From a Christian childhood, down the road to destruction and back to doing God’s will in her Christian life calling to preach the Word.
Christian Life Calling
My name is Ada Johns and I live in the United States of America. I am following my Christian life calling to do God’s will. My Christian Leaders Institute classes will equip me to be a better leader in the Women’s Ministry, in my home life, and to do God’s will in my life.
I grew up in a Christian home, and as a little girl at church, I always wanted to be a missionary and to play the organ for the church. I was about 12 when at an evening program the choir was singing and in my ear, I heard the voice of God say, “Preach My word.” I had a warm feeling and it was like I was in a daze. I did not understand what He was saying at the time for my Christian life calling.
I started my career in the military. As life went on, I married and started a family all the while still serving God by going to church. When my tour was over, I came back home to help with my elderly parents. I went down the wrong path in drugs, cigarettes, and drinking. I did not want to be married anymore. One of my probation officers said I had to attend a Christian program one night a week. This was when I recognized God working in my life and drawing me back to my Christian life calling.
I joined a church and got baptized. I was taught to have a relationship with God, read my Bible every day, and pray. I found my Christian life calling to tell people about the good news and that God loves them. I asked God to deliver me and set me free from the drugs, drinking, fornication, and cigarettes. Praise God, He took them all at one time! He cleaned my husband and I up, and we have been married 16 years now! He was pleased with us and our work in the ministry. He led me to Christian Leaders Institute and free ministry training there. My husband is now a deacon and I am a deaconess. I thank God for what He has done in our lives, I give him praise and all the glory goes to HIM!
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Police Officer Danny Keller has a spiritual dream to become fluent in the Scriptures and to use that knowledge to teach and lead others to Christ on his spiritual maturity journey.
Spiritual Maturity Journey
My name is Danny Keller and I am on a spiritual maturity journey with my Lord. I live in Sheridan, Wyoming. While I was born in New Jersey, we moved out west when I was a small child. My father got saved, went to Bible College, and then joined an organization called Village Missions. VM sends pastors to small rural communities where the local church is struggling to keep its doors open. VM supplements the Missionary Pastor’s salary with whatever the local church cannot pay. So that is how we ended up in Wyoming.
I grew up with really good parents who kept the reality of the Gospel central to our daily life. I never had that one conversion moment as I can’t remember the first time I heard the Gospel. For a short period in my life, I would fret that I didn’t have that one, dynamic, story to tell, but God gave me peace that proof of being born again is the life we live. Much like I live my physical life even though I don’t recall being physically born. Likewise, based on God’s work in my life I am more than confident, by His Grace, that I’m born again.
My spiritual dream for my spiritual maturity journey would be to become fluent in the Scriptures like Tim Keller, John Piper, or R.C. Sproul, and to use that knowledge to teach and lead. Listening to those men always inspires me.
As I am on my spiritual maturity journey, two of the biggest obstacles have been not following through on things and an apathetic spirit. I tend to be very creative and energetic; however, after the genesis stage of a project, I tend to lose interest. Additionally, I know I need to be careful not to deal with people based on calculated facts, but rather as complicated, broken, and emotional creations of God.
God has always felt “real” to me. I’ve never felt or thought Jesus was not factual or real in my life. I’ve struggled to find my place in His Kingdom at times on my spiritual maturity journey. I was a full-time Youth Pastor for about five years at an earlier stage in life but had to move away from that to better provide for my family. I was in a desert phase for several years, waiting for a fresh excitement to plug back into. I’ve been active in a new church plant in our community and it has really lit a fire in me.
I’ve been a student of the Bible for most of my life but never accomplished any formal education with it. I hope to use the training at Christian Leaders Institute to better equip me to serve my church in its formation, and to enter a pastoral role after I retire from my current job as a police officer. I’ve got kids about to go to college and could never afford to pursue a formal education without a program like CLI. I am really thrilled to find it and look forward to how God will use it in the upcoming chapters of my life.
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From the African nation of Ghana, Jonathan shares with us his testimony. “I want to reach the world with the gospel of Christ. I also want to groom more youth to identify and accomplish their purpose in Christ, especially in Ghana.”
My Story by Jonathan Abeiku Otabil of Ghana
Jonathan Abeiku Otabil is my name, born and living in Ghana. I am a teacher by profession and currently teaching at a basic school. I am married with two kids. I have been a Christian since childhood. I grew up in the children’s ministry of The Apostolic Church-Ghana from the age of nine. With great teachings and training at Sunday school, I saw the need to accept Christ as my Lord and saviour.
I currently serve my church as a Presiding Elder. I believe God is calling me to be a minister of the gospel. I want to reach the world with the gospel of Christ. I also want to groom more youth to identify and accomplish their purpose in Christ, especially in Ghana. Ghana has a great percentage of her population as Christians but I believe there is a lot to done.
I thank God for Christian Leaders Institute, you have been a blessing and a great source of inspiration to me as Christian. This class has enlightened me as a young Christian leader. I want to be equipped with much Biblical knowledge and principles to harness my ministry.
I know God has something great for me, for that I have the support of my wife. She is a great woman who is focused on God and His work.
God bless the leadership of CLI and their able partners for their love, passion and time in supporting ministers all over the world with free ministry education.
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