French Ministry Training
French Ministry Training is something CLI is seeing a need for in the world. French is a spoken language in over 40 countries. CLI is in the process of translating classes into French in order to provide French ministry training everywhere.
Over 20 countries in Africa have French as the official language. Graduates of CLI in French Africa report the desperate need for French ministry training. One graduate, Domoina, lives everyday in a place where the Muslim religion is active and spreading. This graduate writes “my goal is to reach people in my country and in French countries, mainly in countries where Muslims still misunderstand the place of women in the family and society. According to the Muslim religion’s point of view in 10 years, Madagascar will be ‘muslimed’.” CLI wants to raise up more leaders in Africa by offering CLI classes in French.
Africa also is a place where Christianity is growing very rapidly. One problem is that many of the ministers have little training for being a pastor in a church. CLI is adding French in order to allow French ministry training to be available everywhere in Africa.
The French Ministry Training is needed in Africa but also in France, Haiti, Belgium and so many more countries. Adding the French language to CLI will allow for millions of more leaders to have the opportunity to be trained for the ministry.
The French program is being lead by Dr. Paul Mpindi, who has a passion to help French speaking people all over the world. Mpindi’s “Mission French Africa exists to preach and teach the Gospel to win French speaking African Muslims to Christ, to disciple African Christians in Biblical stewardship, and encourage the Body of Christ in America.” Mpindi’s vision and the CLI mission connect at a strategic level and French Ministry Training will be available at CLI soon. To learn more about Mission French Africa click here.
Watch Dr. Paul Mpindi talk about the CLI Partnership. Click here
In rural towns through the world, volunteer fire and disaster first responders provide an essential service to their community. Christians leaders can also provide a necessary service as first responder chaplains for their community.
First Responder Chaplains can fill the following roles:
• Counsel law enforcement officers, emergency medical and firefighter personnel
• Visit the sick or injured
• Give death notifications
• Teach personnel in the area of stress management
• Perform funerals, memorials, and weddings
• Answer spiritual questions
• Provide assistance to victims and their families in communities to deal with emergencies. Such as fire, suicide, auto or plane accident, earthquake, or times of illness, injury, death or significant trauma.
• Ministers to the imprisoned
Click here to find out more.
First Responder Chaplains
Christan Leaders Institute (CLI) is training first responder chaplains like Rich Kauffman from the United States. CLI offers a broad range of advanced classes for people training to be First Responder Chaplains.
Kauffman lives in the US with his wife and three daughters. Kauffman had experiences in his life that led him to want to be part of the first responder chaplains’ team. “After moving to a new town, I was busy with a new job. My wife was fighting a battle that kept her in and out of the hospital for over four years. I did lose touch with my local church. But my family and I stayed in our faith in our home by celebrating the Lord’s life and talking about his teachings. I have been in public safety since high school and have seen many things throughout my career. These led to a lot of trials in my life. A lot of struggling with how much bad can happen to us all and why it is happening. I fought to understand and cope with these issues.”
Kauffman shared his dependence on God. “I started volunteering with a disaster services group and underwent a lot of training with critical incident stress. Through this, I realized that so many people wanted to use their faith as part of the coping mechanisms they have.” Kauffman sees that people going through tough situation need First Responder Chaplains to encourage them to lean on God in hard times.
Kauffman believes volunteer First Responder Chaplains are necessary especially in rural areas. “Living now in a rural, small town USA, I am looking to become ordained to be available to assist our first responders and the people we help in their times of needs. I hope to help lower the amount of stress induced problems that are way too common in our field.” Kauffman sees CLI as a way to become more qualified to assist on the First Responders Chaplains team. “I am looking to further my training through CLI as a means to offer support to those in my community.”
CLI makes First Responder Chaplains training available free of charge. Click Here to find out more details on how you can become ordained locally.
Nigerian Ordination Story
My name is Abutu Onche Simon Umoru. I was born in 1976 as a Nigerian, brought up in the Northern part of the country, in the Army barracks where my father was serving the Nigerian Army. I grew up in a home with eight children. During my secondary School days, I developed a desire to serve God even as a Catholic, I use to fellowship with other denomination outside our church. As we share the gospel together with the brethren from other denomination, I discovered that there is a vacuum in me that needed to be filled. My life was changed completely in 1994 when I surrendered to Christ and decided to make Him my personal Lord and Savior.
I completed my higher national diploma in management from the Benue State Polytechnic by 2006, after my father’s retirement from active service. Am married to Mary, a caring wife since 2010 and the Lord has blessed our union with two boys. Presently we live in Otukpa, Benue State Nigeria. We fellowship with a church called “The Established Pentecostal Church of Christ”.
In Benue state, we Have lots of Churches. As the middle belt of the country, doing ministry here requires patience and commitment. This end time you see many people attending and bearing denominational names without bearing the fruits of genuine repentance. In my place, people belong to one church or the other, though crime and lawlessness are on the increase. About 40% of the people living in my locality are literate while most of the illiterate ones live in rural areas, since they can not read and write, it makes a rural work more tedious since one will need to adopt the people by using their language to present the gospel to them.
CLI has been a blessing to me; I have obtained a diploma of ministry through there support. I will ever live to appreciate the impact of some of the professors especially my mentor professor Henry Reyenga Jr. There good tutelage has been of tremendous blessing. My learning experience with CLI has been inspiring. Initially, I intended to take only the getting started class. I discovered more of the grace of God shed on my ministerial callings as I delve into Further studies with CLI. My life and ministry is been greatly transformed by some of these courses like the: Church History, sermon construction and presentation, Church Planting, People Smart for ministry, Christian Ethics ,Exegesis, among others. My passion for the presentation of the Gospel has been raised to a level that nothing matters to me like the Gospel. Am now well equipped to present the Gospel at every slight opportunity, care for the members of the fold in my own way as the spirit directs.
Nigerian Ordination through CLI
At ordination, I believe the grace of God will help me to harness all my potentials to fulfill my ministry goals. I have passion for youth evangelism, rural outreaches, Missions and Church administration. Currently, my wife and I are assisting in the work of the gospel in a branch of our church in Otukpa a village in Benue State. As a bi-vocational minister, I feel the ordination will launch me into full commitment to the work as an associate pastor in our church and my wife will be assisting in the musical department.
My ordination will brighten up the future of my calling; I feel the urgent need to present the undiluted word of God to the people of my generation. Like brother Jude said in Jude 3, that we should earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the saints.
I identify with the word Pastor because it is my earnest desire to know people, preach to and teach them the principles of the kingdom that will help them to grow into the fullness of Christ.
Our local Church has been very supportive. The state overseer have been backing us with prayers and giving other necessary guidance during my studies. The church also requested that we share our visions with the senior pastors so that they can pray along with us and serve as mentors to aid effectiveness in our area of calling. I have been requested to forward my certificate to serve the Church after my training and ordination as a pastor.
Please pray that God will release His grace on me abundantly so that, I will be effective in the ministry. That the entire future ministry goal God lay in my heart will find expression as I live to fulfill His mandate alone.