English Ministry Training in China
Getting Quality English ministry training in China used to be very difficult. The Chrisitan Leaders Institute English Ministry Training in China has been accessed by an ever-growing number of Christian leaders who live in China. Christian Leaders Institute is dedicated to bringing free, high-quality english ministry training everywhere supported by Vision Partners worldwide. The English language ministry curriculum is carefully designed not to become involved with ruling governments. Instead, CLI promote academically rigorous ministry training that helps Christians thrive in peace wherever they live.
Here is a Chinese Ph.D. Christian Leader who has taken our English training. His name is withheld. Here is his story.
Like many traditional Chinese households, I came from a Buddhist family in which my mother and my grandmother was a Buddhists. My two younger sisters and I were “given” to the Buddha when we were young for the sake of receiving his blessing. My father was an atheist but he followed the ritual. We were given the fantasy that the Buddha was a Santa-Clause. My mom always told us to worship the Buddha by heart and our wish would be realized. So my sisters and I followed and most of the time it was true.
When the first time I was away from home for college, I met my very good classmate, and now my wife. She was very devoted in Christ and to me it was crazy. She gave me a Bible in 2002 and began to pray for me since then. It was 15 years ago. She was the first person to pray for my salvation.
After college, I returned to Hong Kong while she stayed in San Francisco with her family. I still joined my mom and grandma to monasteries and practiced the usual worship. My wife and I became boyfriend and girlfriend in 2009 and we were in a 3-year long distance relationship. We visited churches on Sundays whenever we were together, sometimes in HK, sometimes in San Francisco. I mirrored my past experience to church, thinking that God was also a Santa-Clause. I was very stubborn. Pastor Jim and Elaine gave very good sermons about tough times in the last few weeks, I basically denied tough times. And I doubt.
My parents separated in 2012. They are not divorced, but separated. I was forced by my mother and my sister to buy an apartment for my father. I told them I couldn’t get married if I buy him the apartment. Where the money come? But I gave in because I lost the debate. I had been very bitter until our real marriage took place in 2015. I don’t want to spend too much time on that but I you to know my journey was very bitter in the past few years. I began to think why this kind of thing would happen to a devoted Buddhist. Didn’t they receive blessing from the Buddha?
My wife came to Hong Kong in 2012 September as a PhD students at HKU. We hang out more often and went to church almost every Sunday. I still felt bitter and I doubt about God. I guess I received a vision from God during Easter in 2014.
1st scene – cross floating on a sea of blood.2nd scene – a stained glass window open with a man in white robe behind.
To be honest, I didn’t care at all. I still treat God as a Santa-Clause. Whenever He granted my wish, I was happy, otherwise, I was in doubt again.
But the more I came to church, the more that I listen to God’s words, the more that I experienced with people having faith in God, I felt peace. And God also saved my wife’s live many times. There were few times in the past my wife encountered life-and-death sickness. We prayed to God. He better the situation. My wife has been praying for my parents to reunite, and there seems to be improvement.
My understanding is that it is a living God. And he did answer prayer. Only when you have enough faith in Him, you will see that He always helps you and answers your prayer, in His timing and in His plan however. For my wife’s case, God healed her right away. For my conversion to Christian, it took 15 years of prayer. I don’t know why. But I do have faith in Him. Last December I quit my job and my wife received her PhD degree finally. We were both full-time jobless. We prayed together. And we cried together. We set up a company to do business and hoping that the profit will be sufficient enough to build Christian schools in 3rd world countries. It was my wife’s wishes. And I thought it was very crazy. But I respect my wife and we have faith God will help. Just a few weeks ago, we found some potential cash-flow. And things are starting to put into place. I see the green light God gives us. And I just want to be baptised right away before any of our actual carried out. It would be my promise to God. And I want to follow Jesus Christ, who baptised before carrying out his ministry work. So this is it.
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My name is Ashlee Peckham. I live in a small town in the U.S.A. Proudly married to the love of my life and biggest fan, and blessed to be the mother of two amazing boys. Living in the U.S is a difficult country. We have so many different religious cultures, some that idolize other figures besides God. We have believers and we have the non-believers. Where I live the population is small but we are nowhere short of a number of churches. In my area, the biggest problem would have to be those who don’t support your religious freedoms. Suddenly praying over your lunch in a restaurant is wrong, saying the name “God” is offensive, and people actually harass you for having faith. Even though I will proudly stand up and confess my love for the Lord, some are scared to even be caught with a bible.
My calling was none the less short of a blessing in disguise, and involving a major traumatic experience in my life; it made my calling so much more emotional. I am 22 years old, and my whole life has been like walking the plank every time I turn around. Growing up I had a far from perfect childhood. The one I wish I could just forget. All through the hardships, my mother was my best friend. We never left each other’s sides, and if we did we had made a promise to always tell each other where we were going even if it was to the grocery store. Life carries on, like mother and daughter relationships we had our ups and downs but never growing apart. Fast forward a couple years, newly engaged, pregnant with her very first grandson and tragedy hits. The day after my baby shower 9 months pregnant and my mother was killed in a car accident. My life is shattered. A motherless mother. At first, I did what most any human would do I begged God to bring her back to me, and when he didn’t I resented him, but not for long. A year later I find myself back in our hometown making a whole congregation cry at my confessions because of God’s Grace I was saved. A couple years later, I look back on how much pain, fear, and just how alone I was and now I don’t see how anyone could walk through their day to day lives not knowing God.
