Free Christian Leader Training: Lord, Send Me!
Hi, I’m Christine Hurd, and I am receiving free Christian leader training at CLI. I have lived in Hobart, Indiana, for over 30 years now. At a young age, I recall my mom walking us to a Nazarene Church. Also, I remember going to different churches with my friends. In my teen years and some of my adult life, I strayed and didn’t find my way back until 2004.
It took a year for a friend to convince me to come to her Nazarene Church. I watched a recording of their service in which the music pastor had a hole in his pants. I felt if he could be up there looking like that and not worry about being judged, then I would give it a try. During my first few visits, I cried tears of belonging. I had this kind of goosebump feeling. Then I felt like I was surrounded by warmth as if a blanket covered me. After a while, most of my efforts to get there were unsuccessful.
Getting Serious About God
I got serious about my walk with God about a year before I was baptized in 2012. That’s when God got serious with me. I changed, and things around me changed. I have been the PreK Director of my church for the past three years. My spiritual dream is to have a deeper connection with God. One of my favorite verses is, “ I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” (Phillippians 4:13)
Through the Christian Leaders Institute training, I want to learn, understand, and share God’s word. I want to share my love of Christ and become a better Christian leader. My husband got a medical retirement, and I’m part-time at the church. We have children in college and public school. I wouldn’t have been able to get the professional training needed if not for receiving the free Christian Leader training and scholarship through CLI. I am so grateful for Christian Leaders Institute.
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Training at CLI for My Full-Time Ministry Call
Hi, I am Doug Cremer, and I am receiving free ministry training at CLI for my full-time ministry call. I live in Durban, South Africa. I was born on September 2, 1950, in Zimbabwe and grew up attending both Sunday School and Youth Group. During that time, I never decided to accept Christ as my Lord and Saviour.
Salvation Vision
Then at age 21, while serving in the Army, I was in a fierce firefight. While going to ground to change my weapon magazine, I suddenly experienced a vision. During this time, it was as though a giant movie screen appeared before me. I saw every instance that I attended church and that I had an opportunity to accept Christ, but did not. At the end of the vision, I heard a voice ask plainly, “How do you plead?” I responded, “Guilty!” And the vision ended.
On this day, God became real in my life. I believe that if I responded differently, God would have allowed my life to end then and there. I thank God for His grace and mercy! Not long after that, I was invited to a Sunday evening meeting at a Full Gospel Church in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. After the sermon, I had an invitation to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour and accepted. A few weeks later, I was baptized in water. Then not long after that, I was baptized with the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues as the Holy Spirit gave me utterance.
The greatest lesson I think I learned is that God knows what we need, but we must still ask Him. I always thought it was automatic, and when it didn’t happen, I couldn’t understand. Now, I see God working in many ways and places!
Full-Time Ministry Call
Over the years, the Holy Spirit has gifted me with at least two of His nine gifts, as outlined in 1 Corinthians chapter 9. Although I have sought Father God about full-time ministry, somehow, this seems to be what God wanted. However, it did not happen immediately
I labored on the mission fields of Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa in the past, assisting a Canadian missionary organization based in Durban, South Africa. Their mandate was to help orphanages and teach the Bible in these countries. Sadly, this outreach was forced to close due to the lack of financial support. This closure forced me to return to the commercial sector for employment. I continued there until 2015 when I was suddenly retrenched due to my age of 65.
For the past four years, I have been seeking Father God for further purpose and direction. I am where I am supposed to be for the moment, praise God. My spiritual dream is to be part of God’s latter-day outpouring on the Earth. I am to speak His word with boldness and authority.
Free Ministry Training at CLI to Prepare for My Full-Time Ministry Call
I thank God for Christian Leaders Institute. I regret that I was unaware of CLI’s existence until about May of this year (2019). During an internet search for a high school video lesson I was producing, I came upon a webpage that offered ‘Free Classes’ in Christian ministry. I suddenly found myself with this incredible opportunity. I can obtain a recognized qualification without the costs at CLI.
This idea was unbelievable to me. Initially, my thoughts were that this was just another ‘Certificate’ scam. However, many hours later, I can assure any reader that this is not the case. This training is the real deal. So, thank you, CLI. Besides the fact of free Christian education, I love the solid ‘foundation’ that I am getting now. Well done, CLI, this is awesome.
CLI Trained for My Full-Time Ministry Call
One of the first prophetic words I received was to look in the Bible and find the place that God had prepared for me. I traveled to many countries and worked with numerous activities in pursuit of that goal. I wish CLI had been there from the beginning. A lifetime of running around would have been averted.
In closing, I believe the training that I am getting now will set me up to complete God’s purpose and calling for my life. Nothing else matters. God bless CLI for helping to make this possible.
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Vision To Spread God’s Love
My name is Jennifer Heidinga, and I have the vision to spread God’s love. I am from Ontario in Canada. I was not brought up in the Christian faith in my home. However, I was brought to Sunday school by my mom as a child and confirmed as a Christian at nine or ten years old. Without the reinforcement of faith at home, after I stopped attending Sunday school in 7th grade, I drifted from my faith.
Search for Inner Peace
I started a search for inner peace wherever I could find it. I could not find what I was looking for in the books I read, searching for the truth. Through Christian friends in my high-school years, I came to a faith in God, not a real understanding, but simple belief. It would take years until I was in university before I came to complete faith in Christ.
At that time, I was experiencing intense spiritual warfare over my salvation. I felt so strongly that something was missing in my life. I accepted Christ at age 19 in hopes of stopping the attacks. It stopped at that moment. I have come to understand that spiritual warfare never really ends; however, it just changes form and tactics over different seasons of life.
Struggle with Depression and My Calling
Throughout my teenage years, I was melancholy without reason, both physically and in my written poetry. Once I got married and had children, however, a depression set in my life. Such a dense fog was there over my mind that I couldn’t think clearly or positively without intense mental effort. Through all of this, God was with me. He held me through the fear of warfare, the uncertainty and deep sadness of depression, and many other trials that I faced.
As I was entering into the period of depression over my life as a mom of young children, I sensed that I had a higher purpose over my life. I started writing, but never got past the first few pages. I started the “Getting Started” class at Christian Leaders Institute. But, my mindset was such that the “I can’t do it” attitude was already overwhelming me. So, I stopped the course with only two quizzes left to complete.
My Restart of Free Ministry Training at CLI
This year in 2019, with my children ages four and eight, I restarted my courses at CLI. During which time, I heard God say to me, “It’s time.” Now is the time to move forward into what He has for my life. It is time to take the dark paths He led me through and use what I learned to help others through their dark place, whatever that may be, to a spot on the other side of their view, where they thought would never see the light of day.
Vision to Spread God’s Love
Through my depression and my life, God has worked in me. He gave me an understanding of His love for me and the beauty He sees in me. God considers this beauty in all of His creation, regardless of who they are or what they have done. God gave me a heart for worship and a burden for hurting people as we all need God’s love. As I move forward towards women’s and worship ministry, wherever this path may take me, I pray that God will use me to touch others the way He has touched me.
I have the vision to spread God’s love to hurting women. My vision is for more women to be able to speak the words that my 4-year-old daughter said to me earlier this week. She said, “I am beautiful. God made me just the way I am, and He knows what I will say before I even say it. He made me beautiful.”
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