Bible Education Opportunity
My name is Jennie Ball and I am following a Bible education opportunity at CLI. I live in the USA. My story is nothing radical or earth-shaking, it is just simply from my heart. I was born an identical twin and we were raised by our grandmother until she passed away when we were 14 years old. We always had a knowledge of God because our grandmother sent us to church often. After her passing, we lived with our birth dad. Although our family was not Christian, my sister and I continued on with church. We were baptized at the age of 14 just before our grandmother passed away at Easter time. Life wasn’t all that difficult but it could have been a whole lot better, but we got through it and eventually, my sister went to the military and married and lives happily ever after.
I, on the other hand, got married but not to such a great guy. He was abusive emotionally and physically at times. But, we had two awesome kids and while they were still young we moved out of my husband’s house. He remained in our lives for what I thought was best for my children, whether it was or not is still debatable. He was older and eventually passed away. I was almost 48 at the time, and after such a horrible marriage of almost 28 years, I had no intention of remarrying. Then when my sister moved back near me, we started to go back to church and were saved and baptized. We now live as Christians. I am taking these classes at Christian Leaders Institute to be a better person and to help my walk with God. I pray often for these classes and although I have no known actual plans, I know God does.
Since my first husband had passed and I had no plans to remarry, God had other plans and I remarried to an awesome husband. We do prison ministry together and we are also taking these classes at CLI together although he is much further ahead and much more knowledgeable than I am. We do have a dream of starting our own church someday, so we shall see if that is God’s plan as well. I am very shy when it comes to speaking in front of others so that in itself will be a challenge for God. I do hope by going through these classes I will be a better witness to my children and others as well.
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Ministry Testimony
Hey! I’m Justin and this is my ministry testimony. A quick overview of my walk with God. When I was younger, I didn’t come from the wealthiest family. So my grandmother would “kidnap” me on the weekends, pretty much my whole childhood. She would take me to church for worship service on Friday night and then back every Sunday for mass. In my teen years, she moved to Florida and I fell away from my faith to fit into the high school crowd. After high school, I joined the military and went straight to Iraq.
When I came home from Iraq, I developed a substance-abuse problem. This brought arrests, depression and suicidal thoughts, isolating, etc. Then one day, my childhood best friend that I had lost touch with got in contact with me and suggested I go to his parent’s church. So I went and finally surrendered my life at the altar and was baptized. The change was not overnight, but slowly things began to get better. Don’t get me wrong, there are still ups and downs, but I know God is with me.
I then started getting into apologetics and helping other people overcome similar issues I went through with God. Planting seeds for my Lord in others lives! As I was growing closer to God, everything started getting worse. After every new tough and dramatic situation I’d go through, I would cling to God. Once the storm settles, a Christian encourager comes in and has the most sound advice to give clarity to my situation. Lately, the advice has been the ministry. The last hard and emotional situation I went through, after clinging to God for dear life, an elder from an old church I used to go to got in touch with me randomly. I never told him my situation to get my mind off of it, we just talked about everything else. Finally, he suggested Christian Leaders Institute! So here I am, ready to learn and grow in the Lord!
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Ministering Journey
I’m Jeremia J. Pyuza and I am on a ministering journey. I was born in Marera village in Tanzania, East Africa. I was born into a Christian family which raised me up in a Christian perspective. I’m the firstborn among seven children of which five are alive and well and two are before the hands of God. My father died in June of 2011 after being sick for just a while.
Currently, we are living with our mother. I thank God our family is still in keeping up with a spirit of being in the Lord’s presence. The whole family is saved and all of us believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. I become a serious Jesus believer when I was in secondary school. Later on, I was elected as a leader among the youth at our school. My story kept growing especially when I was elected as Deputy Secretary for the youth Christian fellowship at the regional level of which I served for one year.
My story of being in love with God has been strong on my ministering journey. My passion to help others to know Jesus as the only true way to Heaven is the major determinant of who I am today. I have chosen to live the life of ministry despite the facts that I’m a medical laboratory scientist. I completed my bachelor degree in 2015 and currently am doing my Doctor of Medicine program at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University.
I love to serve as a youth leader. Through God’s given gift, I have been able to reach many people through my radio talks, my books, etc. I am expecting to reach more as I’m receiving training at Christian Leaders Institute. I’m teaching children at my local church and this is my third year. My local church has given me the authority to lead kids toward understanding the kingdom of God and I believe a scholarship from CLI will make this dream come true. With the changes in technology, I’m able to bring quality Bible education to the little ones and that is how I found CLI a began my high-quality formal online training.
Learning at CLI has been a very great pleasure as I’m now realizing my dream of becoming a minister on my ministering journey. I know that one of the best things to explore in the world is knowing the truth about my today and my future which is all available in the Word of God. I’m expecting more to come in terms of personal growth toward knowing God, my only Savior.
My ministry goal is to reach more youth and again to reach more souls while being involved in mentoring, leadership, management, laboratory scientist, and medical doctor professional work. I believe Jesus is going to help me attain what I’m supposed to because he is so faithful.
The big challenge in my life has been the absence of any real meaning of life when I fail to consider the presence of God, and for that reason, I feel compelled to be well attached to my Creator.
This ministry education at Christian Leaders Institue free of fees is a true gift for people who are in third world countries or lack resources and who desire to be Christian ministers with high qualifications and credentials.
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