Mission Ministry Call
I am Laila Kumar and I have a mission ministry call from God. I am from the Philippines but now reside here in India because my husband is here. I know God has a plan for me to share His word with everyone. I came to know Christ at a young age in the month of December at our Sunday school. It was there that God showed me the Way. I’m so thankful because I am chosen to be His child.
My ministry dream is to open a mission church here in Jammu Kashmir, India. By God’s grace, I hope to lead people to know Christ as their Lord and Savior and to live their life for His glory.
This first class at CLI strengthened and renewed my walk with God by opening my eyes and showing who I am and why I am here in His word. It has taught me things to consider in my daily walk with Him. It helps me know my God and Creator, to walk closer to Him, to trust Him, to lean on Him. I am to be a light for Him wherever I go on my mission ministry call.
I identify most with being a Pastor and Evangelist because it has a big influence on me as I am a servant of God. God uses them to be an eye opener, to see the need for Him. This is my purpose and why I am here and what my mission ministry call is as a child of God.
The key experience in my life that prompted me to pursue ministry is the grace and the goodness of God in my life. He forgave me and gave me peace and hope in my darkest days that no one can snatch away from me. Now I can share with others that God is always there and will never leave them. He is the only one who can give eternal life. I want others to experience Christ in their life and live for Him too.
The unique challenges in my geographic area are that the people don’t know the truth and they are slaves to old traditions and religions that lead them astray. I want them to be set free from this by knowing Christ as their Lord and Savior. My local church “Patotoo Online Ministry” with my pastor and mentor Pastor Irwin Noriega is on 24 hours and he is always teaching us and mentoring us. We’re blessed to have a pastor like Him, fully dedicated to serving God as well as His family. He is the one who encouraged me to take classes at Christian Leaders Institute where he also studies. He is the one who fired me up to study at CLI to learn more. He is always mentioning CLI and serving in God’s kingdom in his preaching. Deep in my heart and my mind, someone was telling me, “it’s you”, and I know it is the Holy Spirit.
I am thankful to God. I know God has a plan why I am here at CLI and why I came to know and learn at this institute. CLI is important to my ministry dream because it is an eye-opener to me to see what I need to consider to change in me and grow in Christ. Things need to be strengthened, especially to being a responsible believer in Christ in my daily living in dealing in every situation with my family, myself, my neighbors, my community, and so on. Mostly I need to seek God and know Him more and more. I seek to trust and to follow what He wants me to be. I am not to lean on my own understanding but to lean on Him.
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CLI Illuminates Light
I am Christopher Stanford Gonolinje, a Malawian national living in South Africa. I joined the CLI course in the month of August 2018 and I see that CLI illuminates light in Christian Leaders around the world. Prior to studying at CLI, I lived a normal Christian life committed to prayer, church attendance and serving in positions as a local leader in my denomination. However, I could feel that I needed more in the path of Christian leadership. I started searching the internet to find training within my economic reach.
My Google search landed on the Christian Leaders Institute website. Upon reading through it, I felt that God was answering my prayers of accomplishing the Christian leaders training with little monetary expense on my end. This is an answer to my prayer because I strongly desire such training but my financial resources are not permitting me to meet the costs in the traditional colleges. I find that CLI resonates with my economic need.
I quickly registered and downloaded the “Getting Started Class” lectures in PowerPoint format. I choose this format because of my internet connection. I studied each and every course unit with passion and the hunger to discover more. Thereafter, I completed the quizzes and scored above average in all of the first five quizzes. I also started sharing the course content with my friends. Some of them are pastors and church leaders. I did this in our daily conversation, paraphrasing and posting in social networks such as Facebook.
I discovered that CLI materials can transform and equip a person with the light of leadership. People around me started addressing me with greater respect, even my senior pastors and leaders started coming to consult with me when a leadership challenge arose on their end. Some even asked me to help them prepare the leadership teachings and presentations for in-house training. In this, I did not struggle, as I reread the course content of CLI and paraphrased materials with reference to CLI, then let them use it. After the use, all appreciated and dignified the material.
It is for these reasons I have come to the conclusion that the CLI materials and course programs are indeed illuminating the light of leadership to the individuals who study them. I look forward to learning more and attaining the extraordinary insights into being a strong Christian leader to work in God’s kingdom as I proclaim salvation in Jesus Christ. I thank you, Henry Reyenga and all the staff at CLI.
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Read this inspiring Canadian ministry dream of a student who hopes to share her testimony in a speaking and writing ministry to reach out to men and women within the Kingdom of God who are survivors of abuse and trauma.
