees our West Coast megaregions, with staff located in both Southern and Northern California. He also is a vital connection for many of our Latin American partners.
Born and raised in the California Bay Area, Chad started street ministry to help gang members and others affected by drug addiction, as well as jail and urban youth ministry in Portland, Oregon right out of college. The call to join World Impact and equip and empower leaders and pastors brought his family back to California, this time in the second largest city in America.
Chad and his wife, Fabiola, pastor the Spanish speaking church Fuente para las Naciones in South Central Los Angeles that they planted in 2010.
Chad met Fabiola, originally from Mexico, while on the mission field. They share the vision to reach the nations by loving and serving the many people in the cities of the US. They have been married 20 years and have three children (Rebecca, Justice and Beniah).
Chad is a Master Trainer with the Trauma Healing Institute as well as a Church Planting Catalyst helping people all over the world establish vibrant, healthy, reproducing ministries and churches. His heart is to encourage and help fan into flames the calling and vision of those that are often under resourced and overlooked to help expand the Kingdom of God.
Chad’s passion is Jesus, the Church, and His Kingdom. He is a bridge builder and works tirelessly to equip and empower hundreds of thousands of people to live out their best life in Jesus and help catalyze the start of hundreds of new ministries and churches.
Yvonne is a California native and grew up in the inner city of Los Angeles 2.3 miles away from the World Impact office.
Growing up in a single parent household had its challenges, but it also built a tenacious will towards overcoming obstacles.
Yvonne was the first in her family to go to college and it currently getting her master’s degree in business administration. She is also a Certified Fund Raising Executive with 16 years of nonprofit experience.
Her walk with God started at a young age, but it wasn’t until college that she learned the importance of having a personal relationship with Jesus.
Becoming a Christian changed the trajectory of her life and that is where her passion to connect with people and be a part of God’s heart for the poor emerged. She has been a part of two mission teams and served as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years in Guatemala.
She has been married for 11 years and she and her husband Anthony planted a small church in Whittier, CA where she now lives. They have two adopted boys, Ryan now 10 years old and Caleb 6. Yvonne valiantly wears many hats as a mother, wife, and women’s ministry leader all while pursuing a career.
Most Christians do not intend to exploit others while doing poverty work.
Many of us are motivated to see justice for the oppressed and have a desire to see suffering alleviated.
Good intentions are a great starting point, but they do not automatically lead to healthy poverty work because we are vulnerable to our sin nature.
Healthy poverty work begins when we grapple with the foundational weakness built into our work — the idealistic belief that we can rescue people from their circumstances.
We’ve designed a free assessment to help you, as an urban church leader, reflect upon and evaluate your church’s effectiveness in reaching and serving others.
You’ll get your free results emailed to you once you hit submit.
