Woman Disciple
My name is Loretta Williams. I live in the United States and it can be challenging to do ministry here. However, the challenges here have no comparison to those in other countries. People are seeking and searching for a Savior. Often they find it in other things, people, or substances until someone shares the Love of Christ. I actually grew up in a home where both of my parents taught us about God and we attended church services regularly. My grandparents (who are pastors of their own church) kept us in church and we knew about building a relationship with the Lord. But I did not totally own being a woman disciple of Jesus Christ.
Immediately after my teenage years, I thought I’d try this life on my own terms instead of what I’d been taught (my foundation). Needless to say, my life spiraled downhill and out of control. I had kept in contact with all of my high school classmates, and it was a classmate that was a good friend of mine that continuously asked me if I wanted to attend a church service with her. She asked me so often that I finally replied: “Yes, I’ll go, but only if you stop asking me to go to church after I go one time with you.” Needless to say during that church service I gave my life back to Christ and never stopped attending church after that. My life was forever changed after that service. Things gradually shifted in the right direction, old bad habits and people who weren’t encouraging my walk with Christ began to leave me. It took my friend asking me every time we spoke if I wanted to attend a church service with her to bring me back to know the Lord and to become a woman disciple of Jesus.
My ministry dream is to go around the world speaking to women, single mothers in particular, about how to live this life with Christ and be women disciples of Jesus. I hope to cover everything from finances to parenting with God as your guide and partner.
This first class at CLI has strengthened my Bible connection and walk with God. It has given me a better understanding of the importance of really devoting myself to studying the Word of God. As I have learned in this course, it is the key element to building a closer relationship in my walk with God. This course has encouraged me to do even more research to get a better understanding of God’s Word and determine the practical application.
I identify with Small Group Leader the most. I believe that God is calling me to lead small groups of women around the world. For years I prayed to ask God to reveal to me what my calling and purpose was. And He did, it was something that I was already doing just not from a spiritual perspective. My local church supports me 100% in my ministry calling. Christian Leaders Institute is important to my ministry calling because CLI will help educate me in the areas that I do not know. CLI is stretching me to study and research what I’ve probably never considered studying before. CLI has already encouraged me to dive even deeper into God’s Word.
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Kenya Church Planter
My name is Simon Ndungu and I am called to be a Kenya church planter. I am a Kenyan and living in Mombasa, Kenya. I am married to my God-given wife Margaret, and we are blessed with three children aged between 6-14-years. Mombasa is the second largest city in Kenya located on Kenya’s Eastern Coastline bordering the Indian Ocean. It is a cosmopolitan City with a large population of Muslim Arabs, Black Kenyan Coastal tribes and Indians. Mombasa is dotted with mosques and Indian temples. With the populace held in the yoke of Islam and witchcraft, the church is making significant impact lighting up the hearts of the people with the gospel of Christ. The wind of transformation is blowing.
How I came to know the Lord:
I was reading a book titled “Power For Living” by Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, on July 17, 2009. It was a Friday afternoon. On page 46 of that book, there is an explanation of how to receive Jesus. The author says that you can receive Christ by faith through prayer. He adds that prayer is talking with God. So I read through the prayer of repentance in the book and meant it in my heart. I kept quiet about it for a month without telling my wife or anyone. But the fire within me became unbearable and finally after one month, I asked my wife to give me a Bible. Then I left the house to look for a church. The first church I entered is the same church I answered the altar-call to on that same day. I have been growing in the Lord there ever since. The membership of my church is slightly over 1,000 people and I thank God for giving me such a wonderful church family where I have served as a deacon.
My Ministry Dream:
I felt the call of God to a Kenya church planter ministry in 2012. So, I enrolled in a donor-funded diploma course in Transnational Church Leadership at Pan African Christian University. I graduated in 2017, and I have been serving the Lord in my area of gifting which is teaching God’s word and evangelism. For five years, I remained too shy to witness for Christ and I would feel inadequate whenever I had brethren share about how they led someone to Christ. I embarked on prayers asking the Lord to give me the courage to witness for Him. We serve a faithful God. Three years ago, I led three people to Christ while out on a door-to-door evangelism. That incident opened a new level of service to the Lord for me. Ever since I carry the burden for the lost in my heart and usually I forget the world around me when it comes to personal evangelism. My dream is to evangelize wherever the Lord leads me, even to the uttermost parts of the world.
Benefits from Christian Leaders Institute:
I desired more training and knowledge in ministry. So I searched and found CLI online. This first class at Christian Leaders Institute has greatly strengthened my Bible connection walk with God. I have experienced among many things the dark side of leadership. As I was going through it, the word of God came alive in me more. Romans 8:6 and Galatians 5:25 came alive within me and my soul has really prospered in God’s word.
