Free Life Skills Class – Become a Stronger and Healthier You 

by Professor: Dr. David Feddes

You are part of God’s special operations. Your mission is to reclaim the world for Christ. You have been saved and called to help. This class is about helping you to become a stronger and healthier you. This free life skills class is perfect for living a more confident and healthy life!

This free life skills class gives you Biblical insights and practical knowledge that make you stronger for your mission. Each topic is applied to your spiritual, physical, financial, intellectual, emotional, relational, and vocational dimensions of life.

Dr. David Feddes will bring you through the crucial areas of total fitness for you to thrive in leading others.

You will Learn and Grow in this free life skills class 

  1. Total fitness: hear God’s call to embrace practical wisdom and discipline for strengthening the whole person.
  2. Spiritual fitness: draw near to God and stand stronger against Satan through spiritual disciplines.
  3. Physical fitness: know why the body matters to God, improve bodily health, and use body language well.
  4. Financial fitness: earn a good living, escape debt, build wealth, honor God and bless others with money.
  5. Intellectual fitness: build healthy curiosity, sharp thinking, lifelong study, and courage to stand for truth,
  6. Emotional fitness: learn to face feelings honestly and discover God working through emotions.
  7. Relational fitness: heal from past relational wrongs and wounds, and interact with others in a wise and godly manner
  8. Vocational fitness: pursue God’s calling for job, career, and other tasks.

You are welcome to take this free life skills Class supported by generous vision partners. These vision partners include blessed Christian Leaders Institute Graduates, Kingdom-minded Christians and Foundations, and others.

Begin your free life skills course now! You will begin by taking a Getting Started Orientation class. Then you are encouraged to enroll in the Christian Leaders Connection Class which helps you get situated at Christian Leaders Institute. You are also free to immediately take this Total Fitness class by Dr. David Feddes.

Other Opportunities:

More Ministry Training Classes and Programs -These Ministry training programs will fuel your calling and increase your impact. Gather digital mission credentials or order official awards. These credentials are perfect for local ministry opportunities and ordination.

Ordination – Completing free classes opens you up to an ordination opportunity that is both locally and globally recognized with the Christian Leaders Alliance. Check out how you can become an Ordained Christian Leader. Low fees apply for ordination packages.

College Degree –  Earn your College Degree – Use your Christian Leaders Institute free classes for collegiate credentials. Earn certificates, diplomas and degrees. Low administration fees apply.

Ministry Education Story

Ministry Education Story

My name is Amanda Jordan and I have a ministry education story to share. I am 23 years old and I live in a small town in Tennessee. I have a 2-year-old son and tons of animals! I feel that is necessary to say because it’s part of who I am. Before Christian Leaders Institute, I was in college for veterinary medicine. I did not graduate due to emergency situations but I feel God has something better planned for me…like CLI.

Being a Christian leader in my area, in general, is not too difficult. Of course, there is always criticism, especially when you have not always been the perfect Christian. I grew up knowing God, but my parents weren’t Christians. They decided to send me to church anyway, though. Thankfully, now they are fully devoted Christians! Praise God! I’ve always known the Lord. I can’t recall a time I didn’t. Such a thought is unfathomable really. It was later on, though, when I actually changed my life for Him.

My spiritual dream is to, first, take what I learn from CLI and become a new person in Christ. I want to be someone who practices what I preach, lives solely on the windy path of the Spirit, and says no to all temptations of this world. I want to be a better me for God. Secondly, I want to be a missionary. I want to help the poor and spread the word to those who need it. I know what it’s like to be poor and God stresses so much to help those in need. I want to make a difference in this world. I want to bring as many people to know Christ as I can!

A big event that humbled me to realize I needed a stronger relationship with Christ was my divorce. I was in an abusive marriage and my child was in extreme danger, I had to leave. Thankfully, he’s now in jail. But the Lord was and is my strength. He showed me that in Him I could and can get through it all. I called on Jesus to bring me closer to Him, and He not only did that but made me fall in love with the Word! He got me through it all safely and now blessings upon blessings have been bestowed upon me and my family! All glory to God!

