My Pastor Heart From God
Hello, my name is George DeWitt and I have a Pastor heart for the lost. I live in the United States. I am a Pastor in the mountains of North Carolina. I love serving the Lord.
I was saved in 1992, in a small church in the mountains. I was not expecting that I was in need of a Savior as is everyone. Since that time I have grown more and more in the Lord. God put a calling on my heart that is so amazing that words could not describe. He has blessed me with a heart of a Pastor, to preach His word, see souls get saved, families reconciled and broken lives mended. I am so thankful I went to the Potter’s house many years ago, for He saw a broken vessel and put the pieces together.
I grew up in a foster home. My schooling was not very good and I didn’t care about that much but after my childhood and my wild times as a teenager and young man, the Lord came by my way. I heard the gospel story, how a man name Jesus loved me enough to go to a cross and die for me. The Holy Spirit started a work in me that day and He is still working on me. Amen and Amen. So anyway, I was looking for some high-quality education online to help me in my studies because studying and serving God just gets better and better and I found Christian Leaders Institute. I want to say thank you CLI for this opportunity for and chance to learn more and more. God bless you and this ministry and may it reach more than it has already.
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“I am fascinated with the curriculum CLI provides. With each class, I find myself more immersed in my Chaplain calling.”
My Journey – My Chaplain Calling
My name is Arlene I. Salcedo, and I have a Chaplain calling on my life. I am married to Asdrúbal Salcedo, and we live in Valrico, Florida.
Early Life and Conversion
I am the eldest of three children, all females. I was born in 1968 in Puerto Rico. From an early age, my parents, who were college professors, stressed to me the importance of living a life of faith and prayer, reading the Bible, and having a personal relationship with Jesus as my personal Savior. At the age of eleven, I gave my heart to Christ and was baptized.
Calling to Ministry
At sixteen I received a calling for ministry, but being immature I postponed it, although I continued to live a life around the three principles my parents instilled in me. I graduated with a B.A. in Business Administration from the Inter American University of Puerto Rico, the Christian institution my parents worked for. Later on, I pursued a Juris Doctor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico.
In 2010, I fully surrendered my life and will to our Lord. This same year God told me that I had to move to Florida. After prayer and confirmation from my pastor, I sold what I could, gave away the rest to charity and relocated.
My faith was tested on multiple occasions as I went through divorces, infertility, unemployment, and sickness.
Ministry Training
From 2011 through 2015, I studied Theology online through Seminario Reina Valera (I confess I have yet to request my diploma.) From 2011 on I have dedicated most of my spare time to reading the Bible and enriching my spiritual life.
My renewed calling to ministry and CLI
Throughout my life, I enjoyed taking care of the ill in the family. I also enjoyed assisting friends during their convalescing. In 2018, our mighty God called me to be a Chaplain minister to the sick. After much prayer and confirmation from my pastors, I started to research about online training to fulfill my calling and God blessed me with finding Christian Leaders Institute.
I am fascinated with the curriculum CLI provides. With each class, I find myself more immersed in my calling. The course Ministry 101 is so interesting and comprehensive! The professors are very knowledgeable and the resources presented are vital for any practicing Minister or Minister to be.
My husband and I are members of New Testament Church of Brandon, where my calling has been welcomed and supported. My pastors are two of my mentors and they have given me opportunities to learn and serve.
CLI has been instrumental in my development as a Christian leader. The scholarship CLI granted me is the only way in which I could have pursued my dream of formally educating for a ministry. Being disabled and unemployed, I could not have afforded the education by traditional means. Thank you, CLI!!
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Christian Leaders Journey
My name is Harvey Fry. I grew up in central Pennsylvania in the USA in a church attending family. After high school, I joined the Marines. Upon my return, I worked as a forklift driver at a warehouse. One of my coworkers had a strong relationship with Christ and witnessed to me. In 1979, his words and God finally got through and I became a born-again Christian. I started attending a local church on my Christian leaders journey. This is where I met my wife of 30 years, Patti, and we have three children.
In February 1994 during a Sunday evening church service, I responded to an altar time and God spoke to my heart calling me into ministry. In 1997, I took early retirement from the warehouse to pursue my ministry calling of being a pastor on my Christian leaders journey. In September 2002, I was elected Pastor of my first (and thus far) only church. In the summer of 2008, I felt God had other plans for me and my family so, after five and a half years of ministry, I resigned my pastoral position. Though guest speaking at other churches, I haven’t accepted any full-time pastorships for 8 years and thought that some new learning and further education would be the next step before returning to the ministry of my calling.
Starting in 1984, I have participated in numerous missions trips to various countries outside of the United States as well as several youth work camps around the United States. Over the years on my Christian leaders journey, I have found myself back in warehouses working to provide for my family, which is where I am at the present time. The calling on my heart for full-time ministry in a pastoral setting is still the core of my desires, and hopefully, the Christian Leaders Institute Basics Certificate will assist that dream. The ease of working and learning online when there are no nearby Christian college campuses really supported my decision in choosing Christian Leaders Institute.
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