Ministering to Young Women
Ministering to young women is needed now more than ever! Who will do this mission? Kristin Perry is called to do this. Read her story and sign up for free ministry training.
My name is Kristin Perry and I live in the United States. I was born in 1993 to two loving parents. My mom and dad were Christians, but due to time restraints and the struggle of raising a family on a single income, we never attended church regularly. Growing up I was sheltered and was told what was right and what was wrong.
As I began getting older, I also began to rebel against my parents. I ended up pregnant at the age of 16. Luckily, my mother helped me raise my disabled son. Being naive, I continued to go down the same rebellious path, seeking worldly desires. I was on a path to destruction. This is when I began to see God working in my life.
I was in a really bad car accident and I saw the Lord telling me to get my life right. I had a son with autism who needed me. When I turned to God and turned my back on the harmful temptations of the world, my son started to heal and my life got significantly better. It was like I was seeing the world through another set of eyes.
His grace and mercy began shining on my life. It took a couple of years of me wandering off my path before I really understood what He wanted to do with my life. He showed me in many ways that He wants me to minister to young women and use my life as a testimony. I feel that He wants me to show women that they are so precious in His eyes and that they’re worth so much more than what they think.
My mission is to show women through God’s Word that as long as we follow Him, He will give us all the love we need. I’m both happy and blessed that I found Christian Leaders Institute. They’re equipping me with the knowledge I need to minister to these women in need. I hope to graduate through CLI and start a women’s ministry very soon. I want God’s light to shine through! Thank you Christian Leaders Institute for providing the resources us disciples need at no cost! You have truly been a blessing in my life, and I hope I can spread that blessing to others!
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My name is Samuel L Sprewer II, a 35 year father of five and engaged to a wonderful woman, residing in Chicago but originally from Milwaukee. The city of Chicago is truly suffering right now from the violence that plagues the city daily and is in dire need of a spiritually reawakening and a fresh wind from the Holy Spirit.
My spiritual journey began when I was very young when my grandmother use to take me church. I grew up in a baptist church where I was introduced to some foundation teaching but never really having the understanding of what salvation was or the work that Christ did on the cross. I can recall around when I was thirteen years old that my pastor approached me and told me I think it’s about time you become a member of the church. So I joined the church and was baptized. This was just the beginning of my spiritually journey and I just didn’t know it. It wasn’t until I was twenty years old and I attended a bible study with my brother that I truly felt the presence of God. It was at this time that God spoke to me and instructed me to leave the church I had been attending and begin attending my brother’s church.
It was there that I received the spiritual foundation that I had been lacking. In the year of 2002 I received the call from God to preach the gospel. My first sermon was “What Profited a Man to Gain the Whole and Lose his Soul.” Overly zealous and still young in my calling, I wanted to be the “popular preacher” that everyone received. But that was the plan God had for me. The word that God put in my mouth was the word that challenged a person where they were at with their walk with God. I then went on to get ordained as an Elder. I’ve held the positions of Youth Pastor, Assistant Pastor, and Co-Pastor. I soon found myself falling away from the faith because I had no real relationship with God anymore. I got divorced in 2014 and found myself spiraling out of control.
Although I keep God in the back of my mind, the only thing that mattered now was appeasing my flesh and fulfilling my lustful desires. Just recently, I fell under the mighty hand of God where I found myself at death’s door. I had a sever asthma attack and found myself under heavy sedation and on a breathing machine with my life hanging in the balance. No one knew whether or not if I was going to live or die. But the people constantly prayed for me. It was on a Monday, and my breathing tube became clogged, I woke up out of my sedation because I could not breath. Had the doctors waited until Tuesday when the tube was suppose to come out, I don’t believe I’ll be here today. I ended up extubating myself. While in the hospital God spoke to me and said, ” If you continue down the path you are on you’re going to die.” It was at this moment that I choose life and rededicated myself back to God.
