We believe in God's call on your life to serve your community
At World Impact, we are dedicated to making sure you can access affordable and effective ministry training.
Every urban community needs a healthy church and our training will help you build and sustain your church.
Discover programs contextualized for urban ministry and focused on gospel-centered leadership development, church renewal, and spiritual formation.
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Urban Church Plant Schools
2-Day Schools across the United States
Whether you are planting a new church, preparing to re-plant (restart, revitalize, or relaunch) an existing church, seeking a process for transitioning to next generation of pastoral leadership, or seeking to catalyze a church planting movement, there’s a place for you and your team.
Program Cost: $100 per team (2-5 people)
Urban Ministry Programs
Tracks for equipping and supporting Urban Leaders
Multiply disciples and develop leaders by starting a training center in your church, parachurch, prison, or denomination as a satellite of The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) Church-Based Seminary.
World Impact’s Trauma Healing exists to equip churches, ministry networks, and denominations with the mental health and biblical resources needed to lead others to receive healing and freedom from trauma.
Equip leaders from your movement, denomination, ministry network, or church to train church plant teams to establish new churches in their context by offering Evangel Schools of Urban Church Planting.
Men and women across the United States are becoming Christian leaders by receiving Church-Based Seminary, Church Planting, and Trauma Healing training inside the prison system before being released.
Thoughts from Urban Leaders
Urban Ministry Resources
Discover ways to take action on the report findings
Inside the Urban Church: How Local Congregations Engage With and Impact Their Communities
Operating within dense and diverse neighborhoods creates a special opportunity for up-close and lived-out ministry--that's what we've teamed up with the Barna Group to create a new research report.
Redemptive Poverty Work
Join Dr. Alvin Sanders, President & CEO of World Impact, as helps you understand the three dimensions of poverty work — exploitative, ethical and redemptive — and how you can change your mindset to minister effectively in a community of poverty in a way that honors Christ and transforms those who are served.
Uncommon Church
By Rev. Dr. Alvin Sanders
How can the people of God develop churches in ways that help and don’t hurt poor neighborhoods?
Uncommon Church
A streaming video course from Alvin Sanders at Seminary Now
The Keys to Engage Sustainably in Redemptive Poverty Work
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