Transform Your Community!

At World Impact, we share your passion for uplifting under-resourced communities.

We want to help you connect with other urban leaders making a difference in your community, city, state, or region. Discover resources to transform your community, in your context, through your church or ministry.

How can we expand God’s Kingdom, together?

Urban Ministry Resources

Tools & Resources to Help You Plant Healthy Churches

Urban Pastor's Assessment

Is your ministry actually effective?

This self-assessment is designed to help you, as an urban church leader, reflect upon and evaluate your church’s effectiveness reaching and serving others.

Learn how to access this free assessment tool through World Impact’s partner, Gloo.

Urban Church Assessment

Does your church community feel like you’re really reaching them well?

As a compliment to the Urban Pastor’s Assessment, this free assessment will provide you with a 180-degree view of how effective your ministry truly is.

Get instructions on how to set up your free assessment through Gloo with your resources.

Meet Chad Wolyn

Senior Ministry Developer

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.

About World Impact

We come alongside church leaders with ministry training to build their local church.

For more than 50 years, we’ve affirmed the call and vocation of local urban church pastors and ministry leaders who want to transform their cities through the Gospel.

We have a vision to see a healthy church in every community of poverty.

Our Core Programs

Get to know World Impact and how we equip and support our Partners.

Church-Based Seminary

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.

Trauma Healing

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.

Urban Church Planting

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.

Prison Ministry

With training, men and women who have experienced incarceration can be powerful agents to advance God’s Kingdom in and through your local church.

Benefits of World Impact Training

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What Our Partners Are Saying

World Impact does just that … impacts lives! Partnering with World Impact is an honor and a privilege, and I look forward to many more years of equipping and empowering the urban community to unashamedly represent Jesus Christ."

Tshlaine W.

Ministry Partner

"The Church-Based Seminary classes we have taken through World Impact have helped us by giving us more love for the people we serve and giving us the skills to grow in knowledge as we teach the classes in our church."

Carlos and Lily V.

Ministry Partners

"We must be trained in the Gospel. We cannot go on our own theologies. We can't go on just traditions and beliefs. It must be the unadulterated Gospel. I got that from the Urban Ministry and World Impact, I am thankful and I'm grateful for what they've done, because it just allowed me and the group of people that I served with, to go out into the community and be grateful God."

Rev. Ray J