I am Thompson Emmanuel Anu, from Ghana in West Africa, and I have a mission ministry passion from God. I am a second-year master’s student at Shanghai Maritime University pursing M.Eng. Transport Planning and Management.
In my Junior High School, I encountered a gentleman who started praying and sharing the word of God with us. However, I never believed anything because I thought the foundation of the church he attended was not Jesus. Almost all the rich men in the town attended that church, and there were many miracles in the church.
Coming to Know Christ
After some time passed, I went to High School where a lady invited me to her church. And, to my surprise, it was the same church the gentleman was attending but a different branch of it. This time I thought okay and went on a youth camp meeting with them in the month of August in 2013. On the second day of the camp meeting, a lady preached about “remembering God in your youthful age.” I felt as if the lady was speaking to only me at that moment.
After her message, she made an altar call. Then, for the first time, I heard a voice saying to me, “Go and give your life to Christ, and let Him make your life beautiful.” Among more than 500 youths, I was the only one who went to the front. So, God saved me that day.
My Passion and Ministry Training at CLI
I have a mission ministry passion and enjoy speaking to others about Christ. I have been to countless missions, served as youth president and pastor. Currently, I am now serving as a university connect group leader in Hillsong Church – Shanghai Connect. I am also the President of the Ghana student group in Shanghai. Further, I have different youth mentorship groups.
I was looking for free ministry training online and found the Christian Leaders Institute. I am looking forward to seeing how God will use this training in my ministry life.
Learn more about ordination at the Christian Leaders Alliance. Interested in a low-cost degree? Check out the CLI’s Leadership Excellence School.
Study Anywhere in the World for Free at CLI
I am Angelique Gill, married to my wonderful Pakistani husband since 2019. We live in Amersfoort, The Netherlands currently. However, at CLI, I can study anywhere in the world that God may call us. I grew up in a Catholic family, but we only went to church on special holidays. As my dad passed away when I was two, I grew up as the only child of my mom. My mom was a gymnastics coach, and I loved coming with her to practice.
Sports, School, and Church
Unfortunately, I was an outsider from preschool to High School in my country. It had to do with me being smart and good at gymnastics. People had a hard time accepting that. They bullied me from junior high to High School for not following the crowd. The bullying made me vulnerable, feeling alone, and not accepted, however, it did not break me. At a very young age, I did not join other kids when they started smoking and going out.
Even though I was not aware of it at that time, the Lord was already having His eye on me. At age 11, I felt I had to go to the Catholic Church service on Sunday. I went there by myself for some months and also joined Sunday Bible class in the Protestant school I attended. But because I didn’t really know where I belonged in faith (Catholic or Protestant), I did not continue going there. I started to train more hours for gymnastics and ballet. By the age of 16, I was training up to 20 hours a week for gymnastics and did a lot of competitions.
My Testimony
Every year we also had a gymnastics club championship. I received third and second place but had not been club champion ever. It was mostly because of nerves. At the age of 16, I wanted to become the club champion. The night before that club championship, I prayed in my bed. I said, “Lord God, if you exist, please let me win tomorrow.” Amazingly, at that moment, I heard an audible male voice answer me, “I will let you win, but then you will know I am real.” It flabbergasted me because we did not have any males in my house.
The next morning, I woke up and went to the gymnastics meet. Instead of being nervous as I normally always was, I was very peaceful. We started with the balance beam, and I had an excellent routine and did not fall off once. My rival got very nervous then. The other three apparatus also went great. To my surprise and others too, I became the club champion that year. What an amazing way the Lord showed His presence!
Becoming His Child
Now I knew He was real. But how could I become His child? I did not know. The Lord had it all planned out. By the age of 17, I became an exchange student in Colorado Springs, CO, USA. That was my biggest dream since I was 11. I was placed in a wonderful Christian family with whom I am still in touch today. That year changed my life forever.
My Christian family took me to an evangelical church, where I also joined a wonderful active youth group. So in October 1989 in the USA, I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior. For the first time ever, I got real friends at school, church, and in the gymnastics team. It was really awesome to find out I was respected and valued for the person I was. The Lord used that year abroad to grow me spiritually and mentally and prepared me for life.
Family Life
After returning to The Netherlands, I started working for the government. I married a Christian man, and we had two sons. After 12.5 years of marriage, my husband divorced me. I ended up raising my two young sons alone. In the meantime, my sons and I were struggling with severe allergies and asthma. It was a hard time but, with God’s support, we were able to manage.
Growing in the Lord
After the divorce, I searched for more of God. For the past 12 years, I served in the church as a singer on the worship team, children’s worker, hospitality team member, and more. However, the presence of the Holy Spirit began missing in that church. I felt stuck and doors closed. About eight years ago, I changed to a church where the Holy Spirit was very present. The Lord opened doors, and I became part of the translation team. Within a few months, I took over leadership of that team and led it up to July 2019.
Healing
Ever since 1993, I knew the Lord had a calling for me in the healing ministry. However, I never knew exactly how. I got into reading books and watching videos about Biblical healing and deliverance. Besides that, I challenged the Lord to heal me of severe asthma and allergies, so I could be His witness. He did!
After being prayed for in 2015, the Lord healed me from all allergies. Then, at the end of a conference in January 2016, He completely healed me from asthma. Hallelujah!! I was and am so very happy and thankful. After my healing, the Lord started to use me more to pray for healing for others, and He has healed many. I also started up a Connect Group in church about Biblical healing which I led for three years!
