Fit to Represent, Vision for Discipleship Seminar

20 Fit to Represent: Vision for Discipleship Seminar ▪

World Impact Strategies

June 2013

The following passage is an excerpt from a document written by Rev. Don Allsman, vice president of World Impact, describing World Impact’s current strategies to advance the Gospel in the three ministry areas known as “hubs.” Each ministry hub will marshal its efforts, resources, prayers, and actions to use these strategies to help our organization identify, equip, and release a new generation of indigenous leaders who will plant and pastor churches among the lost in each area. These ministry strategies reveal our commitment to urban leadership and the urban church, and will be the center of our shared ministry focus for the months and years ahead. Notice the focus on indigeneity, i.e., our unqualified confidence that the cities of America and the world can only be won through the divine calling and empowerment of thousands of qualified spiritual laborers who will engage in pioneer mission to win the lost and transform America’s neediest communities. This is our vision and mission today. Current Strategies Ends will be reported in terms of our current strategies that contribute to our vision. The vision and strategies may change in future years (as it has in the past), but our current vision is to “find, equip, and release” indigenous leaders (“indigeneity”) through eight strategies: 1. Planting churches through World Impact (CP): WI staff attempting to establish self-governing, self-supporting, self-reproducing urban churches that will become independent of WI oversight but affiliated with an association or denomination. 2. Training/coaching/partnering with others (Partner): WI staff assisting urban Christians, urban ministries, or denominations to plant churches or start ministries that promote healthy of urban congregations. 3. Developing or leading urban church associations (UCA): WI staff establishing or nurturing UCAs that provide structure for urban pastors to share resources and encourage each other, leading to healthier urban churches, and providing a place to find indigenous leaders for further partnership. 4. Resourcing World Impact Associates (WIA): WI staff equipping emerging urban church planters to become more effective.