My dream in ministry is to spread the love, word, and belief of God to whoever will listen. I can see myself as a preacher or a youth leader being my age is close to most troubled teens. As mentioned before the thought of people who do not know God is simply heartbreaking to me. They do not know how loved they are, what God has done for them, what Jesus has done for them, they do not even know his story or what he represents. They do not know there is an end to their pain, to feeling alone, being scared, and even if they do know God they think their sins are too much that how could any God love them? They feel guilty, ashamed, unworthy, but the worst pain which I know the feeling all too well, the feeling that you have let God down. I want to show them there is light at the end of the tunnel; I want them to feel that sense of relief and redemption that I felt when I gave my life fully to God. I let the old me go, my old sins, my fears, I gave it all to God. I want others to feel the peace and love God gave me. I know I will be able to start on my journey to my dream through CLI’s free Christian classes.
None of these dreams would have even been set in place if it wasn’t for the support of my church. One couple, in particular, has made the biggest impact on my life. They have always been there to support me, helped pick up the pieces of not having a mother and try their best to be good role models for my children. When I told them that I wanted to pursue my ministry dream they were more than ecstatic. At that very moment, I knew they were proud of me and even told me so. It came as a surprise to me but my preacher believes that I can make an impact on so many lives, and by him believing so much in me I feel like I can do just about anything. The greatest part about all of this is the impact it has made on my family. I have a new found love for my husband and my children. I find myself walking, talking, and acting like a minister student. It has helped me to grow my relationship with God and set certain things aside that are no longer irrelevant. I even see a change in my husband; he wants to be the reflection image of me as I am of him. We are doing everything as a team, and those daily “I am so proud of your messages” really boost my confidence that I can and will succeed.
Where I am located, colleges are very few to none. Especially a Christian college, and with working full time, and two little boys to raise; a scholarship to CLI would be the biggest blessing. I can work, raise my boys, and take free Christian classes during my free time every day. By gaining this scholarship it will be giving me access to more knowledge of things I do not know or understand yet about God, Jesus, and the bible. I want to take all of the free Christian classes possible, learning and growing every day. My goal in taking classes at CLI is whenever I go to tell people about the word of God, I can answer them knowledgeably, with proof from the Bible, and answer them in a way God would want me to.
In my ministry journey, a prayer I ask for most of all is understanding. Please pray for my understanding of everything I am being taught, knowledge and strength to endure it all no matter the cost. How many times I fail to never let me loose hope or faith in myself, that I ever forget why I am doing this in the first place. That in the end, I will be able to help and reach as many lives as possible. That my dream of saving the lost souls will become true. That everyone that I cross paths with will know God and will know his story. That no person has to ever live without knowing God.
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Brazil English Ministry Training
Brazil English Ministry Training in now made possible because of the Internet. Milena found this training on a google search. There are not many opportunities to study ministry in Brazil. Here is her story
I’m Milena Rangel Carvalho and I was born in 1998 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
I am currently living in Brazil and by the Grace of God here we’re allowed to spread His Word wherever we want, but unfortunately the country has suffered with many false prophets that use the faith of believers only to get their money. But, hopefully there are also many who are faithful to God and are blessing us with their ministry.
I started living with Jesus when I was 12. I was going to my Mom’s church and there I gave my life to Jesus and accepted Him as my Savior and Lord. Few years later (when I was around 15) I started having experiences with God and knowing more about the ministry calling. Today I know I’m called to the ministry and I want to be as much prepared as I can to be used by God wherever He sends me. My heart is burning for this calling and that’s my dream: to be used by God to bless people and to be a bridge to connect Him to those who are lost.
One of the things I love to do is to read the Bible searching for more information about our God, and these classes have helped me a lot with some aspects I didn’t know very well before. The word Pastor really touches my heart. Being someone who guides a church, is extremely connected to God and always looking for knowing more about the Bible and pursuing wisdom to do the things in a way that pleases Him.
Called to Brazil English Ministry Training
Since I turned 18, God has given me some experiences which have made me realized that, even though I am nothing, God can use me. Even though I have many failings, He is only worried only about my heart. In my geographic area, we have a lot of people that was once a believer but have turned away from the Faith, especially young people who have being deceived by the things of this world and have turned away from God. We also have those who were frustrated with their Christian leaders, and because of this, they have also left the church.
In my Church, we have the habit to read the whole Bible every year, and that’s really helpful to keep us connected to the Word of God, which is usually where He talks to us. The Bible it’s most important guidance I have, specially because in my age I’ve seen that those who live without it are mostly lost and making wrong decisions for their lives.
I love my local church, it has supported me a lot in my ministry and walk with God, it always motivates us to increase our relationship with Him and let our lives be guided by Him. My Family isn’t very supportive of my ministry life, but actually they don’t know a lot about it. I live with my Mom, who is blessing in my life, but my Father doesn’t support me very much in my dreams and He isn’t a follower of Christ yet. I usually just talk about these ministry goals and dreams with my mother.
Called to Brazil English Ministry Training
Unfortunately, in my town, we don’t have many courses like Bible Colleges and Seminaries, and the ones that exist are at night, but I have college at the same time so I can’t be there. Someday, I was looking on the internet and then I found the Christian Leaders Institute and I thought “Oh my God, this is perfect for me! I love English and I want to be prepared for the ministry!”.
I believe the CLI is helping me to know more about the Bible, the leadership, and especially about Revival, and it’s also preparing me to the challenges I might have leading people to Christ.
Please, pray for me to never forget God’s purposes for my life and to always persevere in His Way, and also for my family so they’ll support me more in this area of my life.