Ministry Training Courses
Hi, my name is Donald Ormiston and I am taking ministry training courses free at Christian Leaders Institute. I was born in Scotland and emigrated to Australia as a child. I live in Melbourne, Australia and work as a Paramedic. I am married to Julijana. I have four children and am blessed with three grandchildren.
My walk with Christ was more like a yo-yo ride than an upward gradient. I was raised in a good strong Christian family. But my false understanding of tradition had me serving in the military to prove I am a man and so I could see combat. I was constantly fighting in public to prove how tough I was. All of this took me away from Christ. In fact, for many years, I turned my back on Christ until I volunteered as a paramedic in East Timor. While I was working there, I had a feeling of worth and love.
I changed because I felt the love of the Lord. I returned to Australia and faced several challenges including divorce, but I did not falter. Despite the emotional pain, I knew the Lord would not give me challenges that I could not deal with. Over the last ten years, I have felt a calling to the ministry from the Lord. I have tried to ignore it several times, but it keeps returning. So now I know this is the direction of my life. I want to walk every day with Christ faithfully.
When I found Christian Leaders Institute, I knew this was an opportunity from God to follow the call to the ministry. I am thankful that God led me to Christian Leaders Institute for ministry training courses and more credibility as a leader. I am eager to see where God leads me through this training.
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As Amber-Leah shares her testimony, we see she is not going to let a disability, life’s traumas and terrible experiences stop her from realizing her ministry call education dream.
Ministry Call Education
My name is Amber-Leah Margaret Timmons, and I am receiving my ministry call education at CLI. I am from Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Being a Christian leader in my hometown is fascinating. I’m continually learning as I go. I have encountered many people with unique stories and testimonies of their own.
Childhood for me was complicated. I had three separate lives. I had my home life with my family which was very tragically unhealthy to the point where I needed to escape and take one of my sisters into foster care for a couple of years. Then there was my school life where I felt important, intelligent, and I felt like a born leader. Then there was my church life where I felt like an outcast and invisible to other church members. The exceptions were a select few elders who mentored me along the way and offered words of encouragement and weekly prayer. I completed 18 years of Baptist Sunday school education with enough optimism to light the moon in the night sky. While in the study for all those years, I began what would be a lifelong journey to have a fulfilling relationship with Christ. I considered myself devout by age 17 and was baptized in the Baptist church I spent years studying in.
I came to the Lord when I was only five years old after I had been experiencing the love of Jesus in dreams. He held me in his arms and whispered words of love and compassion to me, so I opened my Bible at bedtime one evening and began praying. “God let your light shine upon me. I ask you now to come into my heart.”
My spiritual dream is to be a Pastor of a church. I love the idea of reaching out to others and bringing them to the Lord. I also want to be a Christian Inspirational Life speaker like Joyce Meyer and have a show like Ron and Anne Mainse of ‘A Better Us.’
I fear and regret to say that I have had obstacles facing my maturity as a Christian. I catch myself often complaining of almost everything, and it has caused my reputation to be somewhat negative or at least that is how I view myself. But behold, the Lord says “rejoice!!” And that I will. I will slowly integrate a change in my attitude to correct myself for the future. I want to be my best self! What has humbled me and led me to realize I need Christ in my life is that I have experienced life’s traumas and encountered many setbacks and failures.
I came to know Jesus as my Lord and Saviour in 2012. I was forcibly confined, and I was terrified. I knelt down onto my knees during that time and sobbed my heart out to God. “Please rescue me, Lord! Give me a way out!” And He did. I became free of the shackles of being confined to a basement in my hometown of Kitchener. Surviving this led me to want to experience God in all his glory and to strengthen our relationship. I felt the desire for a ministry call education.
God became all the more real to me the moment I awoke from a C-Section surgery, healthy, alive, breathing and heart beating two and a half years ago. God gave me the miracle I had been waiting for since I was 18, a child.
I want to study the Christian Leaders Institute ministry training because I FEEL CALLED by the Lord. I hope that I can inspire other women never to give up and be a survivor. I decided on free training because I currently am in debt from a local college. I’m on Ontario Disability Benefits to surviving and am only making less than $200.00 a month as a Private Security Guard. My finances are at their worst right now, but I am desperate for God and learning how to share the word with others.
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Christian Leaders Ministry Training
My name is William Miller and I am excited to receive free Christian Leaders Ministry training at Christian Leaders Institute. I was born in a Christian home. We attended a non-denominational church and I was baptized in the 4th grade. I really don’t know of a day when I accepted Christ, He was always there.
I’ve long felt a calling but it wasn’t until my wife had serious back issues that were healed in a matter of an hour and a half of prayer did I feel the need to “step it up.” Something was missing in our Christian belief systems so we spent the next 12 years looking across the country for, and studying, the signs of the believers. God then gave us roughly six months of direction which put together the scripture and research to share with others about his amazing love, healing, and the wonderful things already in us through Christ Jesus.
Years of attending Sunday School, teaching youth Sunday School, teaching married couples Bible Studies, Theology classes at Colorado Christian University while working on a BS in Mathematics, Eagle Rank Boy Scout and still BSA adult leader, coaching youth sports for decades, and many years of going to different prayer ministry training classes where we found the signs of the believers all add to the Christian leaders ministry training.
My ministry journey noticeably began when baptized in the 4th grade where I experienced the Holy Spirit in a new way. However, once we put into print the material from several years ago for sharing what God blessed us with we began giving classes at different local churches sharing the good news of who we are in Christ, what it means to live in the Spirit, His will for us, and the love of God for us.
After 30 wonderful years in aerospace, I can’t think of anything more amazing than sharing God’s living Word. Ironically, the years in aerospace gave me the insight to recognize uncertainty in our belief systems which inhibits our relationship with the Trinity (ref: Hosea 4:6 “my people perish for lack of knowledge…” traditions of men make null and void the word of God, and the word, not mixed with faith and belief made it of no effect.) We are currently looking to share what we were blessed with to anyone who has an ear to hear and wants to be transformed from glory to glory.
I’ve been married 35 years to my high school sweetheart. We got married right after I graduated college with an Electronics Technology degree. We have a 30-year-old son, 29-year-old daughter, and 21-year-old son, one daughter-in-law, and one granddaughter. I coached many years of soccer, baseball, and basketball through Junior High ages and was blessed with the challenges of being the dad of an NFL player. I am also blessed by my daughter and the other son who have amazing artist and musician skills respectively that get used for worship services and songwriting like “The Calling” by Atoned4. My daughter-in-law is an impressive Physician’s Assistant who could run a hospital and my granddaughter, is, of course, the greatest granddaughter in the world.
I also served on a Christian School Board for a Lutheran Church for several years, a National Conference of Standards Laboratories International Board of Director member for several years, and Boy Scout Committee member as both Committee Chair and Advancement Chair.
Mountain biking, cross country running (okay, so I call it running for an over 50 years old), camping, climbing 14’ers, sciences, inventions, exploring, teaching, learning, etc. are all things I enjoy. My desire is to share God’s living Word with all ages, help Christians see what they truly have inside them, and to be ordained as a Christian Minister by studying at Christian Leaders Institute.
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