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My Journey to Free Bible Training Online
My name is Som Kharel, and I am receiving free Bible training online at CLI. Currently, I live in Grand Haven, Michigan. I married my husband, Bhim Kharel, in the year 2000. After almost two decades, we have a son named Babin, who is 16 years old, and a daughter Sulakshya, who is nine years old. My husband and I were born in Bhutan, and our son was born in Nepal in the Refugee camp. Our daughter was born in Worcester City, Massachusetts, USA.
Our Journey to the USA
We left Bhutan in 1991 because of the human rights violations in the country. A 
mass of Nepali ethnicity groups of people was expelled from the country. Then we met, married, and lived at a Refugee Camp in Nepal in those 19 years. Finally, God opened the door for us to resettle in one of eight different countries. So, we choose to come to the United States.
First, we moved from Nepal to Massachusetts. Then, we moved to Grand Haven, MI, because my side of the family was there. We also got an opportunity to go to Covenant Life Church. Church attendance was new for us as we had never before stepped into a Christian church. This fact was because I grew up in the Buddhist religion, and my husband grew up in the Hindu religion.
We married in two different religions and also inter-caste. In our society, it is still more difficult in the caste system. We had the baggage of hatred and discrimination in us from the past from our family and society backgrounds. So, when we arrived in Grand Haven, we had tiredness from spending much of our lives in the refugee camp.
My Journey to Christ
The help and support of the people of Covenant Life Church and how they took care of our family touched us. A year later, we accepted Jesus Christ. However, receiving His light seemed far from me because I was deeply hurt and wounded by religion. I thought that this kindness was something from western culture’s religion.
I didn’t want to go deeper so that it hurt me again. So, instead of seeking Jesus and knowing Him to have a deeper relationship with Him, I pushed Him far from me. Yet, I even accepted changing “religion” into a relationship in Christ. It was harder for me to understand the gospel and truth because of how we grew up in the past.
So, until things were starting to fall, I didn’t seek Jesus sincerely. But with the help of a group Bible study at the church, I found Christ to be real in my life and received His light. Through faith, I am saved by the grace of Jesus Christ. I will continue to grow in His grace and knowledge, filled with the Holy Spirit’s wisdom all the days of my life.
My Vision and Spiritual Dream
I got a vision to help our people to understand the gospel correctly and how to apply it in our lives each day. Then they can know about Jesus’ righteousness and explore the gospel truth. We will be together in unity of the body of Christ and the Spirit. To pour into the next generation is also a part of my spiritual dream.
My husband and I started to help our people to understand the truth, not just go to the church. We want to share Christ and start a small Bible study in our language to become part of a fellowship group. Soon, we plan to start a small church. My vision is to build a foundation of a Bhutanese and Nepali speaking church in this area. Also, we want to have a relationship and a connection with a local church here, sharing ideas and thoughts for doing life together. Nepal, Bhutan, India, and other countries will be reached through Christ’s name and sharing the gospel truth.
Free Bible Training Online at CLI
Recently, I found the Christian Leaders Institute from a church leader. I need leadership training to lead the group and also for accountability, recognition, and communication. Then we can build good leadership. CLI’s free Bible training will guide me in having excellent and proper ideas for leadership both now and in the future. I am very thankful for your highly supportive free Bible training. This free Bible training helps me to grow and to have a stronger relationship with God as I also build His kingdom.
Free Pastor Education at CLI
My name is Moffat Odhiambo Ayodo. I am from Kenya, Africa. Christian Leaders Institute with its free pastor education is a blessing. With the free pastor education, further spiritual growth and increased knowledge help my ministry.
Family Challenges
There was a time when the challenges that come with teenage life had their toll on me. My family was going through tough times. The prolonged sickness of my younger sister and my dad’s increased drinking were the cause. Then, the Lord, through a series of events and circumstances, revealed to me that my life had to change.
I just finished high school and had admission to one of the local universities to study for a Bachelor of Education (Science) degree. This degree would, later on, enable me to do a stint as a high school tutor. As the firstborn in a family of nine kids, I needed to demonstrate leadership now that our dad became irresponsible, was rarely at home, and hardly provided for us.
Need for God
The burden of bringing us up with minimal support from my father became too much for my mum. The few resources she could put together from her small business scarcely supported the whole family. While in college during that first year, I struggled to concentrate on studies. The thought of the situation back at home often made things very difficult. It is at this point that I knew I needed God’s intervention.
I started attending Christian meetings that were being held on campus every Wednesday. During one of those meetings, a message on wholeheartedly following God was preached from the story of Caleb, son of Jephunneh. It grabbed me by the collar. I felt an overwhelming pull and desire in my heart to take God seriously. The pattern for my life was the excellent example provided by Caleb, who demonstrated such unflinching faith even in his old age despite the difficulties of the times. From then on, I attended church regularly. The grace of God, which is ever sufficient, has seen me grow from a timid young man to a hard-working servant of our Lord Jesus Christ.
