Help Houston Become a Better Place to Live, Grow, and Thrive
The Best Way To Empower Houston Is By Raising Up Urban Leaders
Your Generosity Equips Leaders to Serve Urban Communities in Houston
Dedicated leaders in Houston are under-equipped and under-trained to take on the sustained challenges in the city and beyond. In Houston alone, approximately 19.7% of the population lives below the poverty line.
When you give, World Impact comes alongside urban leaders and equips them to create healthy, thriving churches to serve the communities experiencing poverty.
You Can Empower Change In Houston
Training for church planters, leaders, and pastors often lack sufficient focus on issues facing city neighborhoods —
- Poverty
- Homelessness
- Racialization
- Economic Inequality
- Food Insecurity
… and much, much more
As a result, local church leaders feel frustrated, overwhelmed, and burned-out. We believe these dedicated women and men deserve training to lead healthy churches where the need is greatest. Will you help?
Help Build Flourishing Neighborhoods In Houston
When you come alongside World Impact as a donor, you help us minister to the urban communities served by our core programs.
Urban Church Planting
The Evangel School of Urban Church Planting trains Christian leaders to plant healthy churches in under-resourced communities.
Church-Based Seminary
The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) is a church-based seminary that provides affordable and accessible curriculum for men and women in communities of poverty.
Meet Lorenzo Elizondo, Ministry Developer for the Texas Triangle
Lorenzo oversees the Texas Triangle Megaregion for World Impact between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
He is also the Lead Pastor of LifePoint Church in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas, TX.
Born and raised in Dallas, Texas, he is passionate about teaching and preaching the gospel with biblical faithfulness and cultural clarity. He:
- Proudly served in the Marines
- Graduated from Christ for the Nations Institute
- Studied at Dallas Baptist University
- Holds a Master of Theology degree with a concentration in Urban Ministry from Grimké Seminary
He has an unwavering dedication to spreading the gospel in the urban context, working to reach 2nd and 3rd-generation Latinos and to equip indigenous, kingdom-minded pastors and leaders to advance the gospel.
His leadership and ministry aim is to make disciples, train leaders, and plant churches.
In addition to serving as Lead Pastor of LifePoint Church, Lorenzo served as the South Central Director of Urban Ministry for Acts 29 Network.
He has also served in multiple leadership roles in denominational and city networks.
Lorenzo resides in Dallas, Texas, where he lives with his wife Helen Elizondo, of 29 years; they have four adult children, three of whom are married. Additionally, they are the proud grandparents of three grandsons, Noah James Elizondo, Liam Jett Elizondo, and Josiah Abram Castro.
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