95% of today’s leaders are not trained for pastoral ministry and a lack of training can lead to frustration, cynicism, and overwhelm for urban pastors. That is why everything we do at World Impact is geared toward helping urban pastors and church leaders get access to affordable and effective training.
When you partner with World Impact, you are making sure that these agents of change get the resources and support they need to build and sustain healthy churches. Read more about our core ministry programs below.
The World Impact Urban Ministry Institute resources and trains urban church leaders. We provide affordable and accessible seminary-based training for men and women in communities of poverty everywhere.
Our Evangel School of Urban Church Planting trains Christian workers to plant healthy churches among the urban poor. This training is specifically designed to equip teams to reach under-resourced communities.
World Impact’s Trauma Healing Program equips urban ministry workers and leaders to facilitate Bible-based healing groups. Participants can choose to be trained in leading their own healing groups, exponentially expanding the ministry.
At World Impact, we believe that God can transform the lives of those in prison and call them to participate with Him in His Great Commission. Through our Prison Ministry, we are training and equipping radical men and women to pastor and plant churches within prison walls and the communities in which they used to live.
The tough reality faced by pastors and church workers serving in urban communities is that money and time are too scarce for these valiant leaders to engage in long, traditionally structured pastoral training while devotedly serving God.
Building healthy churches in these communities is practically impossible without training geared towards their needs and circumstances. We ensure that urban leaders have access to affordable and effective training, no matter where they live. Our core ministry programs are vital to their success.
When you come alongside World Impact as a donor, you empower thousands of workers globally and help provide formal theological training to the 95% – in their communities, for their context, and to spread the reach of the Gospel with faithfulness to Scripture.
Our programs designed for the urban context train church leaders to train others in their communities.
A ministry engaging in a World Impact program with its costs covered.
A worker equipped to provide a World Impact program to other workers.
A person who has participated in a World Impact program.
We have a global reach by strategically engaging major U.S. cities as gateways to the world.
