Free Life Skills Class – Become a Stronger and Healthier You
by Professor: Dr. David Feddes
You are part of God’s special operations. Your mission is to reclaim the world for Christ. You have been saved and called to help. This class is about helping you to become a stronger and healthier you. This free life skills class is perfect for living a more confident and healthy life!
This free life skills class gives you Biblical insights and practical knowledge that make you stronger for your mission. Each topic is applied to your spiritual, physical, financial, intellectual, emotional, relational, and vocational dimensions of life.
Dr. David Feddes will bring you through the crucial areas of total fitness for you to thrive in leading others.
You will Learn and Grow in this free life skills class
- Total fitness: hear God’s call to embrace practical wisdom and discipline for strengthening the whole person.
- Spiritual fitness: draw near to God and stand stronger against Satan through spiritual disciplines.
- Physical fitness: know why the body matters to God, improve bodily health, and use body language well.
- Financial fitness: earn a good living, escape debt, build wealth, honor God and bless others with money.
- Intellectual fitness: build healthy curiosity, sharp thinking, lifelong study, and courage to stand for truth,
- Emotional fitness: learn to face feelings honestly and discover God working through emotions.
- Relational fitness: heal from past relational wrongs and wounds, and interact with others in a wise and godly manner
- Vocational fitness: pursue God’s calling for job, career, and other tasks.
You are welcome to take this free life skills Class supported by generous vision partners. These vision partners include blessed Christian Leaders Institute Graduates, Kingdom-minded Christians and Foundations, and others.
Begin your free life skills course now! You will begin by taking a Getting Started Orientation class. Then you are encouraged to enroll in the Christian Leaders Connection Class which helps you get situated at Christian Leaders Institute. You are also free to immediately take this Total Fitness class by Dr. David Feddes.
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Called to Teach the Children
My name is Donna Dillinger, and God calls me to “teach the children.” I live in the USA. I knew the Lord in my childhood and felt His presence and protection until I experienced trauma at twelve years old. Then, I was so angry with Him that I walked away from Him. I spent the next 15 years lost.
After ten miscarriages and no hope from my doctors, I broke down and wailed to God. I repented for my lost years, pleaded for a baby, and asked for His help. I promised to teach my child about Him if He blessed me with one. Within weeks, my husband had a new job and new health insurance. I had a new doctor who knew exactly the issue and how to overcome it. My daughter was born that very year, and I remembered my promise.
God’s Call to Teach the Children
I read the Bible to equip myself better to teach her. It took me three years to read the entire Bible. By the time I finished, I was pregnant with my third daughter. God performed many miracles in our lives during that time. I continued to study, went to church bi-weekly with my family, and read to them about God daily. I asked God how I could serve Him, and I repeatedly heard, “Teach the children.” Since I was already teaching my children, I began to volunteer at church at the children’s Sunday school.
After my fourth child (a son) was born, my first child was due to start school. We homeschooled her for preschool and kindergarten and were to register her for first grade. That morning, I awoke with a terrible sense of dread. I had a dream I couldn’t remember, though the ominous feeling of it stayed with me. I felt sick and shaky and couldn’t make myself get in the car to take her. My husband thought I had separation anxiety and suggested we homeschool her for another year, and the feeling of dread dissipated.
Several months later, the school we were going to take her to was on the news, and that feeling of dread returned. As I watched the horror of the school shooting, I recalled that in my dream, my daughter was a victim. I was so grateful to God for saving her.
On the Move
We gave up our home and earthly possessions and prayed that God would lead us in a new path to a different kind of life. Traveling across the states, we camped, stayed in several temporary homes, and lived a frugal life. We ended up in Ohio for several years, where I began volunteering in Sunday school again. Children in our neighborhood who did not attend church showed up on our doorstep, and I read them Bible stories.
Getting Formal Training for Children’s Ministry at CLI
After the birth of our fifth child, we continued our journey across the states. We drove to Washington to catch a ferry to Alaska. During this blessed journey, there was not one mishap. Once we arrived, everything fell into place perfectly. We found a furnished home to rent in our first 24 hours here.
Next, I applied for a position to teach Sunday school, and the interview went well except for one exception. I did not have formal training, and my many years of experience in childcare and teaching the Bible could not make up for that. So here I am at the Christian Leaders Institute beginning ministry training to better equip myself to “teach the children.”
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Free Ministry Preparation Courses at CLI
My name is Dennis Cunningham, and I am taking free ministry preparation courses at CLI. I am from Central Illinois in the United States. My wife and I have been blessed with a large family; we have seven children and four grandchildren. I grew up in Central Illinois. I never went to church when I was young but did have many questions in my head all the time. My oldest brother was the first to go to church. I was a senior in High School when he gave his life to the Lord. He was always talking to me about the Lord and the Gospel. I had many questions but usually never asked them.
The Lord Entered My Life
I remember staying at his house one weekend, and I was drinking a beer. It was late, and my brother was already in bed. I flipped through the TV stations. For some reason, I stopped at the PTL club. Jim Baker was talking about Jesus dying on the cross as my brother mentioned. I remember it like it was yesterday. The preacher pointed at the camera and said,” Young man, you need to dump that beer down the drain.” I’m sure I broke a record running to the kitchen from the living room. That night I prayed for the Lord to come into my life.
