Free Life Skills Class – Become a Stronger and Healthier You
by Professor: Dr. David Feddes
You are part of God’s special operations. Your mission is to reclaim the world for Christ. You have been saved and called to help. This class is about helping you to become a stronger and healthier you. This free life skills class is perfect for living a more confident and healthy life!
This free life skills class gives you Biblical insights and practical knowledge that make you stronger for your mission. Each topic is applied to your spiritual, physical, financial, intellectual, emotional, relational, and vocational dimensions of life.
Dr. David Feddes will bring you through the crucial areas of total fitness for you to thrive in leading others.
You will Learn and Grow in this free life skills class
- Total fitness: hear God’s call to embrace practical wisdom and discipline for strengthening the whole person.
- Spiritual fitness: draw near to God and stand stronger against Satan through spiritual disciplines.
- Physical fitness: know why the body matters to God, improve bodily health, and use body language well.
- Financial fitness: earn a good living, escape debt, build wealth, honor God and bless others with money.
- Intellectual fitness: build healthy curiosity, sharp thinking, lifelong study, and courage to stand for truth,
- Emotional fitness: learn to face feelings honestly and discover God working through emotions.
- Relational fitness: heal from past relational wrongs and wounds, and interact with others in a wise and godly manner
- Vocational fitness: pursue God’s calling for job, career, and other tasks.
You are welcome to take this free life skills Class supported by generous vision partners. These vision partners include blessed Christian Leaders Institute Graduates, Kingdom-minded Christians and Foundations, and others.
Begin your free life skills course now! You will begin by taking a Getting Started Orientation class. Then you are encouraged to enroll in the Christian Leaders Connection Class which helps you get situated at Christian Leaders Institute. You are also free to immediately take this Total Fitness class by Dr. David Feddes.
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New Beginning
CLI Graduate, Will Williams went from a life of pain into a new beginning in Christ. He now is eagerly serving God in everything.
My name is Will Williams; I am 40 years old and married to one of the most beautiful and wonderful women God created. I have three children Morgan, Destinee, and Dylan. We live in the USA, and we are proud Texans! The struggle of living in a “Christian” country where everybody is “Christian” is if you talk about Jesus Christ or anything to do with the Word of God, you get the answer “This is not Sunday” or “Oh, I grew up in church”. So to evangelize and minister in the “Bible belt” is very hard and overrun with watered down Christianity.
Will and his wife both have come from a background with hurt and pain from divorce. Through God they have a new beginning and new perspective on their painful past.
We are a blended family, which means we have been divorced. I had Morgan with my ex-wife and she had her children with her ex-husband. This was all before God redeemed us. This is something that will be significant later on in my conversion.
Neither my wife nor I grew up in a “Christian” home. We both lived, as we wanted to and did what we wanted to. We met at work, I drove a truck and she did payroll in the office. Divorce was common for both of us since both of our parents were divorced as well. I went through several relationships and live in girlfriends. She dated and had some live in boyfriends. We started to date and started having sex and then we moved in together.. You see the pattern of sin that I followed. We lived together for a year and decided to get married. After a year of marriage and many nights out at the bar, we started fighting. We would go out to the nightclub every other weekend when we did not have the kids. We not only were fighting we yelled at the kids and cussed at them like sailors. We got drunk and partied and got drunk and partied. The kids and I were not getting along at all. I thought something was wrong with those kids. I did not see my sin; all I saw was “me”.
Will and his family were sadly lost without hope, but God opened up an opportunity to have a new beginning in Christ.
She (my wife) got an appointment with a woman that was a Christian and her husband pastored a church. Angela and I were not seeking out a Christian counselor at all. I could care less who she got, but God was doing something big and none of us had any idea what was about to happen. She was taking the kids to her, and it had been about 2 weeks. Angela asked me again to come and sit in with them. I said, “Ok, I will come and sit in there, but I do not need any help.” PRIDE! I went and it was ok; she talked about God and different things, and I just shrugged it off. Angela and I thought we knew God and who He is; I had my beliefs and she had hers (Religious Pluralism). She grew up Catholic (did not practice), but stopped going when she moved in with her boyfriend in high school. We were “good with God”… well with our gods we made up in our minds. The counselor asked us to come to church with her. She was very kind and loving and something was different about her. We talked about it, and we decided if it seemed weird we would be gone!! We sat in the back row just in case. We went and the pastor was funny and it was not too bad at all.
One Sunday, Will and his wife truly were able to start their new beginning with God’s grace.
We went on a Sunday and had been going for about two weeks when the pastor started talking about the good news. I asked Angela,” What is the good news.” She said, “Are we getting out early or something?” We listened, and he gave the Gospel! I knew right then and there that I was a sinner in need of a Savior!! I saw with new eyes and listened with new ears! I was broken for my sins, and I knew what I had done to Jesus Christ! It was as if I hammered the nails into His hands myself!! I was the one who mocked Him and spat on Him!! I did not go up to an alter; I fell in my seat and repented of my sins at that moment! I received Jesus as my Lord and Savior! He paid for me and saved me from my sins and hell! I looked over to my wife, and I saw her crying. It was not until the ride home that I asked her why she was crying. She told me she had given her life to Christ! I told her,” ME TOO!” Our life transformed from that day until now. It has been seven years, and we have truly been made into a new creation!
