Core Values

As an evangelical ministry to the city, The Urban Ministry Institute seeks to integrate its spiritual formation, projects, and ministries around a set of deeply held values that direct our efforts and shape our commitments. The following concise list represents the core values that we prize, those commitments and insights which enable us to pursue our goals and take advantage of our opportunities. Together, they represent a clear snapshot of our most deeply cherished truths, those ideas which inform and direct our actions and outreaches here.

  • 1 The Calling of God
  • 2 The Centrality of the Church
  • 3 God's Election of the Humble
  • 4 The Kingdom of God
  • 5 The Power of Community
  • 6 The Standard of Excellence
  • 7 The Explosiveness of Multiplication
  • We do all we do fully assured that God is at this very moment calling, gifting, and anointing men and women in the city to represent his interests there, and are convinced that these chosen city leaders will be the vessels through whom he advances his Kingdom.
  • We hold deeply the conviction that effective ministry takes place in the Body of Christ, the agent of the Kingdom, where we facilitate the multiplication of healthy, reproducing urban churches, especially among the poor.
  • We possess a certitude that God has chosen those who are poor in the eyes of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the Kingdom which He promised to those who love Him (James 2:5).
  • We are burdened to see the freedom, wholeness, and justice of the Kingdom of God embodied, celebrated, and proclaimed in church communities who show visibly what the "Rule of God" looks like when it is embraced by people who acknowledge Christ's lordship.
  • We share a passion to employ innovative distance education programming to create and outfit a network of training centers in urban areas that provide excellent,affordable, and spiritually dynamic ministry education that is sensitive to urban culture.
  • We are held by the consuming belief that all effective, credible leadership development demands the requisite formality and rigor of disciplined excellence, with a flat refusal to be remedial or second-class.
  • We are zealous to facilitate and empower urban church planting movements that share a common spirituality, express freedom in cultural expression, and strategically combine their resources to reach and transform the cities of America and the world.

 

 

 

 

 

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Upcoming Summit

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TUMI Satellite Summit: February 10-12, 2017

Forging Identity: Destroying Strongholds, Forming Christlikeness

We are looking forward to our upcoming Summit in February, 2017. The theme of this year's conference is Forging Identity: Destroying Strongholds, Forming Christlikeness. We will explore the idea of training and educating for the sake of helping our students come to know who they are in Christ, combating the lies of the enemy to interfere with that affirmation, and the practical methods to help them achieve this goal. We’ll use video clips from Glory (in case you want to watch it ahead of time). It is a film about one of the first military units of the Union Army during the American Civil War to be made up entirely of African-American men (except for its officers), the 54th, a regiment known for their heroic actions.

PLEASE NOTE: You can go directly to the registration page by typing www.tumi.org/summit2017 into your url. The register button is at the top right and bottom right of the page.

Workshops
We will again be offering workshops on Saturday of the conference (February 11) from 1:00-2:30, 2:45-4:15. Our workshop presenters will tie into our overall theme of Forging Identity, with particular insight from their workshop topic. You can sign up for your desired workshops during registration.

TUMI International Headquarters Tour
We will again host a tour of TUMI International Headquarters during the free time on Saturday. This is limited to the first 30 who register for this site tour. Please select this option during registration (in the workshop section).

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