About Us

Why does UTM exist?

The mission of Urban Transformation Ministries is to break the fatherless cycle in urban communities through the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ.

How does UTM break the fatherless cycle?

  • Discipling – UTM aims to fill the daddy-gap through long-term, life-on-life discipling relationships with urban youth and young adults. This includes teaching them to know their Heavenly Father, finding their identity in Christ, and raising them up as Christian leaders who will remain in the community to live and lead.
  • Equipping – Helping urban youth and adults obtain the spiritual, emotional, relational, educational, and economic tools to break the cycle of fatherlessness
  • Connecting – Creating social capital for fatherless youth and young adults through connections to non-profits, mentors, counselors, businessmen/women, churches, city resources, entrepreneurs, and a whole host of individuals and groups that offer resources to help change lives.
  • Educating – Equipping individuals, churches, and other organizations to minister to the fatherless and poor through training workshops, seminars, college-level classes, articles, books, blog posts, curriculum, internships, consulting, and urban immersion trips.

What has been the result of breaking the fatherless cycle?

Through its emphasis on life-on-life mentoring relationships, many UTM students turned away from the street life of gangs and selling drugs, experiencing transformation through Jesus Christ. They now hold living wage jobs, started businesses, and are raising their families. Several others that resisted the street-life graduated from high school and then from college and began careers as Christian businessmen and women, social workers, teachers, and youth development workers

Incorporated in 2004 as a not-for-profit. Now a 501c3.