Canadian Ministry Dream
My name is Earla Pollard. God’s blessings on your life, my brothers/sisters in Christ. I am excited to be a Christian Leaders Institute student with you! I was born, raised and continue to be privileged to say I am a Canadian. It seems an appropriate moment to give a prayer of thanks and acknowledge the freedom of religion and speech I have here in Canada.
In my geographic area, there are many Godly resources available to access the path to ministry. My local church has an abundance of loving, God-serving mentors, a variety of ministry opportunities for me to serve my church family and practice what I learn at Christian Leaders Institute. There is also a Christian family camp ministry with strong, God-fearing leaders that I can attend each summer and I am hoping to be a volunteer there. This would be a fascinating and unique forum for my Heavenly Father to mold my spiritual gifts to His Glory, and I am excited by the quality of mentorship I could receive! I am very blessed and humbled to have access to such wonderful resources.
My Canadian ministry dream – who am I to have such a dream? I relate to God calling the least, using the weak and broken. That’s me! Like Gideon, I needed reassurance that God was really calling me. That He would be there to fulfill what only He would have to do if He was going to use me. This past year, the Lord has just heaped on the answer – yes He is, and yes He will. I could no longer deny it or run away in fear. As I decided to stand up and obey, He has replaced the fear in my heart with that undeniable passion to answer the call that Henry Reyenga talks about at the beginning of the Ministry 101 and Getting Started classes.
So – deep breath – my Canadian ministry dream is one of sharing my testimony in a speaking and writing ministry. I would love to reach out to men and women within the Kingdom of God who are survivors of abuse and trauma and proclaim how. In the last 19 years of my adult life, my Heavenly Father has been healing and restoring me from the ravages of family dysfunction, abuse, and trauma – and He can do it for them too.
My family of origin has survived at least three generations of severe emotional, mental and spiritual abuse and trauma. As I left my family at 18 years of age to start a new life in a new city, I was witnessed to by a legalistic, cult-like organization and went on to experience another 12 years of spiritual, mental and emotional abuse. I had two children during these years. Every aspect of my life was controlled by this organization.
For such a time as this, God made Himself known to me and protected my life throughout my childhood and early adult years. Then, praise the Lord, when I was 30 years of age, the gentle Lamb of God tenderly reached down into the oppressed pit of my life and took my deeply shattered, fear-filled soul, all the brokenness and loss. He tucked me under His wings and graciously and mercifully helped me escape the pit. He has been nursing me back to health and full restoration. The fierce Lion of Judah has been my shield, my victor, and stands before me and behind me and on both sides of me as He gives me the right to claim victory for me and my children in the face of the evil and sin from Satan. Not only will I survive, but I will thrive to the Glory of God.
God has graciously and mercifully picked me up out of my early childhood and adulthood abuse trap. Thanks be to for God rescuing me when He did. My children, who are the fourth generation, have experienced a little less damage, but need His love and healing to restore their hearts so it ends with them. My heart will sing one day to see my grandchildren know only God’s love. And who knows, maybe God will bring restoration to family members, such as my mother, brothers, nieces, and nephews – someone other than just me! Wouldn’t that be awesome? I am not close with them but would love to be if we could have an emotionally healthy family. I pray for an opportunity to make amends. I have hurt their hearts with words spoken while I was ill spiritually and mentally.
A further challenge added to my life has been my health. I was diagnosed with Severe Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is very rarely triggered anymore, praise God. My “thorn in the flesh” is that I live each day with multiple physical disabilities. I continue to pray that God would once again show his extravagant character and heal me, but in the meantime I see Him provide strength when I need it. The difficult days persistently offer me the opportunity to learn acceptance and patience, which I struggle with. I have had sporadic employment as a result of my poor health. Somehow, God always comes through with the financial provision as needed, even when I allow fear to rule and forget to trust Him yet again. It really is remarkable.
This brings me to the Christian Leaders Institute’s debt-free education! What a blessing it is to my life and for my Canadian ministry dream. Thank you to those who give to and support this ministry with generous hearts. I believe for the day when I can give back to another person like me to further the Kingdom of God!
From the time I was a young girl, my heart’s desire was always to know God’s Word, and that has never changed, whatever situation I have been in. I learned a lot of subtly twisted interpretation of scripture during my years in the cult-like organization. I have been blessed with many instances of right doctrine preached with right hearts since God brought me out. I am grateful beyond measure. I wanted an opportunity to ensure I was well-grounded in sound doctrine and have the proper skills to serve, witness and teach through Bible college training. I couldn’t imagine how I would accomplish such a feat financially or physically to reach my Canadian ministry dream. Of course, God provided – He led me to CLI. Debt-free and online! Amazing!
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