Spiritual Walk With God
“To God be the glory great things He hath done. Glory to His name.” My name is Kay Williams and this is my spiritual walk with God.
I live in Mandeville, Jamaica. I am the second of five siblings. My grandmother, mother, aunt, and cousin are the prayer warriors of the family. At an early age, I feared God and wanted to serve Him. I made many promises to God, but they were not fulfilled because of the pleasures of this world. I would visit crusades, baptismal services, and witnessed the movement of God in the congregation, but I still did not accept Him as my personal Saviour.
When I attended high school, I was a member of the Inter-School Christian Fellowship (ISCF). I was a member of the school choir and children’s choir at church. I didn’t commit my life fully to God, but I was God-fearing because I was raised in a Christian home. In 1994, I was accepted to a Business College. Little did I know that God had a plan for my life because I kept making promises to Him. In the second semester of College, I took sick and was unable to continue my studies. Jesus got a hold of me and I could not get out of His hand. Jesus was there just in time to rescue me. I was baptized and I committed my whole life to Him and started my spiritual walk with God. In 2000, I continued my studies where I got my Diploma in Secretarial Studies.
I became the member of a small church in my community and was the Secretary and Sunday School teacher. In my early years, I had a passion for teaching. In 2012, I got my Diploma in Primary Education. Through many challenges and spiritual warfare, I have decided to teach the Word of God instead. The Lord has delivered me from so many dangers. I was robbed so many times and thank God I am still alive. The harvest is ripe but the laborers are few. I want to be a laborer for God to teach his Word.
I want to give up everything for God and to teach people to read and understand the Bible. But first, I think getting a Bible education is necessary and very important. I went online in search of a free Bible school. While searching, God led me to this site and I am very thankful to Him. I read about CLI and was relieved to learn about your tuition-free courses. Getting a scholarship with Christian Leaders Institute (CLI) will help tremendously in my spiritual walk with Christ. I will be more confident and equipped to impart the Word of God with a Diploma or Degree to show that I am a trained Christian Leader in ministry.
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Pastor Training Blessings
Hello and many blessings in the Name of Jesus Christ! My name is James Johnson and I am receiving pastor training blessings as I study at Christian Leaders Institute. I live in San Angelo, Texas in the United States of America. I was born and lived my earliest childhood in a small town in east Texas. We had a neighborhood church that influenced me greatly in that I learned early about God and living in a godly manner. Sadly, the neighborhood church moved to another part of town. My family then attended a Baptist church outside the immediate neighborhood but still close by. However, this church did not have the strong impact on the neighborhood that the earlier church did. When I was between seven and eight years old, my family eventually moved out of the area but not before a noticeable decline in the neighborhood.
The location of my family’s new house was not close to any church. My mother and father divorced and attended different Baptist churches. We were required to attend a church on Sundays so my older brother found a nearby Primitive Baptist Church. They had few weekly services other than Sunday, and they started early and ended early. He and I attended this church when they had services so we would be close to home and able to be the first to the swimming pool during the summer. This church closed and then we were required to attend my mother’s Baptist church.
At the age of eleven, my family changed churches again. I attended this church from the age of ten until about the age of sixteen when I witnessed some ugly and seemingly ungodly business meetings and other behavior that made me question the church. I met a family and was invited to the Church of Christ, it was just up the street from my home. This was a much smaller and much more serious church and it was there that I was baptized and received the Holy Spirit at the age of sixteen. It was also there that I began to walk with the Lord and my life changed.
My ministry dream is to share the Word of God without denominational restraints. I believe our churches and communities grow weak for lack of the Word of God being taught. His Holy Word needs to be unleashed. One of the pastor training blessings I see is the heavy dosage of scripture in this first course at CLI. It has renewed my desire to walk with God in spreading His Word to all communities.
I mostly identify as a Pastor and Teacher. A pastor because two large churches I and my wife attended closed after internal strife. And most of the leadership and members walked away leaving large debts. My family and several others stayed and paid those debts because it was the right thing to do. While there, I was asked to lead by the remaining members. I preached and taught weekly and loved it. I also learned to love those in attendance. I was asked by the leadership about ministry before the church broke up, but I felt others were more qualified than myself. When I did purse going to a local seminary health issues interfered. I have since been able to take and complete quite a few Bible courses and classes that have increased my knowledge and abilities. These pastor training blessings are being continued here at CLI.
I believe the big challenge for my area is the teaching of God’s Word without political motivation, cultural acceptance and/or other man-made conditions. People need to hear what God says, what He expects and what He accepts. This may very well require a new church plant so I will not rule that out.
My local church has been supportive of my efforts, however many are not aware of my endeavors but they are aware of my passion for the gospel and teaching and learning. My wife of thirty-three years shares my passion for spreading the Word of God.
A study scholarship with Christian Leaders Institute would be a big pastor training blessing and it would help me become ordained to move forward with preaching God’s Word.
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Free Christian Leader Classes
My name is Gabrielle Marie Sipes and I am receiving free Christian leader classes at Christian Leaders Institute. I am from Greenfield, Missouri. It is wonderful to be a Christian leader. Being a Sunday school teacher means I have the teens and younger children that look up to me. Even living in a small town you have drugs and teen pregnancies and a lot of other stuff. I didn’t ever think that I would have younger children looking up to me but it makes me feel like their big sister if that makes sense. I want them to know that they can always come and talk to me about anything and everything, no matter what it is.
My childhood was troubled. I grew up in Iowa with my mom and whatever guy she was with. I didn’t know who my real dad was until the age of ten. Growing up, my mom stole and lied in front of me so I thought that was the right thing to do. I ended up in several programs and being sent away for awhile. I even ended up in foster care for a couple of months. When I was ten, I moved in with my dad. That situation was not any better. It was a mental and physically abusive situation. He used us kids as slaves and always had a new girl over every week. He was a person who read the Bible but didn’t follow it. I didn’t really believe in God until I got a little older.
Even though my childhood was hard, I have fixed the relationship with my mother and kind of with my father. I feel like I have faced a lot of obstacles. There was a time when I was depressed and suicidal and I cut myself. I thought God had abandoned me, but slowly I fought the depression on my own and stopped cutting. I turned to Jesus and He helped me through my family life. The abuse never stopped. The women my dad married made sure of that.
When I moved here to Missouri, I felt I might know peace with my husband Jake. I believe that God put him in my life to help me get out of a bad situation. That is when I realized I wanted to strengthen my relationship with God. I got re-baptized at the age of 19 by my own choice. I became a Sunday School teacher and that is when I really felt the presence of God. My husband has helped me through so much and so has God.
I started taking Christian Leaders Institute free Christian leader classes for a few different reasons. One, to expand my knowledge of God, and two, because I feel like this school will help me on my spiritual journey as a Christian leader. I always like learning new things and this school has a lot of things to teach. When I am in my church is when I feel the most connected with God, but I want that connection all the time and I feel that CLI will help me with that. Expanding my knowledge of God will also help when we decide to have children. I cannot wait to see what is in store for me at CLI.
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