Struggles
However, I fell back into the world after a few months. For twenty years, I was back and forth and up and down with my Christianity. During that time, I married and had kids. Things seemed to go well for a while, but not living for the Lord finally caught up with me. My wife and I ended up separating (alcohol and drugs had a significant part in it), and she divorced me.
I lost everything: my wife, my kids, my home, everything. I went to a dark place in my life and pushed the people I loved away. Then I met a woman who was willing to stand beside me, knowing there was a better man inside of me. We started a new family, and things were okay, but not great. I knew what was missing. I began to think more and more about God. Once again, my oldest brother was talking to me about God and the church. However, I was very stubborn.
Turning Point
Then something changed my life, and it changed forever. On Christmas Eve, one of my sons was diagnosed with leukemia. I was devastated. Everything I knew at that time took a backseat to him. In the middle of the night, I got up and went downstairs to get a drink. I went to the back door and stepped out on the patio. It was a crisp January evening, and the sky was clear. I saw millions of stars. It was like God shouting, “You see it! I’m here!” I broke and cried like a one-year-old. I begged God for healing for my son.
However, as I sat there, something inside me started to ache. I suddenly stood up and looked to the sky and told God, “Whether my son lives or dies, I will serve you the rest of my life!” Three years later, my son went to be with the Lord.
Called and Taking Free Ministry Preparation Courses at CLI
Ever since that night, I have served and lived for the Lord. I’m getting ready to retire, and I want to serve Him fulltime now. I’m an elder at my church, and I help in the children’s church and fill in for my Pastor and preach when he is gone.
But, there is so much more I need to learn and so much more to do. Therefore, God brought me to the Christian Leaders Institute so I could receive free ministry preparation courses. I am on the road that God has prepared for me to lead others to the Kingdom of God. Here I am, Lord, use me!
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New Ministry Study Journey at CLI
Hello, my name is Cynita Slater, and I am on a new ministry study journey at CLI. I am from the United States by way of Texas. Soon, I will relocate to sunny Arizona. I am a proud mother of five beautiful children, four boys, and a girl. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, I hold a Bachelor’s and a Master of Arts degree. I have been in and out of church all my life, until approximately three years ago, where I recommitted my heart to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Early Church Experience
I did not grow up in a church. When I was young, I attended a Baptist church with my mom. That lasted for a while, but it faded out, and she stopped going, I never knew why. God seemed to have a better plan for me. Around the age of ten, I found myself back in church, but this time my mom was not involved. I went to Vacation Bible School with a friend. I was so excited to learn about Jesus, so I continued to attend church after VBS was over. As a young child, I walked to church on Sundays. It was only a few blocks from my house. I was baptized in the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit on August 17, 1983.
God Provides
All my life, I have been in and out of the church, however, mostly out. My life has been one struggle after another. I married the first time for thirteen years. He spent the majority of those years in jail, so I raised children on my own. Through every struggle, God always provided a way through, from being homeless with five kids, low income, and bad credit. Yet, God provided me with an apartment, made sure my bills were paid every month, and my family had food on the table. It was God because I barely made enough for my rent.
Even as I made one wrong decision after another in the marriage field, God always picked me up and started me on my way again. He never left me. At the time, I did not pay attention to Him covering me. It wasn’t until I was really in the world, enjoying all the world had to offer, that I found God again. A friend I worked with asked me to visit her church. I went a few times and felt comfortable and at home. My children and I started attending regularly. We became invested in the church as a family. That is where my real walk with God began.
Spiritual Warfare and Growth
I married an elder of the church. Then, I became more invested in my walk with God. It wasn’t because I was married to an elder. I had to cover my husband in prayer. I did not see how disconnected from his walk he was until after we married. In that long year, I spent more time on my knees praying for my husband and our marriage. I did not know what a prayer closet was, but I had one. Through the preacher and author, Tony Evans, I learned about spiritual warfare. I needed to know how-to put-on God’s armor and fight a good fight.
On May 15, 2017, I came home from work to a half-empty house and no husband. He left me for another woman. I could not believe it, but God was with me. Many days, I spent crying like a baby. I was a strong woman at work and in the world, but cradled in my Father’s arms, like a baby, when I was at home.
Then one day, when I was praying and crying to my Father, he told me, “Get up, I built you for this.” I couldn’t argue with God, so I got up and dusted myself off and turned it over to God. I have been trying to follow God’s plan ever since. I am a sinner, so I have faltered, but I dust myself off, ask for forgiveness, and try again.
New Direction and New Ministry Study Journey for Free at CLI
God has not blessed me with a husband, but I am being patient and waiting on Him. It is no longer my will but His. He blessed me with a best friend of over twenty years, who is a pastor. I have supported her in her ministry for many years, but that was her thing, not mine. She started a church in Arizona and asked me to join her to help her out. I was very reluctant at first. I thought that I was not good enough to be a servant of God, but I was wrong. As I read the Bible and asked questions, I learned differently. I will be moving to Arizona in July.
Then, I started looking for a way to gain more knowledge of ministry and being part of a church. I could not afford to attend another college because of all the debt I already had from college. So, I turned to the internet, and I found the Christian Leaders Institute. I started to read about the organization and asked my friend if she had heard of CLI. She had, so I started classes. I am so excited about my new ministry study journey and what it holds for me. I walk my new ministry study journey day by day, step by step.
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