Worldwide Ministry Dream
I’m Ochelle Baller and I have a worldwide ministry dream for the Lord. I was born in the capital of the Philippines, Manila, and grew up in a small city, Dipolog. My grandmother took care of me as my mother was a bit lost at the time she had me. My father was out of the picture and that’s the reason why I grew up thirsty for a father’s love. My mother passed away when I was twelve, leaving five children, me and my half-sisters. The youngest was adopted by the brother of my stepfather. LL, the middle child had to live with my aunt in Manila and the rest of my sisters lived together with my grandmother and me.
I had traveled from island to island for work. I’ve worked in different industries from customer service, government, hospitality, sales, travel, and education. In 2010, I migrated to Canada to be with my husband. We are a blended family of three children, two boys (from my husband) and a girl (my daughter). My career in this new country evolved from retail to real estate. I currently work as a Leasing and Marketing Coordinator in a real estate company.
My thirst for my father’s love was replaced with the thirst for the love of my great Father, God. My search for the Living Water started when I met my husband. He was raised in a Christian family and he had encouraged me to get up from the pit of darkness. Before we got married, I got baptized. I started attending a Christian church in the Philippines and joined my husband’s congregation, Westway Christian Church in Etobicoke upon arriving here in Canada. My husband and I were serving actively in our first church home. I worked as an office administrator at our church, taught Sunday School, became the Service Director and organized Christmas pageants and events. My husband became the chair of the board and we continued to serve our church until we moved to a different city. We are currently attending Alive Church – Newmarket (previously named Newmarket Community Church). My husband and I are teaching in Sunday School as well as teaching our two boys. I introduced service directing to the church and I serve as one the service directors. For a year, we were also part of the Marketing & Outreach Team. Yesterday, I got a message from one of the deacons at our Church. They have invited me to join the Women’s leadership team.
Last year, our women’s group had a Bible study, Experiencing God by Henry and Richard Blackaby, and I have been pursuing a daily love relationship with God. This year, the Holy Spirit has been speaking to me that I am to thrive. I attended our annual Divine Women’s Conference in June and my prophetic word was “My desire for you My Daughter is for you to thrive. In Me, you will see many great exploits of my healing and my restoring power. Not just for yourself but for all those you bring before Me. Trust Me I will not fail you” Philippians 4:13.
Both my husband and I have a heart for missions as part of our worldwide ministry dream. We have already started helping two local schools (a school for children with disabilities and a school for children with special abilities) in the Philippines by running book drives and providing some teaching materials and sponsoring students for medical appointments and surgery. Stumbling upon Christian Leaders Institute’s website was truly God given as I believe that having this ministry training will equip me for the work that God has set before me.
Obtaining a scholarship at Christian Leaders Institute will help me and my husband realize our worldwide ministry dream. It will help us in realizing and growing the ministry of reaching out to the students, their families, and teachers. It will also equip us in sharing the Good News and sharing the love of God through the provision of medical needs, learning and teaching aids. Also, we have a ministry in our workplace. My husband has been sharing the Word of God to his boss, and after three years, he has finally accepted Christ into his life. This year, God has given me the opportunity to give a Bible to our president and to pray for my previous manager. Currently, I have been praying to see if God wants me to join Him with His works at Ghana Rural Integrated Development, a Christian based non-profit organization, as Partner Development Lead. I believe that God has called us to take part in His work where He has placed us and to make use of the talents and abilities that He has given us.
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Online Chaplaincy
My name is Stephan Fleming and I have online chaplaincy ministry aspirations. I am Irish but living in Yorkshire in the UK at the moment. My parents came here when I was a young boy aged eleven as my father had just left the British army and at that time politically it was not possible to return to Ireland (The Good Friday agreement has now made it possible to reunite with my family).
I attend our local church. It only has a small congregation but it is growing all the time. The church is called Mosaic and is a joint Methodist and Pioneer project in a poor area of our town.
In my life, I have never really fit in or felt welcome in this country due to the prejudice against the Irish. I remember the signs in the guest house windows proudly saying ‘No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish’ (Well it was the 1970s). As a child, I had to make a conscious effort to develop a local accent and be invisible to avert the bullying (from adults, not other children as they hadn’t learned to be prejudiced yet). The signs are gone now but every now and then the nice mask people wear does slip (it is amusing watching them try to justify their comments when they find out I am Irish).
Things do usually turn out right in the end, even after they sometimes start out by seemingly going horribly wrong.
No matter how dark things get I always find that prayer helps and I have learned to overcome much and even reached the stage where I can start planning for the future.
