World Impact has been sharing the gospel in the inner-cities of America since 1971. As a Christian missions organization, World Impact evangelizes and disciples the unreached urban poor, helping them form dynamic congregations which minister Christ's love in the city.

The Urban Ministry Institute is an important part of the way in which leaders from these and other churches can receive quality biblical training and be equipped for the task of ministry. The Urban Ministry Institute is led by experienced faculty who combine many years of missionary field experience with formal theological credentialing.

Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis (B.A., Wheaton College; M.A., Wheaton Graduate School; Ph.D., The University of Iowa School of Religion) is the Director of The Urban Ministry Institute.

Rev. Don Allsman (B.S., California State University, Fresno; M.B.A., Wichita State University) is the Satellite Director of The Urban Ministry Institute.

In the summer of 1995 Don Davis and his family moved from University of Iowa along with Rev. Terry Cornett (B.A., Univ. of Texas; M.A. Wheaton College; M.A. Asuza Pacific Univ.) and his family from Los Angeles to Wichita, Kansas to launch The Urban Ministry Institute. We officially opened for classes in the spring 1996, and since that first semester have held classes, colloquiums, training events, and conferences for laypersons and pastors who minister in the city. Our mission is to equip leadership for the urban church, especially among the poor, to advance the Kingdom of God in the city. We provide biblical and theological training that is both inexpensive and accessible to Christian leaders among the underprivileged in the city.

Our sincere conviction is that God has selected the poor to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom of God. We believe without equivocation that some of the finest disciples and missionaries of our time will arise from the rank and file in the churches of the urban poor. We have dedicated ourselves, here at the Institute, to do everything we can to raise up qualified spiritual laborers for Christ and his Kingdom among the poorest of the poor in America's inner-cities. All of our programming, teaching and sponsorships are to this end.