Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest

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World Impact: An Urban Christian Missions Organization In 1965, Keith Phillips began a Bible Club for children in a federal housing project in the Watts area of Los Angeles. Before long, neighboring housing projects asked him to expand his ministry into their communities. Soon Keith recruited over 300 college volunteers to help respond to those requests for ministry.

World Impact is a Christian Missions Organization dedicated to ministering Christ’s love in the inner cities of America, through evangelism, discipleship, and the planting of culturally conducive churches. World Impact development ministries demonstrate the love of God in practical out-reaches such as Christian schools, medical clinics, job training and other forms of development that serve existing and emerging urban churches.

From that modest beginning, World Impact has grown significantly, and it has developed into a full-fledged missions organization with full-time missionary staff, called by God to both live and minister in the inner city. First incorporated as a mission in 1971, World Impact has expanded to include 11 cities, 5 camps/ training centers, 4 Christian schools, and numerous service projects and development programs. In each of these locations, World Impact missionaries seek to minister to those who are as yet unreached by the Gospel, and to evangelize, disciple, and establish dynamic congregations of new believers. In many of these locations, World Impact missionaries partner with existing denominations to help stimulate new out-reaches into neglected areas or among new immigrant populations.

World Impact Ministry Locations

Cities Los Angeles, CA; Watts, CA; San Diego, CA; Oakland, CA; San Francisco, CA; Fresno, CA; Dallas, TX; Wichita, KS; St. Louis, MO; Chester, PA; Newark, NJ. Camps/Training Centers The Oaks Camp - Lake Hughes, CA; Morning Star Ranch - Florence, KS; Deer Creek Camp - Bailey, CO; Harmony Heart Camp - Jermyn, PA; The Urban Ministry Institute - Wichita, KS.

Christian Elementary Schools Los Angeles, CA; Watts, CA; Chester, PA; Newark, NJ.

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