TUMI Magazine

OUR EXPANSION INITIATIVE

www.tumi.org/expansion

Summary God is raising an army of indigenous Christian movements, churches, and leaders around the world, creating an unprecedented opportunity for the Great Commission. The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) is equipping thousands of these leaders for effective Gospel ministry at a fraction of the traditional cost. We are trusting God to help us close the gap between what they can pay and what TUMI needs to operate.

History World Impact has developed fromspecific periods of emphasis: fromUS inner-city evangelism, to discipleship training, holisticministry, and church planting. Today we find, equip, and empower indigenous leaders, congregations, andmovements to declare the Gospel to every people group around the world.

The Problem Today Urban poor people cannot access traditional leadership education. • Too expensive: To equip 1 missionary for every 100 unreached people would require training 73 million folk, costing more than 3 trillion dollars (rivaling the US budget)! • Excluded by admission requirements: Many emerging leaders cannot qualify academically. • Inaccessible: Traditional Bible and seminary training not offered among the neediest communities. • Culturally irrelevant: Much of traditional curriculum does not relate to urban poor challenges. • Inadequate: Only 5% of the world’s Christian workers/pastors receive Bible training. If every traditional school was filled, the number would only grow another 1%.

Our Better Alternative TUMI multiplies qualified spiritual laborers especially among the poor. • We have been innovating in urban poor Christian leadership development since 1995. • It can cost up to $100,000 annually to deploy a Western missionary; we can equip an indigenous one for around $50 per month. • The Capstone Curriculum , our 16-course systematic seminary-level program is historically orthodox, practical, and geared toward oral learners. • We help churches and movements form satellites: turnkey administration; growth from 12 satellites (in 2006) to 280 (as of March 2018). • We design resources, events, and programming serving churches and movements for church planting, discipleship, outreach, and ministry consultation. • We can resource God-called, gifted indigenous leaders anywhere on earth, whether urban or rural, or from northern to southern hemisphere. • We equip pastors and church planters to do Gospel ministry in places traditional missionaries do not serve.

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