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Evangel School of Urban Church Planting For over twenty years World Impact and The Urban Ministry Institute have been equipping church planters working among the urban poor in the United States and around the world. Thousands of urban church leaders have received church plant training during this time and more than 150 church plants have been commissioned in partnership with local churches, associations, and denominations. World Impact and The Urban Ministry Institute (TUMI) are looking for partners who are called to plant new churches among the poor. During the next six years World Impact and TUMI hope to see at least 300 new churches planted in America’s inner cities. The Evangel School of Urban Church Planting provides a tool for urban churches, denominations, and mission agencies to host a contextualized church plant school in their city or region for those God has called to plant churches among the urban poor. While the original Evangel School of Urban Church Planting was held in 2000, the year 2015 was the first time that TUMI officially certified other groups to run Evangel Church Planting Schools. In order to host an Evangel School, it is necessary for each potential church plant school to send at least two deans for certification to an Evangel Dean Training. Visit www.tumi.org/evangel for more information.