The word I most identify with for ministry is Kenya Church Planter. This is because church planting is the focus of my ministry vision. In my local church, I have served as a small group leader, a lay pastor, and an evangelist. Whenever church planting is mentioned, it pricks a certain part in me and reminds me of my ministry vision.
The key experience in life that prompted me to pursue a Kenya church planter ministry is when I led three men to Christ at one go. It placed a burden for the lost in me. Ever since I seize every opportunity the Lord presents me to witness and lead someone to the Lord. The most joyous moment in my life is to see souls come to Christ. Given that we have been commanded to make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:19-20), our ministry work is clearly cut out. But I bless the Lord for the weapons of our warfare that are mighty through God for pulling down strongholds like witchcraft and false religions (2 Corinthians 10:4).
My local church has supported me in my Kenya church planter ministry calling by creating a stage for me to grow and gain experience. It began with my bishop’s wife walking up to me and telling me that she can see a teacher of God’s word in me. She went ahead to assign me a role to teach the 101 discipleship class, and she sat in the class for one session to assess me. Then later my bishop assigned me the role of a lay pastor and instructed me to occasionally go visiting either of our two mission branch churches to preach. This is where I have been growing my ministry skills.
My wife and my children are supportive of my Kenya church planter ministry calling. I usually go out with them to preach in our mission churches. My 14-year old son has tapped into my ministry and one day he told me that he was evangelizing a Muslim classmate. He wanted me to support him in prayer as he planned to lead the classmate to Christ the following day. We held hands and prayed, and the following day he led his classmate to Christ. Praise the Lord!
A scholarship at CLI is the best thing that the Lord prepared for me after salvation. I thank God every day for leading me by His Spirit to CLI when I was blindly searching the web for free ministry training. In His foreknowledge, the Lord put the idea of starting free ministry training in the heart of our President, Prof. Rev. Henry Reyenga Jr. May the Lord richly bless you, Mr. President, and the entire CLI family.
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“My dream is to start a mentorship tree for empowering women in Christ that will continue to grow yearly till we reach more women in Malawi and on the continent.”
Empowering Women
My name is Milandu Mwale and I am empowering women in Christ in Malawi. I am living in Malawi in the capital city Lilongwe. I have 12 siblings. I am married with three daughters. I gave my life to Jesus when I was 13 years old at a Christian student gathering in high school. Malawi has a high illiteracy rate, highest amongst women, and many women who don’t have income. However, the role of women in the Malawian family cannot be underestimated and saved and empowered women have the potential for reaching out for Jesus in the wider community.
When I was young and a first-generation believer in my family, I hungered for some mentorship and guidance. The more I craved this the more the Lord continued to impress upon me my call in this area. When I was in college studying to be a science teacher, the Lord continued to strengthen me and showed me the gaps that existed in the body of Christ in disciple-making. Ten years later, the Lord gave me the words from Titus 2 on mentorship cementing my call. In 2015, I started a ministry (online) called “Titus 2 Ministry” which is empowering women in Christ.
As the founder of the ministry, I felt the Lord leading me to invest in learning the how-to of ministry and the teaching of God’s word. My dream for ministry is to establish a mentorship academy. It would be a school that would provide mentorship to women, women’s ministries, women in business, women in the corporate world, on standing for Jesus and living a Godly life. My dream is to start a mentorship tree empowering women in Christ that will continue to grow yearly till we reach more women in Malawi and on the continent.
As a teacher, this was a no-brainer. If we demand a high school diploma to teach ABC’s to our children; how much more do we need to teach the treasures of God’s truth. In searching for a school that allowed flexibility in learning, God led me to Christian Leaders Institute. This is a treasure I hold so dear. A gift from God. This class has brought alive many teachings I have heard from sermons and have read in the scripture. It has strengthened my walk with Jesus a lot. It has helped me reflect on my personal walk with him.
I most identify with the word Pastor. I often find myself working with people that need help with their fresh or renewed walk with Jesus. As an ordained Elder at my church, some of the things I have supported my church with have been development of Sunday school curriculum, membership class curriculum and I have taught a number of these classes. But as the Lord deeply called me to mentorship, I found myself mobilizing women in my church to start a small group that mentored girls, we called it “DOVE” – “daughters of virtue and excellence.” A program that offers mentorship to women. In recent years, I have worked with “Sister-international Ministry” in training women mentors. My pastor is very supportive of this ministry and continues to encourage me on this spiritual journey to equip myself to serve!
This scholarship is very important to me, as it opens doors of opportunities and most of all it equips me for ministry. It is timely and God sent to prepare me to serve in my calling of empowering women in Christ. I pray that this training gives me the necessary tools to reach out to the lost people in my home country and help women to grow into people that would be able to mentor others.
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