About Us

The IMPACT Ministry Training Center (IMTC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to fostering professional growth through innovative and collaborative training methods. Located in northern New Jersey, just under an hour from New York City, IMTC actively cultivates a global community of leaders, having equipped over 7,000 individuals from all 50 states and more than 100 countries over the past three decades. By emphasizing collaboration and peer learning environments, IMTC empowers leaders and organizations to effectively meet diverse and evolving challenges, promoting shared success across cultural and geographic boundaries.

The IMTC was founded by David D. Ireland, Ph.D, the lead pastor of Christ Church, a 13,000-member Evangelistic, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multisite church in New Jersey. A former diversity consultant for the National Basketball Association, he's led chapel services for the NY Giants, Jets, and at the U.S. Pentagon. His ministry spans over 75 nations, training leaders worldwide, from Australia's outback to Kenya's Rift Valley, Harvard, Indonesia's mountains, and even behind the post-communist walls of Slovakia.

He is a well-respected columnist contributing to such media outlets like Fox News and Huffington Post. He has authored over 30 books, including Raising a Child Who Prays and The Kneeling Warrior. Dr. Ireland is working to launch The CARE Center, an integrative suite of services within a 123,000-square foot facility at his Rockaway, NJ Campus. This innovative endeavor includes a legal clinic, food pantry, clothing program, mental health services, and 20 other social justice services to empower the marginalized and under-resourced.

Rev. Ireland holds a graduate degree in engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, a master's in theology from Alliance Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. in organizational leadership from Regent University and completed post-doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he holds a postgraduate degree in social innovation from the University of Cambridge. Recently appointed to the Governor's Advisory Commission on Faith-Based Initiatives, he and his wife, Dr. Marlinda Ireland, have been married since 1984, with two adult daughters and a son-in-law.

What Others Are Saying

"If you're tired of conversations on culture being high-pitch shouting duologues and yearn for respectful, attentive dialogues; if you want to move conversations on race from hubs of mistrust, huddles of hunches and hammocks of evasions and equivocations; if you want to enter reconciling arenas of action and reconciliation, this is the book for you. It shows in theory and practice how to look at each other with Jesus' eyes. David Ireland has written the book we have all been hoping for and waiting on." Leonard Sweet
Best-Selling Author, Professor (George Fox University, Drew University, Tabor College), and Founder of Preachthestory.com
David Ireland writes in his compelling book, "One in Christ,” that you can't start a meaningful conversation on race with strangers but only with people who trust you. Dr. Ireland can be trusted. He has earned the right to be heard on the topic of racial reconciliation and cross-cultural ministry since he writes not as an unproven theorist but as a practitioner, pastor, and prophet. "One in Christ” is a critical book for our times. Dan Backens
Lead Pastor & Senior Director, New Life Church & One Focus Network in Virginia
I coach people in the area of money management. Dr. Ireland coaches people in the area of diversity and the development of cross-cultural skills. Having sat under his teaching ministry for years I've watched him masterfully and gently shape a racially diverse audience into a community that has a singular focus—to honor Jesus in how we value each other. Through "One in Christ” he provides one-on-one coaching that will help you improve your effectiveness in the multicultural marketplace and community. Lynnette Khalfani-Cox
New York Times Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Personal Finance Expert
I've had the privilege of being with Dr. Ireland as he has ministered to members of the New York Giants at their pre-game chapel services. His godly character, knowledge of the Scriptures, and skillful presentations of God's Word encouraged and strengthened the men. ‘Ask him back' is the request I hear regularly from the athletes after Dr. Ireland visits. George McGovern
Athletes in Action-NFL Pro Director (former chapel leader of NY Giants)
I remember meeting Dr. David Ireland for the first time almost two decades ago and saying to myself—that is a smart, Jesus-loving, highly organized and gifted communicator of the Gospel and leadership. Dr. Samuel R. Chand
Author, Cracking Your Church's Culture Code
Dr. Ireland is a leader who truly embodies the messages he trumpets. His latest book is an important call to unity, as well as a practical how-to manual on achieving it. I recommend this vital message to you as well as its messenger, in hopes that we as a Body move into genuine, biblical friendships, which transcend every area of divide. Rev. Dr. Robert Stearns
Author of No, "We Can't: Radical Islam, Militant Secularism and the Myth of Coexistence”
Each time I have had the pleasure of spending time with Dr. Ireland I have gained insight into the depth of God's Word, the character of our Savior, and the nature of our Father. A trait I have found in only a handful of others. Kurt Warner
Hall of Fame NFL Quarterback

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