Free ministry training is important to me in my ministry education story because when I first started I had just gotten laid off from my job. I’m a single mother and I really need to grow in my relationship with the Lord. I’m overjoyed that I have the opportunity to do this ministry training for free at CLI.

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Immigrant Free Ministry Training

Immigrant Free Ministry Training

My name is Mildred Eshun. I currently live in New York. My father lives in New York and my mother lives in Ghana. I migrated to the United States last year to live with my father. I am a Ghanaian. I completed Cape Coast Polytechnic in 2010 and I studied HND in Tourism in the Central Region of Ghana, West Africa.I am currently a home health aide in Long Island, New York.

I served in a local church of a small congregation of about 30 people in Ghana. Since I migrated to the United States, I am serving in a local Church here since my mother Church is only in Ghana and does not have branches outside the country. I intend to open a branch here with time as the Lord gives me the green light to start.

Growing up as a young woman, we always went to the local Pentecost church. My mom took us to church every Sunday and she made sure that no one stays home on a Sunday without going to church. I was really into the things of God from a tender age because of the gift of singing that God has blessed me with. I was always present at crusades grounds, church services and rehearsals. But all these times I had not yet accepted the Lord Jesus as my Lord and personal savior. I was just a church goer. I finally accepted the Lord as my savior when I want to high school. I will really loved that experience when I finally joined the scriptural union. I had water and Holy Ghost baptism at high school.

But everything turned around when I started Tertiary education, I joined bad friends so I started making wrong decisions, sleeping around with married men, young men and women at the same time, drinking alcohol and going to the club. My family had no idea of what I was doing because I was on campus.

I had always had an inner conviction of the call of God on my life. I had dreams to confirm the call right at a tender age. In 2011, the Holy Spirit captured my heart back to the Lord and has made the calling of God on my life so clear to me. My dream is to be a pastor, share the word, win many souls to the kingdom and see many lives blessed by my ministry. I dream to become a trained Christian leader within my community. The Lord delivered me from all my past bad behaves so I want to be used by God to save and deliver others too who are in that same situation.

My pastors ( both in Ghana, my mother church and the one here in the States) has been very instrumental in my growth, they always give me an opportunity to preach on Sundays, Fridays and anytime there is a program in or outside the church.

I had always wanted to enroll in a Bible school but I have always struggled with tuition since 2011 when I released I had the call; this has made me search for free lectures on the internet until one time the Lord revealed CLI.

My scholarship will help me build my knowledge of the gospel and also be more confident when sharing the word. It will also enable me to be recognized as a trained Christian leader through my certificates and diplomas eventually in ministry.

Please, pray for me so that my ministry dream will be fulfilled.

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Free College Courses

Free College Courses

My name is John Marlar and I am excited to receive free college courses in ministry training at Christian Leaders Institute. I am married to my beautiful wife Renee. I am 57 years old, soon to be 58. I am a follower of Jesus Christ and have a mission to expand my knowledge to serve Him better. We live in Hickory, NC, USA and attend and serve Day 3 Church in Granite Falls, NC.

I was born and raised in northern New York State. I did not go to church when I was a child. I grew up thinking that churchgoers were hypocrites as I saw them attend church on Sunday and sin all week long. I felt churches were all about the money and my parents did not discourage me from thinking that way.

The best way to describe me before Salvation is “driven by self”. I spent most of my life trying to achieve the things I wanted and to live the American Dream. The problem with that was I never was able to fill the hole in my soul. I started drinking and this led to alcoholism and recovery from that disease. I was able to stay sober on coming to know God as a singular Godhead in 1987 (no Trinity). I prayed and many of my prayers were answered, but I was still empty. After 16 years of sobriety, the disease (and my ego) took charge again. I spent another 4 years of insanity trying to get sober again. After hitting bottom in 2007, I found myself in AA again and this time I understood that I could not stay sober on self-propulsion. I came to a new level of faith and of open-mindedness. I think this was the beginning of my journey to salvation.

