2023 Evangel Gathering - Friendship and Flourishing for Missions

Speaker Biographies

Rev. Dr. Don Davis Dr. Don Davis serves as Senior Executive Adviser to the President of World Impact. As Founder and former Executive Director of The Urban Ministry Institute, he has been involved in urban ministry and missions with World Impact since 1975. He has spent his entire ministry career as pastor and theologian seeking to raise up a new generation of qualified spiritual workers, church planters, and pastors who can serve emerging churches in the most vulnerable and unreached urban communities in America and across the world. He is a graduate of Wheaton College and Wheaton Graduate School with degrees in Biblical Studies (BA) and Systematic Theology (MA), with summa cum laude honors in both degrees. He earned his Ph.D. in Religion from the University of Iowa School of Religion (2000, Theology and Ethics). As a recipient of numerous teaching and academic awards, he has authored many publications and books (including The Capstone Curriculum , Sacred Roots , and Get Your Pretense On ), training curricula, and study materials to equip and empower biblical leaders to serve the Church of Jesus among the poor and underserved around the globe. He married his wife, Beth, in February 1975, and together they have three children (one deceased), and four grandchildren. Rev. Bob Engel Over forty years ago the Lord called Rev. Bob Engel to World Impact, a Christian missions organization. Presently, he is the Director of Church Planting. He serves to assess, resource, and coordinate urban cross cultural church planters and their efforts on behalf of World Impact’s missionaries, urban church plant teams, and other missional partners who are seeking to plant healthy reproducing churches and facilitate church plant movements from and for the poor. Bob and his wife, Susan, have four children: Rachel, Tristan, Chase, and Mihaly. Rev. Eric Himelick Rev. Eric Himelick and his wife Rachelle are currently serving as the Director of Urban Ministry and Development for Evangelistic Faith Missions. They live with their six children— Kaylynn, Rebecca, Sarah, Samuel, Esther, and Karissa—in Upland, Indiana, at Victory Acres Farm. Eric graduated in 2000 from Union Bible College with a degree in Pastoral Ministry. Rachelle attended UBC for two years. They served

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