By 2021, World Impact has a desire to plant or partner with 300 new urban churches. We will accomplish this through facilitating church-planting movements by evangelizing, equipping and empowering the unchurched urban poor. That is an aggressive goal and challenges us with a much needed sense of urgency.
A huge part of reaching this goal will be implementing our Evangel School of Urban Church Planting. This past August, 23 men and women were trained as Deans to lead Evangel Schools around the country. These deans came from different cities, such as Dallas, Newark, Oakland, and Topeka. They are community leaders, pastors, and missionaries from different denominations and church planting strategies but united with a passion to see the multiplication of healthy urban churches.
One of the pastors attending shared that he has been to a few church planting conferences and they were all good but were lacking one huge component for him. The component he felt was missing was the belief that the urban poor can and should be empowered to lead church. You see, the unchurched urban poor is arguably the most unreached people group in America, and this pastor (and World Impact) believes that this is the group that will lead the charge in planting churches in some of the hardest and most forgotten-about cities.
We believe that through Evangel School and other initiatives, we have a fighting chance to plant and partner with over 300 churches in the next five years. Please join us in praying for these deans as they train future church planters. Pray for the upcoming Evangel Schools in Dallas, Topeka, Wichita and many other cities. If you would like to know more about Evangel School or how you could support a team going through this process, feel free to contact Daren Busenitz at dbusenitz@worldimpact.org
Learn more about the Evangel School of Church Planting.