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Christians Seek Out Ministry Schooling Like CLI
Why receive your ministry schooling with Christian Leaders Institute? It’s free and all courses can be taken online.
How “free” works through our ministry schooling is provided by a donation system. If you can give, we greatly appreciate you funding our purpose to provide the ability for our ministry schooling to be free. Donations cover many costs to keep us up and running. It is considered to be of the same model used with church; however, at church it is called tithing. Any amount you donate is the amount you feel God placing on your heart. We have no minimum donation request. Whether you make a donation or not, you still receive 100% of our ministry training.
Here at CLI, we also have set up a system on a website where you can take all of your classes online. This takes out the issue of having to quit your current job and having to relocate many miles from home for seminary. All study materials are included with each class, again kept free for our students. Each lesson consists of watching videos and reading the study material to prepare yourself for a quiz. So even time given to complete each class depends really upon how much time you spend getting through our lessons. Each course is put together with the compassion of Godly men who received their ministry education through seminaries. So truly what you are receiving is of high quality value that is seen in seminary courses.
Ministry Schooling For The Ones God Never Gave Up On
I am Evelyn from Warwick, RI. Born in Guayama, Puerto Rico and raised all my life in the United States of America. I am a proud mother of two sons and now a newly grandmother to ‘Ava’. Let me tell you about how my walk with God changed not only my life, but how my darkness became a great awakening by the grace of the Lord’s candlelight. For years, I have been on and off in various religions that left me wanting to be left alone, but not so far away from the Lord. Yes, I confess that every sin I made always left me sleepless at night because deep down in the corner of my heart rendered in a brilliant extraordinary view. I felt the Lord speak to me. After so many years of heartache, confusion, and bitter sweet moments in my life, I decided to get on a plane and take with me my depression, a companion that did not allow me to see clearly my given right to righteousness and peace of mind. Arriving at the Island, I noticed how bright the sky was. How every person I came upon always had the Lord’s name vivid-filled with blessings. And I kept feeling this tug in my heart, but I could not fully understand what it was that I had to do in order to find my place in life and feel free from my sin. One morning, I went to the local bakery for fresh baked bread and as I took that loaf back up the most amazing mountain, I realized the wrapping of the bread had a verse from the bible. When I read the verse, it said as follows:
Jeremiah 29:11, “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Stunned to see these words, I opened the door to the deck and looked up into the sky and there my dear friends, I knew that the Lord loves me just how I am. After all the times I hid in my ignorance for salvation God never gave up on me. This happened this year of 2014 and since then I have become a passionate born again Christian. As the months have gone by, I have not and will not cease to educate myself in the Lord’s Word. I have this ministry dream to support others along their walk with the Lord. I want to encourage others to learn about Jesus and know him to the fullest. I feel like a soldier of God and pray that as His servant, the days to come that I can keep others focused in the Lord’s name. Let us never fall away from His grace, my brothers and sisters. For we need each other to stay constant in His grace. What has prompt me into ministry more than anything is that I know that The End is to come. And with it, many Christians will be persecuted for loving the Lord. I must prepare with the Lord’s armor and shield to stand tall and help others along the way. May the Lord give me this strength and wisdom when the time comes.
To receive my ministry schooling through Christian Leaders Institute is very important for me. I pray to the Lord that it educates me to teach others to the very end of my last breath. For we really have no time to lose or to waste. We must learn all that we can before it is too late to even dare carry a bible on hand. We must memorize verses, we must be careful to place the Lord’s Word correctly upon others. We must build a strong heart and mind to carry out our purpose in the name of the Lord. Praise be to God! My dearest brothers and sisters please pray for me that I may have the will of John the Baptist who new his mission in life. He clearly understood that he had been set apart by God for a purpose. Pray for me that I may have the strong ever lasting faith of Job blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. Pray for me that I am strong like King David. He was single mindlessly committed to God, and although he was guilty of some of the most serious sins recorded in the Old Testament, I know that in this world and today, I am not perfect but I am loved by the true King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Just to know this, my heart pounds and I cry of joy!! Amen.
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Being A Minister In Today’s Church
Regardless of age, we can speak up for the Lord and speak out to others for God. Our Father does not see us by our physical age, but by our spiritual maturity. For the love of Jesus, we minister to others of His plan called Salvation. In today’s church, we must be leaders of love to encourage the congregation to be of agape. Let us love. Because it is here in God’s love where a sinner is convicted by His Spirit to turn away from sin. It is in God’s love where walls fall down like the walls of Jericho. But God needs His leaders of love to preach the Good News so one may know the truth of His abundant grace and mercy.
Let us all be found as leaders of love in the church, young or old, to bring home the lost and the broken. Here is the testimony from a CLI student who is finding himself at 18 years old desiring to minister. There’s nothing else he’d rather be doing with his life. There’s nowhere else he’d rather be.
