World Impact is a Christian missions organization dedicated to facilitating church-planting movements as quickly as possible by evangelizing, equipping and empowering the unchurched urban poor.Through prayer, the power of the Holy Spirit and the proclamation of the Gospel in word and deed, we will facilitate a church-plant movement in Los Angeles County by 2010. We will plant 12 healthy and reproducing churches through equipped staff and innovative partnerships. Our holistic ministries strengthen these churches.Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.



In 1965, Keith Phillips began a Bible club for children in a federal housing project in the Watts community of Los Angeles. Before long, neighboring housing projects asked him to expand his ministry into their communities. Encouraged by these invitations, Keith recruited 300 college volunteers to help respond to these requests for ministry.World Impact LA is now one of 10 inner cities across the US where World Impact is planting churches.