Help Los Angeles Become a Better Place to Live, Work, and Play
The Best Way to Impact Los Angeles is By Raising Up Urban Leaders
Your Generosity Equips Leaders to Serve Urban Communities in Los Angeles
Dedicated leaders in Los Angeles are under-equipped and under-trained to take on the sustained challenges in L.A. Over half of the residents live in neighborhoods with high rates of poverty and economic distress.
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 Los Angeles
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 Los Angeles
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 Our Los Angeles Ministry Developer
Chad Wolyn 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.
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