In the summer of 2012, my fiancé asked me if I would like to attend church with her. My answer to the question was that she would never catch me in one of “those” places. I later told her I would go to church with her, but it would only be to support her. Needless to say, we did not start attending church together and life went on.

In July of 2013, my fiancé and I were sitting in a restaurant having dinner. I told her that I thought we should check out Freedom Biker Church. That thought had a source outside of me as it would not have been in my nature to think about going to church. My fiancé thought I was kidding. But that Sunday, we went to Freedom Biker Church in Hickory for the very first time. I remember that I felt drawn there. During the first service, the Pastor did a great job of explaining the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. I had an emotional upheaval at this first service and I felt I had been “touched” by God. It was amazing and welcoming. I had to come back and see if that happened again.

On my second visit to Freedom Biker Church, I had another emotional upheaval during the service and I was convinced that I needed Jesus in my life. At the invitation at the end of the service, I went to the altar and asked Jesus to enter my life as my personal Lord and Savior. It was July 14, 2013. My life has not been the same since. My fiancé and I got married at the end of August that year.

During the weeks following my salvation, I was baptized and I started becoming involved in the church. After a short time, I felt called to do something more for the church and I talked to our Pastor about that. At first, it was unclear what I was being called to do. My wife and I attended church every week as well as Bible study on Tuesday nights. I began reading the Bible with purpose. I wanted to understand God’s Word.

Over the following year, I was given the opportunity to do many things inside the church including going on a mission trip to York, PA where Freedom Biker Church was trying to plant a church. Also, during that year, my wife and I were led to facilitate a ministry. Both my wife and I had prior experience with recovery from alcoholism, so it was natural for us to want to help others with that. About that same time, our Pastor came to us to discuss the possibility of bringing a ministry called 1stGear to Hickory. 1stGear is a ministry targeted at helping people to be healed through Christ in the areas of addiction and emotional stress. 1stGear began meeting weekly at our church on October 16, 2014. The ministry grew over the next 3 years and real healing has been experienced there. Only God made this ministry start and become effective so quickly.

In addition to 1stGear, another call was placed on my heart. In November 2014, I was given a message by God, that I needed to share. That message was “Come as You Are.” That message was strong and persistent and I sat down with our Pastor in November and let him know what I was feeling led to do. Our Pastor was going to be out of town on the 30th of November, so he gave me the opportunity to give the message to the church that day. That was a wonderful and exhilarating moment for me. Since then, I have felt the call to do more of the same.

At the same time, I was led to get more education in the area of Christian Ministry. As I did not know about the free college courses at CLI yet, I enrolled at Fruitland Baptist Bible College, attending classes online since March of 2015. In November of 2015, I was ordained as a pastor at our church. I preached regularly as a lay pastor and supported the church in every way I could.

In February of 2017, a detour was placed in my life with the untimely death of my mentor and pastor. God knew that I needed to change locations to become more effective. So, my wife and I were led to seek another church where we could serve. We are now at Day 3 Church in Granite Falls, NC and we are serving in Celebrate Recovery as small group leaders. I get the occasional opportunity to preach. We also lead a life group in our home on Wednesday nights. We are trying to build other leaders through that. We attend our church and worship just as we are. We want to provide that environment for more people. We believe our future is to lead a church in God’s timing as we take free college courses at CLI.

I am a new creation in Christ. My wife and I are followers of Christ. Wherever He leads, we will go. We are not concerned about finances today and we do what we think is best for fellow believers and for the expansion of the Kingdom. Today, although I make mistakes, I am trying to live a life that honors God and makes me more like his son. My wife is doing the same. Together as a team, we honor Him. Christian Leaders Institute’s free college courses have been a real blessing to us as we seek to learn more about God, the Word, and ministry. Thank you, CLI, for your free college courses!

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