International Ministry Dream
Read the testimony of the CLI student who has an international ministry dream. He wants to travel the world raising up more revival leaders.
I am currently living in the United States of America in Cincinnati Ohio, right by the river in a small town called Newport. I live in a small town with several churches all doing great things and doing all they can to reach the ends of the earth to share the gospel.
I found God 3 years ago when I moved away from a shady city north of where I am now. I was surrounded by so-called friends who were using drugs and living a blind and aimless life. I decided it was time to make a major life change and distance myself from the bad crowd as I was tired of being guilty by association. I quickly chose a college degree path, fell in love with the woman I am engaged to now, and set up a new start here in Newport getting grounded in my church where I started to really study the word of God.
My international ministry dream is one that will have many moving parts. I want to be deeply rooted in my local church and build a team to travel the world in the heart of spreading the good news. I am currently managing a blog and youtube channel to share videos that helped me along the way with authors, pastors, etc.
CLI has really helped me dig deeper into the word and figure out how to use it on a daily basis for guidance in my everyday walk, and I have found a passion for writing. I identify with Evangelist, I really believe that God has put an adventures heart in me to travel and a passion for leadership.
When I heard my younger siblings start to ask the bigger questions in life I immediately took the reins and showed them the Bible. I remember the look on their face and the way they received it, it made me feel like I gave them a treasure chest.
Some challenges my geographic area faces is the number of churches that exist, and people may feel like they are all too different and may never choose.
The Bible now serves as my manual to this human vessel. It directs my path and is the lamp of light on my pathway. It gives me hope, it inspires me, and helps me relate to the past soldiers of Christ who tell their tales of faith.
I am assuming new roles in the Church as a men’s bible study leader.
My family had no knowledge of Christ prior to my transformation, and now we are taking steps to help them grow in faith.
This scholarship would inspire me to devote the rest of my life to spreading the word, and changing peoples live the way it changed me from the inside out. A life without God would mean nothing matters, and a life with God means every single thing matters with eternal echoes.
Please pray that I don’t lose hope, and wake up every single morning with the hope of spreading the gospel to as many people as I can with the resources I have.
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Evangelism Ministry Training
Join today and receive free evangelism ministry training. Christian Leaders Institute (CLI) offers free high-quality online ministry training. CLI accepts any individual anywhere in their life to learn about Christianity. Read a student’s testimony below who found CLI and is using the free evangelism ministry to answer his call from God.
I am currently living in the United States. I was born and raised in Jasper, TX where I reside now. I am one of five siblings all deceased, except one. I am the wife and a mother of six: Lariesha, Dewanda, Melinda, Beatrice, Elton Jr; and Carolyn who passed away on September 2016. My husband Elton & I have known each other since 1978. We separated for a while & we reconciled in 1999. I accepted Christ at an early age, although I backslid in my adolescent years which led me to a life of substance abuse and prison. I rededicated my life back to Christ in Federal prison in 1997. Today, I am saved, sanctified, and filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. A praying woman who loves her family and reaches out for lost souls and do all I can to be true to the call of God. When I got out of prison, I went back to my former leadership of an Apostle in Jasper, TX where I served for 17 years. I taught adult Sunday school, Bible study groups. I was an event coordinator, and I obtained great blessings by submitting myself to this leadership. I was a very faithful servant, witness, and a true ambassador for the Lord. I went back to school in 2004 and I achieved an Associate and a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from University of Phoenix online campus, I also, achieved a degree in the New Testament Study from World Bible College, and a Master Degree in Religion from Liberty University.