While serving in the church, I went from a lay Sunday school teacher to a pastorate position in a small but growing church. I saw God deliver my father from alcohol and my sister miraculously healed. Praise be to the name of Jesus!
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Online Ministry Training for Free
My name is Rochelle White, and I am receiving ministry training for free at CLI. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, in the United States of America, I am a divorced mother of two boys. I was with my ex-husband for 20 years, and from that union, we had Stanwyck (22) and Gabriel (19).
During my marriage, I was a stay at home mom focused on homeschooling my sons as well as my education. I obtained a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a Master’s in Business Administration, specialized in Human Resources. After that, I entered Concord Law School, where I obtained an Executive Juris Doctorate.
My parents divorced when I was a little girl. Our mother raised my oldest sister and me as a Baptist. We would go to church with my grandmother, but it was never consistent. I remember trying to listen to the pastor when he would speak but found that my mind would often wonder.
Saved by Grace
When I was 12, I remember there was this one sermon that hit me like a ton of bricks. I remember going up the aisle and giving my life to Jesus that day. But as a new Christian, I wasn’t exactly sure how to go about growing a relationship with God. My grandmother told me just to read my Bible.
All of my life, I’ve always felt that I was on the outside looking in. Like I never really fit in with any group. I always felt like I was alone. At the age of 14, I lived through a traumatic experience. Because of that experience, a friend of my mother’s invited me to go along with the kids from her church to church camp. So I took a friend of mine, and we joined them.
It was on that trip that I experienced God. I felt a heavy presence that seemed to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. I felt a peace like never before and no longer felt alone. My heart was completely open from that moment. By the time I came home from church camp, I had cried so much, especially if I had read or watched the news. I felt like my heart was breaking from seeing all of the devastating stories. I began feeling other people’s emotions and finding myself wanting to comfort them.
Marriage Struggles
Throughout my marriage to my ex-husband, I felt sad, stressed, and anger more than happiness, peace, and joy. I remember spending many days and nights talking to God, praying for my family, and for things to get better. My ex-husband was very emotionally and mentally abusive towards our children and me. I tried to teach our children about Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit. However, my ex-husband always found fault with things. He would not take us to church, so the boys and I watched different pastors on the television. He did not approve of them either and made us stop. We had to pray the exact way that he wanted. Thankfully, God kept me sane through it all.
Divorce and Health Concerns
Eventually, I turned 35, and my ex-husband decided to leave me for a younger woman. At that same time, I had a hard time moving my body. I lost the ability to walk and moved in with my parents. On January 1, 2016, I fell into a coma for two weeks after my throat closed. When I finally woke, it was to find my entire life changed more than I ever imagined possible. I found myself going through a divorce and with a diagnosis of polymyositis and quadriplegia. I received a trachea peg tube and had the knowledge that the doctors told my family I was not going to make it.
The hospital chaplain came to visit me, prayed over me, and sang Amazing Grace. Every time he visited, he did the same thing. He told me to remember that God always takes care of His children. Lying in the ICU, I repeated over and over in my head: “By your stripes, I am healed, Jesus.” I almost died three separate times during that 8-week hospital stay. I held on to the belief that Jesus loves me. I sang that song over and over in my head. It was the only comfort during that time in my life.
My Spiritual Dream
I’ve always been the type of person that everyone turns to for guidance. I want to be a beacon of light to help others find the path to Christ Jesus. My sister encouraged me to seek out ministry training and become ordained since she is a minister as well. At first, I felt myself mentally running from God, saying, “Me? A part of the ministry?…no, no, no.” To hear God’s reply, “Yes, yes, yes.” I sought advice from my mother because she is the one person that understands why I feel or think the way I do.
I prayed and asked God if He had the right girl because I didn’t believe that I could be a minister. I knew I wanted to help bring people to Christ but didn’t think I fit the mold of what a minister is. Even though I regularly read the Bible, I did not believe I had such a grasp of it that I could confidently explain the gospel to others. The last thing that I wanted was to reveal Jesus to non-believers in such a way that it made them choose to stay away from Him.
Online Free Ministry Training at CLI
So here I am at Christian Leaders Institute with an open heart and an open mind ready to absorb everything that you can teach me. I hope to complete as many studies as possible. Since the significant life changes of divorce and polymyositis, I’m unable to work and considered medically retired. I’m on disability, so the money I receive from the government is used to pay the bills and take care of me.
Therefore, at this time in my life, I cannot afford tuition. That’s why I’m so thankful that CLI offers ministry training for free. The idea that I can heed the call of my Lord and Savior and not be hindered by a lack of ministry education means so much to me. With CLI’s training, I will finally be able to help others find Jesus. I will no longer lack confidence in myself for not being adequately trained in the gospel. I feel very blessed to have found a ministry training school that is willing to teach me. Thank you, CLI!
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