Changed Life
My name is Christopher, and I have a changed life in Christ Jesus. I was born in Singapore, into a Buddhist family. However, I attended a Christian school (elementary to senior high) as my dad was previously in that school. My dad was a believer in Christ, but my mom and my siblings were not. They were staunch Buddhist believers.
Despite knowing many stories and verses from the Bible, I never had an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. As a matter of fact, I tended to avoid Christians after my graduation from the Christian school.
I worked for some years, and I started my own business when I turned 30. Through a dare and challenge by an army mate, which I met while I was back in military camp for my (reservist) training, I went back to church. Somehow, throughout all the Sundays sitting in the congregation of thousands of worshippers, I felt that God directed the sermons at me. It was as if God was talking to me personally every Sunday. Subsequently, nine months later, I gave up my pride and sin. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
My mom saw my changed life immediately after I became a Christian. This changed life made her curious as to what changed me. Four years later, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and given less than nine months to live. I spent time taking care of her and sharing Christ with her. She accepted Christ as her Lord and Saviour too just ten days prior to her passing on. This conversion was an incredible event as she was a firm Buddhist believer before that. To this day, I praise and thank God for all that He has done for me. With faith, trust, and hope in Him, I know that I will see my mom again someday.
And now I have this opportunity to receive free ministry training at Christian Leaders Institute. May the Lord guide me to the ministry work He has for me to do. I thank you, CLI, and may the Lord bless all of you here.
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By listening to God and then obeying Him, Brooke found CLI online and can now fulfill her calling of working in women ministry in her local community.
Women Ministry: I Found Christian Leaders Institute
My name is Brooke Brueckner, and I am called to women ministry. I’m from a small town in the United States of America, Black Canyon City, Arizona.
My husband and I have been youth leaders at Calvary of Black Canyon for nearly three years now. We teach and guide children from ages 3 to 12. Though our town is beautiful and sweet, it has its share of problems with drugs and such. So we also run and coordinate the town’s outreach program (Open Gym) at our local elementary school. Many of our children have parents that don’t come to church. So these little guys get themselves up and ready on Thursdays and Sundays to go to our bus stop to get picked up for church! It is my joy to guide them in the way of the Lord. I learn from them, just as I continuously teach them in return.
I grew up in a Christian home and went to church often. When I was a teen, my mom was dealing with mental health issues. This was very tough for me, and I decided to leave home. With this decision, I also decided to leave my walk with the Lord and go down my path for about nine years. This path was very rough and steep because I wasn’t making my decisions with or for the Lord.
One day, I felt the Lord knocking on my heart of stone and slowly started to come around. I came in full swing when we moved to Black Canyon City, and God led me to Calvary. As my relationship with the Lord became strong, my mother and I rekindled our relationship, and her mental health is getting better.
The enemy is always at work and swoops in to bring us back a few steps. That did not stop us from moving forward. Instead, I became even stronger in my walk with Him. I would encourage my mom instead of abandoning her because the Lord never abandoned me. He was always there by my side. Now my mom is taking control of her health! She often helps me with many things, including homeschooling our children. God is GOOD!
While I was making pancakes one morning and talking to God, He told me I needed to focus on women ministry! So I asked him, “How do I do this, Lord?” That’s when I got a feeling to get online, and there’s where I found Christian Leaders Institute. I’m so excited because my dream is to not only help the children of our town but to help their parents! God is preparing my husband and me to help these broken families.
Christian Leaders Institute is going to guide me down the right path to reach that goal. God is amazing and always provides. You see, I can’t afford classes from many of the other online schools. I looked into it, and it is just not in my budget. But God kept bringing me back to the CLI website. I’m forever grateful to all that made this online school possible for free — not only the people that created this program but the Vision Partners as well. I’m very excited to become a vision partner soon myself.
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.From a horrid past, Raymond has come to know God and has answered His Men Ministry call.
Men Ministry Call: My Call to Faith
My name is Raymond Mallon, and my home is in Fayetteville North Carolina, USA. Being a Christian leader here means confronting homelessness and addictions. My brothers and sisters in Christ need encouragement to help those who need help living like that.
Spiritually my childhood was as messy as my physical world. My grandmother was a praying believer who tried to get me to come to the Lord. But I was too hate-filled to listen because my stepfather had been raping me for years. I blamed that on God. I couldn’t find a way to see past my hatred.
When I was in high school, I met Brother Roy. He brought me to Forest Park Bible Church. It was there that I started my baby steps toward faith. Yet I couldn’t resolve my past with my desire for belief in God and His love. Instead of running towards God, I ran away from him. I joined the Army where my hate finally caught up with me, and I was court-martialed.
It was in the spring of 2000 that I came to realize that I had become like the very monster who abused me. I realized that I couldn’t do this alone and that I needed Jesus. My baptism was the next Sunday. As I came out of the water, I promised God to go where He pointed me, and that was with a men ministry call. My spiritual dream is to preach the importance of being the men that God has called us to be and encourage those men so that they can stand boldly against today’s attack on men.
There were stumbling blocks aplenty in my coming to this point such as overcoming my own anger, temper, and pride. I had to learn how to get out of God’s way first so that He can work on my heart, soul, and mind to be the most effective tool to fulfill this dream. I had to learn that it wasn’t me that mattered the most but Jesus and my fellow man.
The event that humbled me was getting out of prison and ending up homeless. I lived among people who have addictions to alcohol and drugs, who live under bridges, in the woods, and abandoned houses. Often society looks down on them. This quickly taught me that I can’t rely on myself. I need God to be able to stand up each day and walk in this world. I need Him to find a reason to laugh and smile so that I can encourage the next person who needs it.
My Christian Leaders Institute training will help me to encourage the men of faith in my church. I want to encourage them to be the heads of their homes, communities, and churches. Then, they can stand up for what’s right according to God’s Word not society. The free training from Christian Leaders Institute is vital to me because I am a homeless part-time worker in a fast food restaurant which means money is of limited supply for me. The ministry training is essential to me because I see no other way I can afford to do this.
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