Visions To Be A Minister For The Love Of Jesus
I am Richard Hill. I am 18 years old, and I love Jesus with all of my heart. I live in the United States of America. There are no real threats or danger involved in ministry here. Churches are, however, becoming seen as less and less important in society. The culture here is moving more and more towards either atheism or new exotic religions that are constantly popping up like weeds. A feeling of competition and a need to stand out are probably the biggest challenges I’ve seen in ministry here. I think my work will mostly fit that of a pastor. I want to help a lot of people in the community. A pastor is best suited to this task, as a pastor can preach to many people, yet still deal with one on one problems as well.
When I was five (or at least I’m pretty sure I was five) I accepted Christ at a Christian children’s gathering of some sort. It’s been a while since I was five so I don’t remember exactly. It wasn’t very spectacular, and there weren’t any life changing revelations. I just knew I believed in Jesus, and that was good enough.
I have two main ministry goals. I want to save souls and I want to fix the damage society has done to the church community in America. Back at the time of the first church, Christians were much closer to each other. They acted much more like family. Christians today usually claim to be this way, but most don’t act like it. Many will give to charity, yet curse someone who asks for help outright. I want to fix this, because it deters many from accepting Christ, and we would simply not survive like this if any major form of persecution came to this country.
I chose to be a minister because of a series of bizarre things that happened in my life. God, out of the blue, started giving me dreams about the future. I still have them regularly. God shows me things that will happen in dreams, and they come about in waking life as shown in the dream. It has been everything from trivial aspects of daily life, to the timing of the death of my Christian youth group teacher. God also began to allow me to see angels. They seldom talk or interact with me in anyway, but God sometimes allows me to see them going about their business. I figured that if God is showing me these things, he must have a calling for me. After praying for understanding, he showed me I needed to go into ministry, as I am preparing for now.
My local church has given me support through encouragement in my wanting to be a minister; as well as, giving me some opportunities to help out with things once in a while. I have had opportunities to help out some individual people with problems. One person had a porn addiction, and I was able to use the Bible to help him quit. Another person had a fascination with witchcraft and he found the Bible’s teachings repulsive. I was able to help him with those issues, and he’s been improving in countless other ways as well. My family has been very supportive of me. They all think that this is great. My dad has been very helpful especially by talking with the church to help me get the opportunities I mentioned.
I am grateful for CLI because I want training to be a minister. To put it bluntly, I don’t want to screw up things when I minister to people. I want the knowledge and understanding so that I can do a good job. I also have noticed that many people expect a certain level of education to take you seriously in ministry. The Bible never mentions degrees you need to have to minster to people, but being educated will make me appear more credible. I also can’t afford a traditional college education, so without this school, I have no other options. Pray for me in my ministry that I will have the financial resources to achieve my goals.
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Online Training For Ministry In Cameroon Better For Most
Christianity is flourishing in Cameroon and many have accepted God’s call to pastor churches, despite a lack of training and often being new believers themselves. There are the challenges of not having the financial resources for most to receive ministry training, being able to relocate many miles from home, and even the social challenges with friends and family. Where can one turn in such a situation?
With Christian Leaders Institute, not only can you find yourself receiving online training for ministry, it is also absolutely free to those who enroll. This benefits all of our students as they can keep working at their current job, not relocate, or stress over financial burdens going to school can place on adults. All CLI requires is your passion and dedication to achieve your God-given call.
Read the incredible story of one CLI student living in Cameroon.
Online Training For Ordination Through CLI Found In Cameroon
I was born in 1974 in Bali of the Northwest region of Cameroon in a large polygamous family. I soon left my parents at the age of 6 to live with my uncle in Yaoundé, the city capital of Cameroon. Things did not go well as I lost my father a year later. The love and care was not the same and I became a difficult child. My mother had six children (4 girls and 2 boys). After completing my high school, I opted for the professional training than the university academic studies. With the hope of assisting my mother’s poor health as a nurse, she passed away few months to my graduation. Two years later, my two sisters passed away. With this entire emotional and psychological trauma in my life, I was blessed with Elodie Nana as a perfect match and we became married in 2004. Since 2005, we became parents to four kids with a set of twin boys inclusive: Atsalia, Donald, Mac and Elfrida. Currently I live in Cameroon and the land is open to the gospel. The two main official religions are Christianity and Muslims and each tries to profess their faith alongside, hence we give God the glory for the peace we are enjoying. All churches are requested to have government authorization before they open their doors, though it is difficult this days to have one, however many new ministries do this by affiliating or working under the coverage of existing Christian movements.
Facing all manners of academic, family, and social challenges, I began to be troubled about my existence, purpose, and if I could ever smile in the future. I moved guardians to live with a step brother. Two of my classmates, sons of pastors of Pentecostal churches, preached to me. After resistance, I gave my life to Jesus Christ. Jesus redeemed me on that blessed Sunday on January 6, 1991. I received a water baptism years later and the Holy Spirit baptism in 1998. These periods were equally marked with a lot of persecution. The difficulties and persecution gave me no chance to look behind, but rather move forward to Jesus Christ. With family pressure to stop sponsoring my education if I did not stop the ‘born again’ issue, I was groomed through a school bible club. Within the early years of conversion my sadness, loneliness, bitterness and rough character gradually ebbed away as I felt joy and the warmth of God’s love. I realized that a collaborative work is essential in humility and respect of others. Secondly it is the outcome of the work that matters for God’s glory, continually doing it by his grace and not the title we have.