I recently decided to buy a house. I found one online in the area I was looking for. It was a good price because the house was in need of some work. I went for it, provided the agent with proof of funding and paid my deposit and secured the services of a lawyer to look after my interests in the transaction. Weeks turned into months and the sale dragged on and on. I kept ringing and emailing the agent and then the bombshell that the person renting the house wouldn’t move out even though it was not their house. After much worry and prayer, another house in the same area became available for a similar price out of nowhere. It was double the size and on the main street rather than the first one which was a bit out of the way. I got my deposit back and bid successfully on the other house. My bid was accepted and things flew by and before I knew it I owned the house. It is obvious to me now that God didn’t want me to live in the first one. Never underestimate the power of prayer.
My dream is to seek out other misfits and broken people just like me and with God’s help, I am sure that we can piece together again the broken pieces of ourselves.
I really consider myself fortunate to have been led to Christian Leaders Institute website and hope to learn a lot. I think my aspirations are growing more towards online chaplaincy as I think there is a real need in this cyber world.
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Ministry Training Recommendation
Thousands of students have been taking free ministry training classes at Christian Leaders Institute. Read how Christian Leaders Institute is helping Peter Mahase as a Christian leader. In his testimony, Peter gives a beautiful ministry training recommendation for CLI:
I was born in Lesotho. That is where most of my development has been, both in terms of academic and professional work. I was born in 1987, and I am the last born among my three siblings.
From a young age, I always had a zeal for the things of God but never gave my life to Christ. My father is a pastor, so I got exposure to a number of things in the ministry, such as Christian literature. I only got saved in 2002 at the age of 15 as a result of a strong urge from God to come to Him and a sense of urgency to serve Him. I got saved and moved straight into serving the Lord in evangelism. Note that there was no discipleship: I carried all the knowledge I had from my early ages, from books, sermons etc, into the ministry, building on a weak foundation. I quickly led a revival in my high school at the time, which brought more than 30% of the school to Christ in a period of two years. That was my take-off into ministry.
I have always loved serving the Lord but never saw myself as a pastor until 2011, when the pastor who I was seconding at the varsity (National University of Lesotho) church I was in had to leave, and I had to take over. This is where my role as a church leader started. I have since been serving here, given the blessing of my church, the Apostolic Faith Mission church in Lesotho. My title is Assembly Leader, not Pastor until I am ordained.
I have a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics from the National University of Lesotho. Since I got my degree, I have worked for Econet Telecom Lesotho. By the time I left in 2016 to respond to the call of the Lord and focus on ministry, I was a Network Quality Management Engineer. Leaving was a tough decision for a man who just got married in 2015, but I had to obey, and my wife was in full support.
In 2017, I made a decision to step down from ministry until I am better equipped to handle the Word and leading in the church. This decision was confusing and hard to grasp, to me and everyone around me. I believe God really wanted to use me but saw that for the work to be done, I would need proper training, lest I continue building on a weak foundation. A very humbling move from God, I must say, but I took it. I stepped down from all my ministry activity, including my leadership in my church, speaking engagements, Christian events business and the like to get proper ministry training and mentoring.
That is where Christian Leaders Institute came in. It came in highly recommended by my mentor as a free yet high-quality Christian ministry education and now I offer a ministry training recommendation to CLI as well. Since I had left my job, I had no funds to get my education, and I had also stepped down from ministry, meaning there was no ministry support for me to pay for any tuition, hence CLI was very relevant to my situation.
One of the major challenges in my country at the moment is many people preaching “the gospel” without proper ministry training. This exposes people to incorrect doctrine and twisted theology, making them follow a false god of our imaginations, instead of the God of the Bible. This is the thing that God was calling me out of when he asked me to step down from ministry. That is why I give a ministry training recommendation to CLI for its sound doctrine and Biblical teaching. Since beginning my training with CLI, the picture of God is becoming clearer with more study of Scripture, not from human ideas. The Lord is teaching me to take charge of my life with him before I rush to teach other people. He is teaching me to pastor my family before I can pastor a church. It is amazing how the Bible interaction part of the Getting Started class fits into this. My prayer is that my involvement in ministry training through CLI will not only help me in my calling but would encourage others as well.
My vision is bringing scores of young people (in Lesotho and beyond) to Christ and to make them radical Christians in their spheres of influence. This is where my ministry focus actually is. I am excited to continue with this call as I continue to get training. It has been an encouragement to see many young people readily receive the message, and many actually go on to be effective ambassadors for Christ.
My request for prayer would that I may be faithful to the course and become an effective steward of the Lord’s calling. The young generation really needs Godly mentors, and I am intent on being one, by God’s grace.
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