Multiplying Laborers for the Urban Harvest

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The Vision of The Urban Ministry Institute

Habakkuk 2:2-4 (ESV) - And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. [3] For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. [4] Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.” To Facilitate Church Planting Movements among America’s Unreached Urban Poor As a ministry of World Impact, TUMI is dedicated to empowering church planting movements to reach and transform America’s inner cities. In order to attain this purpose, we will facilitate strategic alliances among urban churches and their leaders to trigger pioneer church planting movements that multiply thousands of Kingdom-oriented churches among America’s urban poor. We will do all we can to ensure that these churches are led by godly undershepherds serving congregations that hold to the canonical story and narrative of God’s Son and his kingdom in Scripture, that affirm and display the credal emblems of the Church, and which keep their reflection and practice anchored in the Scriptures in sync with the theological interpretation learned from the early Fathers. We will seek to strengthen their Christ-centered identity displayed in their Spirit-formed worship and community life, shaped in spiritual formation by historically orthodox doctrine, and expressed passionately in their Kingdom-oriented practice and mission. To Equip Leaders Who Serve These Church Planting Movements Furthermore, TUMI will strive to insure that leaders allied to these movements are equipped for effective urban ministry, and empowered to display and advance the Kingdom in unreached communities neighboring their own. TUMI will strive to ensure that the leaders and churches arising from these movements participate as active members of larger networks of healthy assemblies where they can be edified through common worship and discipleship, dynamic, ongoing fellowship, and protected through effective structures of godly oversight

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