Dr. Don Davis, founder, and former director of The Urban Ministry Institute, and Senior Executive Advisor, World Impact, has been involved in urban ministry and missions with World Impact since 1975. He has spent his entire ministry career seeking to raise up a new generation of qualified spiritual leaders, pastors, and church planters who can build up Christ’s church in the most vulnerable and unreached urban communities in America and across the world. As of June 2024, there are 381 TUMI satellites in 18 countries (72 sites of which are in jails or prisons), and 755 Church Plant Teams equipped who are planting new churches around the world! (Bangladesh, East Africa, Mexico, Tanzania, a closed country, Pakistan, Ethiopia, and the US).

Dr. Davis is a graduate of Wheaton College (B.A., Biblical Studies) and Wheaton Graduate School (M. A., Systematic Theology,) with summa cum laude honors in both degrees respectively. He earned his Ph.D. in Religion (2000, Theology and Ethics) from the University of Iowa School of Religion. A recipient of numerous teaching and academic awards, he has also authored a number of books, curricula, and study materials all to equip, empower, and release biblical leaders to serve the Church of Jesus among the poor and oppressed, and display Kingdom transformation where they live and minister. He married his wife, Beth in February 1975 and together they have three children (one deceased), and four grandchildren.