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TUMI.org changes colors on its website to reflect the colors of the current season of the Church Year! God's Suffering Servant, our 2008-09 Church Year Calendar, is available for purchase now! Get your copies today!
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Church Year Season
The Current Church Year Season
 The Season after Epiphany
The Manifestation of Christ
The Feast of Epiphany on January 6 commemorates the coming of the Magi which reveals Christ’s mission to the world. The light of God’s salvation is revealed to all peoples in the person of Jesus, the Son of God. Church Year Seasons
Lectionary
Lectionary and Teaching Resources
 Come, join us on our biblical journey! Many traditions use the Revised Common Lectionary as their through-the-Bible reading guide, handy for both preaching and public reading of Scripture in worship, small group, or private devotions.
TUMI Annual
TUMI Yearly Theme, 2008-09: Like A Master Builder
 This year we focus on Christ as our foundation, the anchor and stronghold of our lives and ministry; like master builders, we build on that Foundation given to us by the apostles, Jesus Christ. This is the organizing center of our spiritual formation and ministry programming for the 2008-09 Church Year.
Church Year Calendar
Church Year Calendar 2008-09: God's Suffering Servant
Our Church Year calendar has just arrived! God's Suffering Servant, is a remarkable visual presentation of the 2008-2009 Christian Year, and includes Year B weekly lectionary texts, the major Christian services and holy days, with commentary on their scope and meaning.
Book Picks
Book Picks
 Out of Ashes by Dr. Keith Phillips Against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Out of Ashes lays out a viable strategy of Kingdom engagement that proves the Church can make a difference in the unreached cities of America and the world.
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Christ, The Sure Foundation |
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 Let God Arise! Devotion of the Month
This year, our theme for our spiritual formation and theological reflection concentrates on the strong and building theme (pun intended!) of Christ as our Foundation. Throughout the year we will concentrate on a critical aspect of this rich metaphor and analogy, seeking to learn what it means to both trust upon God as our Foundation and Strength, and build upon that Foundation as a master builder in the lives of others.
In his first epistle to the Corinthians, Paul describes his work of apostleship and ministry in terms of laboring in a field, and then shifts the metaphor to working on a building, that is, operating as a craftsman as be constructs a super-structure, built on a sure foundation (1 Cor. 3.9-15). Paul uses this metaphor, relating the church and believers to a field, a temple, and a building. In describing his role and responsibility as God’s laborer on behalf of the Church, he addresses the need for Christian leaders to be “master builders,” construction workers for the Lord.
The phrase translated “wise master builder” could have easily been translated as “wise architect” (i.e., Greek, hos sophos architekton), and this is the only NT example of the old and common terms architekon, from which we get our word “architect.” Its use in ancient writings speak of a worker in wood or stone, a carpenter or mason who fashions and engineers an exquisite dwelling or place, who builds a structure that is both elegant and strong. Paul draws an analogy here that suggests that Christian leaders like workmen and work-women do their ministry under the direction of God, building on the one Foundation that has been laid, the only One ever to be laid, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Not all who labor on a building do the same task, nor do they do them at the same time, nor with the same scope and impact. God himself arranges the workers, overseeing the various appointments, responsibilities, and checking carefully for his desired results that each one of his “crew” has been assigned. God is the architect, not Paul and the other apostles. God alone provides the gifts, lays out the blueprints, gives the increase, and holds the workers accountable for their labor. Whether our work be deemed by God to be expert, unwise, or even destructive, he alone determines the value of it, and ultimately, he holds us answerable for the caliber of our work. Each worker, as God’s appointed laborer, builds on the foundation that he himself has laid, and each effort will be accessed and rewarded in kind (cf. 1 Cor. 3.12-15). Read more |
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Revival Prayer for the Cities, Renewed Spirituality for the Church
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See how the Great Tradition of the ancient, undivided church can help us to live faithfully for Christ in the midst of a broken, alienated society.
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Our Parent Ministry
The Urban Ministry Institute is a ministry of World Impact, Inc.
Our Ministry Objectives
The Urban Ministry Institute equips leaders for the urban church, especially among those in greatest need, in order to advance the Kingdom of God.
To Equip Urban Christian Leaders
As a national training arm of World Impact, TUMI equips leadership for the urban church, especially among the poor, in order to advance the Kingdom of God.
To Empower Church Planting Movements
TUMI is dedicated to empowering church planting movements to reach and transform cities in America and around the world.
To Establish TUMI Satellites
We establish satellites in strategic partnerships with other likeminded churches and ministries in order to empower them to equip urban leaders for ministry and to advance the Kingdom of God in the city.
To Provide Urban Ministry Resources
TUMI strives to provide urban churches with affordable, quality resources for leadership development, church renewal, spiritual formation, and pioneer mission.
To Retrieve the Great Tradition
We seek to retrieve and be informed by the Great Tradition in theology, spirituality, and service, i.e., that biblical thought and practice of the ancient, undivided Church which represents that evangelical, apostolic, and universal core of Christian faith and practice.
To Promote Urban Church Renewal
TUMI seeks to renew and mobilize urban churches for effective worship, Christian community, and evangelical mission in the city, especially among those most hurting and neglected.
To Enrich Spiritual Formation
As TUMI strives to reconnect urban churches to the vitality of the Great Tradition, so we also explore ways to see how that same tradition can spiritually enrich and re-form our personal and congregational worship and discipleship.
To Advance Pioneer Urban Missions
TUMI collaborates with other like-minded churches and organizations to multiply and leverage its resources in order to advance pioneer missions among the urban unreached, especially among the poor.
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