Ministry Dreams
Read about the ministry dreams of Shawn O’Donnell and his wife. After a miraculous healing, they feel God calling them to minister.
My name is Shawn O’Donnell, and my wife and I have ministry dreams of service for the Lord. My spiritual journey has had its ups and downs like many others. I grew up mainly in Southern California. But after my parents moved to Maryland, they divorced when I was 14. I struggled with drugs, and when I was 17, I moved to Colorado to restart my life and to change some things I wanted to do differently. Unfortunately, I fell into the same routines. I struggled with alcohol and searching for women to fill my void, but it could not be filled by that.
At the age of 33, I found myself back in Southern California but wanted restoration for me and my family I ran away from. I moved back and met my wife. Now we have a daughter who is three years old. In December of 2016, my wife was diagnosed with Cancer (Stage 3) and had a very strong chemotherapy regimen. Through God’s grace, He restored her and healed her of cancer. The doctors were dumbfounded. When they removed her tumor, they found no cancer in it whatsoever. The cure for us was trust.
After that, we felt God calling us to ministry. I feel called to minister to broken men, and my wife feels called to minister to abuse victims of sex trafficking. We found Christian Leaders Institute when searching for free online ministry training to respond to our ministry dreams. We are eager to see where this training will take us and to see where God leads us to serve in His kingdom. Stay tuned for what God does next!
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Free Bible School Course
My name is Harold Frydman and I am taking a free Bible School Course at Christian Leaders Institute. I live in New York, NY. From the moment of my birth, I experienced loss. My mother passed during my birth. I was then placed in an orphanage run by the Greek Orthodox Church. That is where I spent the first three years of life. In 1960, I was adopted by a Jewish American immigrant couple who were survivors of the Holocaust. I was their only child. I was raised as a Jew, but religion was of no consequence in my family, it was done strictly for appearance. There was only one religion followed in our home, the religion of silence. Nobody spoke, nobody questioned. The problem was I had many, perhaps too many, questions of my own.
Life degenerated into constant chaos. I had no anchor, nothing to hold onto. I searched for meaning everywhere except where the focus needed to be. On myself. Instead, I developed a victim mentality, blaming everything and anyone for my tale of woe. Yes, even God did not escape my wrath. Nor did I escape my own self-denial and self-hatred. The feeling of loss was all I knew, and somebody was going to pay. Little did I understand it was my own spirit being denied and my soul being destroyed.
Then I hit bottom. I was bankrupt in every way possible. Financial, mental, physical, spiritual. I literally became nothing, in thought, word, and deed. I was homeless, alone, and scared. It was my greatest curse and my greatest blessing. For reasons I cannot explain, and no longer try to explain, God held me up through it all. He saved me countless times from destruction. He set me on a course that led me to Jesus Christ through the power of His love.
And here I am at Christian Leaders Institute taking a free Bible school course. There is, of course, much more to my testimony and I’m quite sure that one day I will tell my story in its completeness. Now is not that time. Now is the time to receive the blessings I’ve received and go forth in love with purpose and meaning. I am here and I am here to stay. I am thankful that I found the Christian Leaders Institute so I can learn and grow in the knowledge of God. God Bless.
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