In my three years of nursing training, I was a member of an interdenominational Christian youth movement called Cameroon Youths for Jesus. Two years later, I was the branch coordinator in Yaoundé from 2000 to 2003. I became active in my church (Full Gospel Mission) after marriage in 2004. With the Lord’s training within the Youth movement and with the college of leaders and pastors, I was ordained as an elder with the Full Gospel Mission Cameroon in 2005. I have been coordinating the youths, the marriage committee, and assisting in translation, any effective Christian work must be done in English and translated to French or vice versa. From my Christian health position as a nurse, church elder, writing skills, counseling, interpretations and teaching skills I like to empower youths to grow in their Christian faith with vision and a Christ-liked passion service; highlighting for professional integrity in the hospital, I am also burdened to listen to people, counsel and helping people to grow to know God more. The ordination will help to consolidated and embody my Christ given purpose.
Seven of my ten years of nursing practice was in the ICU where God enabled me to understand the essence of my life. There is a marked discrepancy between theory and practice by the health personnel. Morals have dropped, though there are traces of exceptions. Patients are desperate and many closed up during health care delivery. God’s grace for counseling became recognized upon my life when I was called to assist in counseling with difficult and non-compliant patients. I orientated this counseling service by introducing the good news of the Gospel to almost all patients. With time, my colleagues confided in me and God’s grace was manifest as some opened up to Jesus and others did not. I had been active in church all these years, stressing on sanctification and holiness, but soon realized I was wanting. Though I had been translating for the long and trained in leadership with the international leadership institute, I felt I was floating. I could not sustain or explain some biblical notions before professional challenges. The Christian gathering limited to some social, technological, secular realities etc. all of which thrilled my quest for a bible training program though the hindrance was finances. I had been stressing on professional integrity during seminars organized by the bible club of the hospital. Teaching biblical methods of prevention on HIV/AIDS and STI’s at school clubs during the youth week in some private schools in Yaoundé. A young boy came to the hospital of recent to pray for a patient and the doctor doubted his title of a pastor and asked for a pastor’s badge permitting to distinguish him from quacks. Our young pastor had no badge and was refused from entering the ward. To authenticate my training, and sustain the ministry work through my foundation with Cameroon’s bureaucratic system some doors (health facilities or church organizations) will only open before me when I present an ordination certificate.
Once I had the CLI online training scholarship, it was a dream come true. The CLI courses have helped to stabilize my faith in both spiritual and the secular sphere. It is my desire to continually share this great opportunity with all. Especially the youths who are victims of false prosperity preachers. Though there is limited feedback during the online training, I have found my needs met and also the openness and passion Henry and David has in seeing students equipped and blessed with biblical knowledge. I quote them because I wrote on several occasions asking for permission to use extracts of their materials for my book and they were very willing and encouraging. As earlier said, the courses answer abstract to life secular and spiritual realities. It has shaped my personality and it has been answering my potential and actual challenges in church and Christian services. Cameroon, though poor and aspiring to be an emerging nation, is very bureaucratic. To palliate this to my wife, I set up an organization called “The Lamp Foundation,” which is here to enable us to reach health facilities beyond the boundaries of my hospital and carry out Christian programs easily. While I was completing my CLI online training courses by the mercies and grace of Jesus Christ, I published my first Christian literature called “The Healing hands of the potter; doctor’s treat, nurses give care but Jesus heals.” The materials from CLI are a compendium for my book, seminars, and ministry. I am passionate to see the youth grow and serve Jesus Christ with a true meaning in life escaping the vile pleasures of life. I am passionate to see adults take on a meaningful course in life and not become victims of ignorance. I am available and open, yearning to network, collaborate with leaders or organizations of like vision and mission, giving true meaning to lives through Jesus Christ for his glory. My local church and senior pastor is very supportive in my pursuit of ministry. They allow us to present to the church about my ministry dream and they are praying for me. I have called my pastor for spiritual assistance in the hospital, as well as being programmed to minister in church after which remarks are made.
I am very grateful to God for this free education that CLI has offered me. Being a major bread winner for my home, but with little salary, recognized bible schools in Cameroon are campus based and expensive and without the means of having an off duty permission for training even if that was possible. I have no justification to make with the exception that I very indebted for this wonderful opportunity given me. This made it possible to work and carry on my online training with ease. The online training through CLI is really bible based and focused, hence different from other professional training and online training that allows for unnecessary stuff. Please pray that the desire God has placed in our heart will grow and that in our future ministry, we will always seek to glorify our heavenly Father, remain humble, consecrated, obey the whole bible truth, and that we will not seek our own interest. Also pray that we will be loyal to the knowledge, training materials, and vision of CLI. Also pray for prompt networking, open doors for further training, grace for partnership, and success in ministries.
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