Ministry Bible Training
My name is Michael Dwayne Dowdy and I am receiving ministry Bible training at Christian Leaders Insitute. I was born in Bitburg, West Germany on August 11, 1958. My father is USA Air Force Tech Sgt John D. Dowdy, an Air Force Chef who served in the Air Force for over 27 years and served honorably and with distinguished military service during the WWII and Korean wars. My mother was a lifelong, high ranking civil servant working for the US federal government on various military installations.
I am the middle child of three and the youngest son with an older brother and younger sister. We lived near and attended public schools near military bases all over the USA. I was taught to love God, country, and family. I was taught the value of hard work, good family values, good morals, and ethics that I hold dear to my heart to this day.
At the age of 16, I accepted Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior at the small South Baptist Church I attended as both a child and a teenager in Harker Heights, Texas. At the age of 18, I heard the calling from God to help people that are sick and dying, so I became a nurse at the age of 21. I worked various positions and fields in health care as a professional nurse for over 20 years. Then after that, as my health began to decline with a diagnosis of lupus, I asked God to help me pursue another occupation that I could handle with my disability. I also wanted to continue to honor God by helping others. So, I returned to college and became a certified teacher for 12 years. During this time in my life, I also felt a strong calling from God to enter into the ministry as an ordained minister so I became an ordained licensed minister in 1990.
I am thankful to be able to study at Christian Leaders Institute in my pursuit of further ministry Bible training.
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Ireland Revival Training
Hi. My name is Rachel Walsh. I am boldly seeking God’s calling with Ireland revival training at Christian Leaders Institute. I live in Ireland although I am originally from the UK. I live in a rural community with my husband and five children. We prayed about our ministry for eight years before moving to Ireland in 2016. We have faced many challenges in that time, but we have always known God’s hand in our circumstances and we have also seen his provision many times despite our circumstances. It has been during these times that we have been closest to God and I feel blessed to have had opportunities for refinement.
I pray that this refinement has prepared us for fulfilling our calling in Ireland. We pray for revival in this nation. Many of the wonderful people here are lost to ritual and culture. But there is a healthy interest in God and people ask us what we believe because they can see we are different. We are salt and light.
We came to plant Living Waters Revival Church and we would like to build believers with solid Biblical teaching and a love for the individual. We want to heal those who have been hurt by the church and we want to reach those who are searching but are looking in the wrong places; spiritualism, suicide, addiction, superstition to name a few. There are other small congregations/house churches and their ministers who are supportive of our work and we want to work alongside them in supporting their ministries as well.
Gaining a scholarship with Christian Leaders Institute would fulfill my dream of studying at a Bible College level school without requiring me to sacrifice my role in our ministry or my role in my family. It will allow me to gain confidence in my studies as well as the recognition which others seek for validation. I have already enjoyed the Getting Started classes and have gained some helpful insight into areas I could improve as well as ways in which that can be achieved. I can’t wait to see where the next classes take me. Thank you.
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