My Calling
During my quiet time with God, in January 2017, the Lord called me to be an evangelist. I was surprised by that calling and asked Him for confirmation by two people. In June 2017, I received my first confirmation from an English prophet who I translated for two days. In September 2017, I was at a big conference serving in the ministry team, when I got prophesied over by an American evangelist that the Lord wanted me to be an evangelist. I was so happy with both confirmations.
Evangelistic Training
After receiving those confirmations, I started to search for evangelistic training anywhere. In 2018, I was accepted into the School of Evangelism at Christ for all Nations (USA) and it was a wonderful week of Evangelism training. During that week, the Lord opened doors I had never imagined. He created opportunities for me to preach for the first time in Pakistan and India over Messenger, Skype, and Whatsapp. Jesus showed His faithfulness by healing the sick as well.
Mission Trip
After training in the USA, it became very obvious that the Lord wanted me to go to Pakistan as an evangelist. The Lord provided in everything, and in October 2018 I flew out to Pakistan by myself (since others were afraid to go). I had a wonderful 10 days there preaching and visiting in churches, houses, women’s conferences, schools, and a sowing center. The Lord proved his faithfulness by keeping me safe during my stay there.
Marriage
After coming back from this mission trip, the Lord did something extraordinary. He got me connected over Messenger with a wonderful Christian Pakistani man. We fell in love with each other and received confirmation about our relationship from friends, pastors, and evangelists in the world. After the Lord also showed us my husband has the same calling as I do, we got married last year in Pakistan. Now we are planning to do ministry together. We wondered if there was a school that we could study at anywhere in the world.
CLI Ministry Training: Study Anywhere in the World
For years, I wanted to attend Bible School. However, I did not have the finances as a single mom, working part-time, and having to pay for everything myself. I also did not get permission from the Lord to study at expensive Bible Schools. When searching the internet, I came across the website of the Christian Leaders Institute. As I looked at it for a friend in Pakistan, the fact that CLI is a free Bible School amazed me. Further, the name of CLI got stuck in my head. After I read more about it, I felt in my spirit I was to do classes here. That’s when I applied and received my scholarship for which I am very thankful. It gives me the opportunity to start my study while we are in the process of obtaining a staying permit for my husband.
My main reason to study is to get deeper into the Word. I want to grow and become an ordained pastor or minister. I also want to gain much more knowledge to use in ministry. Eventually, I would love to get a bachelor’s degree or even a Master’s degree. Whatever my path will be, I know that God will use me and my husband for His work. He calls us, and we will go wherever He wants us to go. That is also why CLI is the best option for me. I can study anywhere in the world and that brings tremendous freedom, peace, and joy.
Learn more about ordination at the Christian Leaders Alliance. Interested in a low-cost degree? Check out the CLI’s Leadership Excellence School.
God is the Potter, and I am the Clay
Hi, my name is James Campbell, and I have a bi-vocational ministry aviation call on my life. I grew up in Northeast Ohio in the U.S.A. I was born into a non-Christian home. We did Christianity things and modeled what a Christian family looks like from a worldview, but that is it. I attended public grade school, which spoke nothing of spirituality or God. My status in high school and college was an atheist. I developed terrible friends and influences. In college, I was just into hanging out with the wrong crowd. After this period of rebellion, my older sister invited me to move down to Merritt Island, Florida, to live with her and her family.
In 2005, my older sister introduced me to a local Evangelical church. So I worked and lived on the Island for about eight months. During my stay there, I spent a lot of time with Rick, my brother-in-law. Rick worked for NASA during the shuttle program years. Rick got me interested in Aviation. After I matured a bit, I moved back to Ohio. In 2008, I graduated from the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics. I then met my future wife. Together we started attending a small local Evangelical Free Church, and in 2009, at age 24, I became a Christian!
My Marriage, Family, and Growing in Christ
In 2010, Elizabeth (my wife) and I married and together moved to Pennsylvania for a job. There we attended a small congregation called Grace Reformed and then Christ Evangelical Free Church, near Strausstown, Pennsylvania. There on our own, I began to grow as a Christian. God matured my faith during our time there. God surrounded us with Christian friends and mentors. In the Evangelical Church, I learned the importance of faith, becoming a disciple, and the need for the gospel to go forth. In the Reformed Church, I learned the importance of solid grounding in God’s Word, Sovereignty, and Grace. Therefore, both of these churches have had a significant impact on my life that I cannot put into words.
In 2016, my wife and I had our first child. Being a father has grown me a lot. God has orchestrated that for sure. Though not perfect yet, I have an irresistible calling to learn and serve. I am still growing in my faith by practicing and applying God’s Word to my life. Then as God’s chosen, holy, and beloved, I put on compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience (Colossians 3:12).
Studying at CLI for My Ministry Aviation Call
I have daily prayed Psalms 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there is any grievous way in me, and lead in the way of everlasting!” I want to strive to have a humble heart, with Christ’s humility as an example for me. Though He existed in the form of God, Christ did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped. He made himself nothing, taking on the form of a servant. Being born in the human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross (Philippians 2:6-8).
My previous education and work experience are Project Management, Certification; George Washington University; Aviation Maintenance Technology A.M.T., Diploma; Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics; and Maintenance and Aircraft Management.
Currently, my profession is Aviation Maintenance. It is my goal here at the Christian Leaders Institute is to complete a Divinity Degree for future bi-vocational ministry aviation roles in my call. I want to be more effective in my family life and in building the Kingdom. To preach the Gospel and the unsearchable riches of Christ are my desire.
Learn more about ordination at the Christian Leaders Alliance. Interested in a low-cost degree? Check out the CLI’s Leadership Excellence School.