My ministry dream is to have a nation wide revival, calling those that are lost and those who left God to turn back to Him. This nation that I currently stay in, the United States of America, is a godless nation with no reverence for a holy God and every damnable thing is accepted as right. I believe God called me to be an end time prophet to warn the people of the impeding doom that the nation is facing if they don’t turn their faces back to God.
A scholarship at CLI will help me in pursuit to have a rooted foundation so I can as it is stated in II Timothy 2:15- Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
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Christian Leaders Institute (CLI) helps you be prepared to make disciples of all nations. CLI offers free classes including over 120 hours of instruction. Christian Leaders from all over the world have enrolled.
Here is Evelyn’s story.
My name is Evelyn. I was born and raised in southwest Arizona, USA. Having grown up on the border between Mexico and southern California along the lower Colorado River, I’ve seen poverty (both physical and spiritual) that perhaps, not many Americans are familiar with. Weekend trips to Mexico (I have family there) I was aware of the poverty in my familial homeland. There are many types of ministries already hard at work, but the greatest need here is for sound doctrine and Christian unity. I have unfortunately seen first hand, how false teachings have crept into churches and lead truth seeking Christians astray from sound Biblical teachings. I’m not sure how much Christian disunity affects other parts of the US, but where I live, there’s much disunity within the Church, sometimes even inside the same congregations. This is extremely heart-breaking that we as bearers of the Good News should fight over control of buildings and people when Christ has called us to go and make disciples, spread His love and the message of salvation. This is the place I grew up in and the church I have known my whole life.
I was born into a Christian home, in a first generation American born, Mexican family. My mom took the time to carefully teach my brothers and I the Bible. I grew up going to church twice, sometimes three times a week. But I did not become saved until I was 15. During my mid-teens, my family struggled to find a church that preached sound doctrine and who was more concerned about spiritual needs than carnal events. For almost three years we did not attend church at all. I did not truly understand the walk of a true follower of Christ until I was 18, that’s when I started to get serious about my relationship with the Lord and to devote time to Bible study. Ever since my hunger for the Word has grown and grown. I love studying the Scriptures, Jewish and Church history, and theology. Two years ago, I felt my calling into ministry and started a young women’s small group. I now teach my youth’s Sunday School class and am currently working to start missions events with the youth to Mexico. I also enjoy writing on my Christian blog to bring sound Biblical articles and spiritual encouragement to those who share my hunger for daily bread. By profession, I am a medical assistant. Though I love what I do; I feel called by my Father into ministry.
My ministry dream is to continue boldly proclaiming God’s Word without watering down the Gospel, to promote Christian unity with love and grace. I enjoyed working closely with teens and had this dream of becoming a youth pastor in the future after furthering my ministry training and education. However, over the past year, my love for the Jewish people has grown stronger and stronger. I want nothing more than to serve the Chosen People of Yahweh by bringing to them the message of Salvation. I know that ministering to the Jewish people is not always easy but the love my Father has planted in my heart for them is too strong that I can simply not do anything about it.
My local church has been supportive by blessing me with the opportunity to work closely with the youth. I’m a young person myself, 24 years old, unmarried, so the fact that they have given me these opportunities is amazing and I, am very grateful. My family, especially my mom, has always been supportive of all my endeavors. The mere fact that my family is very graceful and patient with my dreams and pursuits is extremely helpful. I appreciate all the prayers and love. I am thankful to Abba Father that He has blessed me with supportive family and friends.
With a scholarship from Christian Leaders Institute, I will get the training and the Bible education I need to fulfill God’s purpose for my life to take His Word to the world. I had planned to enroll in a Bible Institute or college before finding CLI, but without the finances, my ministry dreams seemed farther in the future but with the opportunity of free Biblical courses I can start sooner than expected! I thank God for CLI who blesses the lives of many people and further God’s kingdom. Thank you CLI and may God continue to bless you in blessing the lives of many worldwide!