It has been my cry for so long to study the Word of God so that I may be able to “rightly divide the Word of truth,” that I may be able to lead well the flock which the Lord has entrusted to me. But because of the financial challenges, I couldn’t afford to. CLI ministry training for free is a great miracle to me and an answer of prayer. It is of great importance to me because it will help me be equipped with the right tools to accomplish what has been laid in my heart by the Lord.
CLI Ministry Training For Kenyans
My name is Chenze Jacob Ndune. I live in the city of Mombasa in the country Kenya. I am married to Stella and blessed with two boys, Jacob, 14, and Nathaniel, 11. Kenya is a land where people are hungry for the word of God. They love God a lot and this makes it a good place to do God’s ministry.
The Lord got me back in September 20, 1990, when I was stranded. My mother and father had died earlier in 1988 and 1990 respectively and I was left with a heavy task of looking after my younger sister and brother while I was still young and without a job, we suffered a lot. So I had to become a robber so as to earn a living. We had no one to take care of us, so medication became a difficult thing to get. My brother had to go to the dumping place to look for food from garbage, where later on he took poison and died. My younger sister married while underage. Life lost its meaning and I didn’t see the reason for living. I decided to commit suicide and there is when Jesus sent His servants, preached to me and I received Him as my personal Savior. Life changed, I was healed and it dawned on me, thank you Jesus for rescuing me from this great damnation. I went to church and He gave me a family who loved me and made earth a better place to live again.
In me grew the zeal to live for God, to know Him and serve Him. This zeal led me to have times for fasting and praying that God used to guide my life. One time, in July 12, 1991 when I was in a three days fasting and praying before God, He appeared to me and told me “Lift up my name and I will draw people to myself.” After that the zeal to serve Him grew so intensely which led me to be ordained as an Evangelist and was sent out in 1994. Later on, I was ordained as Pastor and founded a church known as, Siloam Pool Missions, which I Pastor.
Our dream is to reach out to the unreachable with the gospel and plant churches where there are none. Our major challenge is resources whereby it becomes very hard to fulfill what God has laid in our hearts because it takes very long to achieve minimal. The speed on fulfilling one’s calling is very low, the church tries to support the vision but because of poverty challenges, they can’t do it to the maximum and this becomes a great discouragement to many ministers of the gospel in our land which leads others to quit the ministry and do other things. My family has been so supportive to my ministry calling which has been a great encouragement to me and has kept me moving this long. They are always contented with the humble life of faith we live and this makes me to greatly thank God for them.
I pray that CLI will pray for me and my ministry that God will give us the right resources so that we may be able to carry out and fulfill the vision in right speed and time.
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Christian Leading, Calling, Gifts To Fulfill Our Individual Purpose
“When I turned 15, God had instilled in my life another passion. God began molding me to become, well who I am today. As much as I love music, I love ministering through my music even more because it allows me to be able to tell all of you the reason why I am alive today. It allows me to be able to tell all of you the reason why I do all of these things. It allows me to tell you that perfection took form of man and died for each and every one of us for our sins and rose again on the third day. That is the reason why I’m here. I’m here because I want to grow more in the word. A goal of mine is to see God use the youth group I’m currently leading alongside with my friend Rich to reach out to the city of Miami. Our youth group name is Revive, and the reason is because not only do I believe God is going to Revive our youth group, but God will revive our city.” -Alexander Rodriguez
Hello! My name is Alexander Rodriguez, but I go by Alex. I was born in the year of 1991 in good old Miami, Florida. My father, brother, and I are engineers. My dad is a mechanical engineer. My brother is a computer and electrical engineer, and I am an electrical engineer. I work as a sales engineer with my dad at the family owned business called ALLI Pumps, Inc. Before anything though I wanted to share the greatest day of my life. The day I started my personal relationship with Jesus Christ and accepted Him as my Lord and Savior.
I was 4 years old. One day I was in the bath tub and asked my mom what salvation was. She explained to me what it was and how to accept it, and on that evening I prayed with my mother. I remember after I prayed I felt a complete joy in my heart, and honestly I thank God every day for that because if it hadn’t been for that day I wouldn’t be doing the things that I’m doing right now.
For example, I love worshiping our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ through music. I play guitar, drums, bass, piano, and I sing and write songs to exalt our Heavenly Father. One of my passions is Christian leading in worship, but aside from that my other passion is to minister to the youth. I work with a youth group for my church and it’s amazing what God is doing in there. I am also a family man. My parents have raised both me and my older brother to be family men. I went on my first missionary trip to Nicaragua with my parents and my brother when I was 7. My parents have been serving in church for nearly 3 decades. My brother also shares the same passion for music if not stronger. He is truly gifted. Neither he nor I have taken any music classes, and we praise God every day for our musical talents.
