FREE MINISTRY SCHOOL WITH CLI
Is a free ministry school possible? Nothing is without cost! Someone must support the school budget. What if the school was supported like a local church gets support? A local church is free to attend. The local church is supported by donations and locally generated income such as a bookstore. What if that school was supported by donations and locally generated income?
Christian Leaders Institute is a ministry school that operates under that model. The courses are free. Students and other Christian foundations or groups support the operations of the online program. There is more income that is generated when people purchase branded products or personalized recognition.
Does This Concept Work?
Since 2006, over 30,000 people have completed ministry training. Over 2,400 Christian leaders have become licensed or ordained with the Christian Leaders Alliance.
Global Christian leaders have endorsed the Christian Leaders Institute concept. Rev. Francis Chan, for instance, has endorsed this free ministry training concept.
Join Thousands of Students At CLI
What can you do with these free courses? You can:
- Get free digital credentials useful for training as a volunteer or part-time ministry leader.
- Get college credentials with the CLI’s Leadership Excellence School. Complete the bachelor program and get accepted to accredited colleges like Ohio Christian University. Perfect for Ministry Master degrees for career-bound ministry leaders.
- Become licensed or ordained with the Christian Leaders Alliance. There are many clergy roles available that include ministry training and recommendations. You will be posted in the global clergy directory.
Christian Leaders Institute graduates populate the earth including graduates in over 180 countries.
HEAR FROM A CLI GRADUATE
My name is Charles Easterday. I live in the United States of America. Because of little persecution, ministry is not too difficult yet neither is it easy. People are free to seek as they choose, believe as they wish, go to the church they choose or don’t go at all. The problem this creates for the Christian minister is that there is a sense, in the greater populace, of no 
real or absolute truth. With the growth of the New Atheist movement in secular schools of thought and education, ridicule to any form of belief has become the norm in these establishments. This is adding burden to those not grounded in biblical truths and we have seen a great many Christian youth fall away from faith.
I was not raised in a Christian home. At the age of sixteen, I was invited to a youth rally where I was introduced to the salvation message for the first time. I saw love and excitement for Jesus and experienced love and acceptance from people I did not know. This was lacking in my life and in my home so I gave my life to Christ.
Before I can tell you my ministry dream, I have to tell you more of my salvation story. Not many months after my salvation the same people who invited me to the youth rally, and subsequently to their church, invited me to a house party. It was here I was introduced to something new, something else not discussed in my home. Here I was introduced to alcohol, marijuana, and sex. For the next twenty-five years, my life was a complete rollercoaster of one disastrous event after another. I continued to move from one church to another looking for answers to my confusion and pain. Looking back, I thank God that He never let go of me, that the Holy Spirit continued to prod me, but I was not grounded in the basic truths and continued to flounder. I could make a book out of this, but I’ll stop here.
When I stopped looking to man-made religions to answer my problems and looked to God’s Word as my sole guide for my life, with the guidance of a couple godly men (mentors) that were placed in my life, I started to find the peace that Jesus was talking about. I still have struggles like everyone else but I have learned that God is greater than my struggles.
My ministry dream is to help restore the Church to its former glory as a unified body, a bride fit for the marriage to the Lamb of God. A body that cares for and nurtures all its parts. A Church that sells its’ possessions to meet needs, sacrifices time, and materials for unity’s sake. This can only happen when I take the time and invest in people, lifting them up in prayer, teaching biblical basics, establishing foundations for growth and become the change I want to see in others. I know that from here revival fires will burn hotter than ever before. I sincerely believe that such a revival is on the horizon and I want to be in the middle of it. That is why I am seeking a more formal education from CLI’s free ministry school. I have a lot of knowledge but it needs to be cemented together in a usable form. CLI’s free ministry school is an answer to my prayer.
With CLI being a free ministry school, I fill an extremely important part of my ministry dream as I feel it would be nearly impossible to fulfill without it. Though nothing is impossible with God, I need the experience, guidance, training and education that CLI’s free ministry school is offering coupled with the wonderful and supportive mentorship of my church and my Internet mentor and friend. My prayer needs are that I stay focused on God through this process and follow as He guides. That, though my intellect may be stretched and grow with further education, I remain humble and filled with the love of Christ.
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No longer look at seminary or college as your only option to receive ministry training! CLI is a free ministry school where every bit of your training is done on the internet! Our mission is to build up as many revival leaders as we can. To send out the called into the battlefield to make way for Jesus our Lord and Savior. Spread the Gospel! God bless!
“Receiving a christian leadership education training from CLI is considered a great blessing. Being a father of two in this economy is not easy, it can sometimes be very hard. But being able to receive this type of knowledge without a price tag helps me to work a full time job, provide for my family and attend classes at the same time. Many bible schools in my area are very expensive. Having a free christian leadership education in ministry truly assists me in the training I need to move forward in the will of God.” – Ricky Welch, student of CLI
Greetings to all my CLI colleagues, I am Ricky Welch. I was born in a small town in North Mississippi in the early 1980’s. My wife and I now reside in the state of Missouri with our two children ages seven and one. We have been married since November 2003.