In 2011, God called me out of that ministry and gave me a charge to start an outreach center here in Jasper TX. It is called “Try Jesus Outreach” where many have come and accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior. The outreach commission was to reach out to family first and then to spread abroad. My family plays the biggest role in the ministry for me because my greatest desire is for all of them to experience a true relationship with Christ, to be saved, and to serve him with gladness. We are still on that commission today. God charge me to freely give to others as I have freely received of him. The ministry dream I have is to be able to lead people into the agenda of God for their lives by teaching them biblical principles and leadership tools. This class in CLI’s evangelism ministry training has renewed my connection with God, I have been able to relish my relationship with him, making me feel confident that I can mentor others. I believe Christian Leadership Institute can train me to be effective in leadership and also allow me to help others lead. My goal is to make disciples for Christ. I identify with the word “Evangelist,” although I am an ordained Pastor. I see myself as being an Apostle planting churches and leaders in various places. I have dreams of going all over the world, spreading the good news. I am a witness of how God has pointed me in the direction of doing the work of an Evangelist, as well as leading my family and others into the agenda of God for their lives. CLI’s free evangelism ministry training will allow me to follow these dreams.
My family is very supported and I am so thankful to God that they are and they have willing minds. I have a few churches here in Jasper who are supported and leaders who are my mentors as I study to become a great leader through Christian Leadership Institute. Please pray with me that I will fulfill God’s will for my life and help others to learn of Christ and his ultimate sacrifice of love. Pray that I will be equipped to lead them into his purpose for their lives and pray that I am a living example to them.
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Hospice Care Ministry
Join today and receive free hospice care ministry training. Christian Leaders Institute (CLI) offers free high-quality online ministry training. CLI accepts any individual anywhere in their life to learn about Christianity. Read a student’s testimony below who found CLI and is using the free hospice care ministry to answer his call from God.
My name is Joey Miller. I live in a small town in Texas. My path to the Lord has taken a winding road. Growing up, the Lord wasn’t present in our house. My parents owned two bars and many a Sunday was spent cleaning them up after a rowdy Saturday night. I grew into manhood not knowing who Jesus was. I remember once as a teen trying to read the Bible. We had one, but I’m not sure where it came from. As you do most books, I started reading the bible from the beginning in hopes to work my way to the end. That lasted until I got to the “begets”. Once there, I gave up my quest of learning about God and His Son.
Through the next forty years, I was married multiple times, blessed with a great son, and lived a life of work, partying and nonbelief. When I was in my early fifties, I met a good, Christian woman. Through this lady, I began to bring the Lord into my life. I was rather hesitant to have this happen, but to make her happy I went along for the ride. Through a series of bad relationship decisions that culminated in us not seeing one another anymore, I found myself alone again.
One night when I was alone at the house, I was sitting watching a movie ( Madea Goes to Jail) and a line in that movie woke me up. That night I called my former girlfriend and spoke with her. She drove forty miles to come and visit me that evening. With her, she had a card of a pastor that was over the Celebrate Recovery program at the church she was attending. That week I called him and set up a meeting and that was when my Christian journey really began.
Over the next year, I started attending church regularly, began Celebrate Recovery, was baptized and married that fine, upstanding Christian woman. My walk with the Lord has not seen its share of stumbles, but I can say that it has continually moved forward. I have been part of the audio/video team, on the executive team, and headed up the men’s ministry at the church we attend. I still find; though, that I am lacking something. I find that I am afraid to discuss my beliefs with others because of a lack of knowledge of the Bible. Those “begets” still get me.
I am closing in on sixty now, but have a fervent need to know the Lord and His Son. My wife and I minister at the local nursing home. We visit twice a month, sings songs, quote scripture, and love on our elderly friends. There are many of those residents that will not be on this earth very much longer. If I can bring the joy of Jesus Christ into their life before they leave, what a blessing that will be. The world today is in need of Jesus. I want to help bring His Word to whomever I meet, but to do that I need knowledge. That is where the Christian Leadership Institute comes in. I have only gotten through the opening, “get to know you” course and have learned and been enlightened considerably.
My wife and I are hoping to take this course together. To build a hospice care ministry that will be able to share God’s word through knowledge, but also through love and grace. We will continue our nursing home ministry, with hopes of branching out to other homes or residences. We also want to take His word to the streets and be able to share His love and sacrifice to non-believers and those whose faith is wavering.
I feel with the heart for the Lord that I now have, with the support of my wife and Christian family, and with the education I can receive from the Christian Leadership Institute that I will be able to accomplish my goal. I ask that you pray for my wife and me to persevere in our quest for knowledge, that we will be like sponges soaking in everything that comes our way.
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