I love worshiping our Heavenly Father. I love singing the sweet name of Jesus Christ. I’ve been able to have the honor and privilege to worship Him through singing ever since I was 7 years old. God gave me the words to my very first song at that age, and ever since He has written many songs through me. I then started playing instruments when I was 12 and by the time I was 14, I was playing the drums, bass, acoustic, and electric guitar alongside with my mentor/hero/older brother, Luis Rodriguez.
Christian leading at Christian Leaders Institute will help me achieve that goal in reaching out to our youth because it will allow me to gain more knowledge of the word of God. The knowledge that I will learn here will better equip me when I face lost youth, or even a lost city because again Lord willing, God will use me to lead them to His feet. I always say to the youth group that yes Jesus is the light of this world but we are the light holders. It’s like a flash light. We know the flash light works and that when it’s on it will illuminate the darkness, but someone needs to turn it on.
With a Christian leading ministry program at Christian Leaders Institute will help me shine His light. If you will, let “Jesus’ ” flashlight not only shine on the lost souls of Miami, but Lord willing on the lost souls of the world. I would encourage everyone who reads this to please pray for not only me, but for those who I will be working with so that God may be able to use us in a powerful way.
Christian Leading In Different Areas Of Ministry
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“I identify most with the term youth leader because I enjoy being able to be creative and find ways to present the Word in a fun and interactive manner. It is also my passion to help youth overcome their circumstances and experience the peace and love that comes with knowing the Lord. I am so passionate about this because when I was growing up I experienced some negative things with peers which led to some damaging behaviors. Also, youth are bombarded by the media to live according to the world’s standards, which only brings heartache. It is so important for our youth to have a positive place to go where they have a chance to experience the love of the Lord.”
Being A Youth Leader Is More Than Just A Job, It’s A Passion- A Calling
My name is Ashley C and I live in the United States of America. I recently received my Masters in Social Work, which was a vital step in deciding to be involved in ministry (I will answer how Social Work led me to ministry later in my story).
I enjoy doing youth ministry and seeing the change in those we help. Doing ministry here has its pros and cons. I am thankful for the freedom that we do have to live as Christians and it is great connecting with fellow Christians as well. It is awesome to see the people that do accept Christ, and being able to help disciple those the Lord leads to us. There are challenges that we face in that there are so many who come against Christ and claim that Christianity is bigoted and oppressive. With so many people following mainstream culture it is often difficult to get people to understand what the Bible is really about. Often times they believe the twisted lies our culture tells them about the Bible instead of studying the Bible for themselves or being open to hearing another view point. There can also be challenges in coming together as one. There are times when people see denominations as dividers and get caught in seeing each other as competition rather than uniting as Christians to be more effective.
I grew up knowing about the Lord but did not understand what it meant to surrender your life to Christ and follow His will. There were also things I saw from Christians that were hurtful and that I did not understand. When I reached my mid-twenties I started to feel hopeless and to think that there had to be more to life, so I started to study the Bible for myself. During this time I took an internship in Child Protective Services. I started to feel more hopeless because of what I saw happening in families, but the Lord led me to various other books and tools to help me realize I needed to surrender my life to Christ and start living my life for Him.
I currently work in ministry with my husband. The Lord laid it on our hearts to be a youth leader in a youth center. We co-founded 2 Rise Above Youth Ministry where we provide a positive environment for youth to rise above the negative circumstances in their lives. We utilize the Word of God in conjunction with evidence based psychological interventions to help youth live out their faith. It is our dream to be able to do this ministry full-time, as well as share Christ with more youth and help them to heal and grow in their faith. It is our goal to create more curricula related to life skills and social/emotional/spiritual well being; as well as travel throughout Wisconsin and share this ministry with others.
The Lord prompted me to start a ministry when I was taking a Forensic Social Work class and I saw just how oppressive our juvenile justice system was. We were using methods that actually increased criminal activity rather than decreased it. After doing a paper on ways we could improve our juvenile justice system with positive interventions, I saw that this was something my husband and I could do through as a youth leader in a youth center.
Our ministry is located in a small town. We have encountered challenges with the community being guarded to a new presence and seeing us as a threat rather than a partner.
We have had to rely strongly on the Lord while preparing our ministry because we went through a period where individuals at our previous church were dissuading youth from being involved in our ministry. There was a sense of competition from these individuals who were not willing to see how we could work together. We ended up finding another church (for various reasons) and they have offered prayer and encouragement when we have faced challenges.
Training with CLI to become a youth leader would help achieve our ministry goals because I want my biblical training to be as in depth as my training in social work. I want to provide accurate biblical information in the curricula and these classes would allow me to do that. Training to be a youth leader under CLI’s free online study program, would further help achieve these goals because I have already accrued a lot of student loan debt and thus do not have the funds to pay for other high quality biblical instruction.
My husband and I would appreciate prayers for wisdom, perseverance, guidance, and strength as we continue our ministry. In regards to our ministry we would appreciate prayers for unity, increased connections, funding, and future students.
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