Living in America is a blessing in many ways, but we do have our challenges. We have freedom laws which allows freedom of speech to publicly reverence Christ. One of the challenges is the many diverse religious beliefs that are practiced in our country. Many people are confused, and are reluctant to believe in the true gospel that Christ proclaimed.
I have always felt the presence of God, even as a child. My older sister and I were taught at a young age to believe and fear God and the power that He has. It was in 1998, the middle of my teen years, when I began to have a true relationship with Christ. My uncle who also became my mentor and pastor led me to understand the importance of having a relationship with the Lord. He also taught me the importance of accountability, and my actions as a born again christian.
I am a youth leader and desire to be a church planter in due season. My most important desire is to plant a church in my current city. I also have a vision of eventually planting a church in my hometown in the state of Mississippi and spreading it into a national ministry. We desire to boldly profound the gospel of Christ to the lost and broken souls.
I began to notice the special call on my life when I was asked to lead prayer at my senior high school awards ceremony back in 2001. Many teachers that had taught me in previous years were pleased to see the change in my life since receiving Christ. Some even asked me if I was considering ministry after graduation.
I am supported by my family 100% in my enrollment with CLI’s christian leadership education program. They have encouraged me to move forward in receiving christian leadership education. My wife and children play a major role in my ministry. Leading a family is very much similar to leading the people of God. I look to them for positive or negative feedback as they look to me for leadership and guidance. My desire is to make sure that each one of their needs are met both spiritually and naturally. I intend to use many valuable life lessons that I have learned to eventually birth our ministry vision.
I ask that my professors, classmates and other believers in Christ pray that I will fully accept the will of God in my life. I also desire prayer for continuing to allow God to be first and foremost in my every day walk. May God graciously bless each and every one of you!
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“I know that God has led me to CLI’s ministry classes to increase my understanding and to also mentor one of our members who is participating in the online ministry classes. I believe God will use the ministry classes at CLI to help me grow in knowledge and wisdom, and to be better equipped for the calling He has on my life. I believe God has opened up my schedule and provided this free learning tool, at this specific time in my life and I am very grateful to Him and to CLI, for this opportunity. I loved going through the Christian Basics Class and look forward to taking the advanced ministry classes as well.” – Carol Mora, student of CLI
My name is Carol Mora and I live in Zephyrhills, Florida. I currently pastor a church alongside my husband. It is my pleasure to share with you, who I am and what Jesus Christ has done in my life, and what He continues to do. I was born in Georgia, then moved to California and lived there till the age of nine, when we moved overseas to the Marshall Islands. It was there that I met Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, at the age of twelve. I was on fire for the Lord at a very young age and attended adult Bible studies and prayer meetings. I loved the Lord and was not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. At the age of fifteen however, I allowed compromise to come in, which altered the direction of my life for the next thirteen years.
During that time I got married and had two wonderful children. When my son was seven and my daughter was two, someone invited him to be in the Christmas play at their church. This was a turning point in my life. I went back to my Lord and Savior, and have not strayed from His side since. My life was radically changed at that point, as my values and desires changed towards the Lord. Unfortunately, my husband who was not a believer, left after sixteen years of marriage, and I became a single mom with two children.
During the next thirteen years I grew stronger in the Lord and in the power of His Might. I learned to trust Him and to allow Him to direct my paths. He led me to Bible school for one year while I worked full time in childcare. Then the Lord called me to work for my pastors in their business. I learned a lot from the Lord at that time, and was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel through the church where I attended. Then once again a BIG changed occurred in my life, after five years of employment I was let go from my job. I did not understand why this was happening to me. I was without a job, without a church to go to, and my friends were told not to speak to me. So, I pressed into the Lord. As I look back now, I know it was God closing one door in my life to open up another.
I spent the next nine months allowing God to strengthen me. During the years I was single, I had prayed and believed that God had a godly man for me whom I could minister with. In September of 2008, I took three days off work to be with the Lord and released all of my hurts from the past. I picked up an old broken shell and told the Lord that this is what I felt my life was like, but I would cast it into the sea and start anew with His help. Five days later my life changed forever! I walked into Panera Bread and met my husband whom God had prepared for me, for such a time as this.
He was a pastor at that time and had just been offered a church building to start a new ministry. We knew very quickly that God had put us together and we were married two months later. At our wedding the first thing we chose to do after being pronounced husband and wife was to pray for people as they came forward. We knew God had called us to minister together. Six years later, my husband and I are still pastors of a church in Zephyrhills, FL. We had a thrift store for most of that time but recently had to close it and move the church to a temporary location.
The mandate that God has given us is to worship, restore lives, and win souls. We desire to continue to grow in the Lord and in the calling that He has upon our lives. In the last few years God put a burden for people’s physical needs on our hearts, so we began Hands Helping Hands, which provides a free lunch once a week and a voucher to get free clothes. This is temporarily on hold while we look for a new building. We would ask you to keep this in your prayers and also that God would continue to give direction and provision for our lives and ministry.
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