The day we got saved I found myself seeking and studying God’s Word. Everywhere we went I told people my testimony that has the Gospel in it. I believe I can identify with being called as an Evangelist and a church planter. I currently lead a life group with our church, and we help with feeding and ministering to the homeless. I found myself doing prison ministry. The young man that I disciple just started his 30-year sentence.
CLI has given Will more knowledge and understanding in his new beginning with God.
Having this scholarship is everything; I cannot afford any paid seminary or Bible College right now. When I found CLI, I could not believe the training I could receive from a “free” Bible Institute! We are a one-income family, so the freedom that CLI gives me is outstanding! I do desire to graduate from CLI with a Diploma of Divinity. I would love to put that Diploma to use in the Mission Field planting churches.
My prayer is that I will listen to the Holy Spirit when He tells me no, yes, or wait. I pray for humility and strength in Him. I pray that I can use this time with CLI to grow and gain insight in ministry.
Influential Church Planter
CLI Graduate, William Dayton, has President Henry Reyenga excited about his work in ministry. William is always witnessing for God, and he also is an influential church planter starting a new church in Philips, Wisconsin. Philips is a town that William describes as a mini Seattle because there are many different religions and its liberal.
William wasn’t always as on fire for the Lord as he is now. He grew up in a Jewish family. Where he learned how to argue that Jesus isn’t the Messiah.
I came from a Jewish family; they’re not pleased. My wife was a Baptist, so they (my parents) already were upset with me to begin with. I used to have fun with Christians talking them out of believing that Christ was the Messiah. As a Jew, you get pounded on how Jesus isn’t the Messiah. My grandfather was a Jewish priest. I became a Christian in 2005. The very first strike was my Hebrew was great my Greek was shaky. A priest asked me when Jesus was on the water what did he say to his disciples because my argument at the time was God never made a claim to divinity. I said Christ said to his disciples “don’t worry I’m here”. That’s where you’re wrong the priest told me, the original Greek says “Do not fear I am,” which is a claim to divinity. It was the first time I had been shut down, and I started to study more into my Bible. Isaiah 53 was the first strike, and Psalm 22 was the second.
William now is an influential church planter who is determined to bring back those he converted to Judaism. He also witnesses to everyone he meets who will listen to how Jesus is the Messiah.
After I had become a Christian, I thought, “My God, My God, why have I forsaken you?” After I realized the mistake I had made I was trying to go back and re-win everybody for Christ. I started to have Bible studies on why I was wrong. I started helping people come back to God all over the place.
William is involved in many ministries; one is he picks up those people from the bars that are too intoxicated to drive. He witnesses about God as he takes them home. William took the Church Planter class at CLI and has faithfully done all the things the class suggested.
Every time you said to do something in the church planting class I went out and did it. I started in living rooms. I would borrow other churches and sit in basements if I could. I would pick people up from bars.
William being an influential church planter is planting a church called Lakeview. Lakeview hasn’t even started yet but has already more people than space in the church.
There are 11 churches here in Philips. I have the largest parking lot of the churches and the only Saturday night service, as well as Sunday. We’ve already outgrown my church, and we haven’t even had the first service.
CLI has given William the tools and knowledge to be an even more influential church planter as he witnesses for Christ in Philips, Wisconsin.
My name is Christopher (Chris) Steggles, and I live with my wife Sue in Eastleigh, which is a town close to the City of Southampton in the UK. We have been married for 34 years and have three daughters now all living away from home. Professionally I am a retired Information Technology Consultant, a field I went into in 1968.
I had been loosely connected with the Church since I was a child I went to Sunday School and maintained some connections over the years. But I became a Christian in 1970 in the Open Brethren. They gave a solid grounding in Scripture, and I was baptised in 1971. I had some problems with alcohol in the years 1972-1975 but came back to a relationship with Jesus and was an active member of one of the Restoration Churches in London. But my problems with alcohol were not quite over – and my first marriage came apart in 1981. God’s Grace cannot be measured – despite all my problems, He brought Sue and me together, and I started to resolve my alcohol problem. It took some time – and with active participation in both Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and the Church I finally achieved a measure of sobriety.
With 23 years of sobriety, I have now been very active in AA over the past nine years. I have a clear vision that the level of fellowship achieved in AA is what we so desperately need in the Church. Philip Yancey talks about this in his books – he refers to the Midnight Church as demonstrating the deep commitment of AA members to one another.
I have shared this vision with two of our pastors – I am not sure they fully understand it, but I have their support, and my senior pastor has arranged a suitable mentor for me.
I believe that God has called me to preach the message of real commitment to both Jesus and each other within the Church. A meeting on Sunday and a mid-week home group that does not meet every week are a mere shadow of what I believe God is calling me to. Real revival depends not only on prayer but on Christians living out the Gospel by really demonstrating that they love one another.
For this I do need some formal Bible College training – it’s a missing area for myself, and it will show commitment to my church leadership team. Why CLI? I am retired on a modest pension, and UK Bible College fees are simply unaffordable.
In terms of prayer, please ask God to show clearly to me the path He wants me to take. Step 11 of the AA program states that I should seek through prayer and meditation to improve my conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His will for me and the power to carry that out. That’s what I need!