Christian Leaders Institute’s student Lawrence Yeanay enrolled to Bring Revival To Liberia by gaining a formal ministry education 100% free of cost. Here is his story…
Bring Revival To Liberia – Lawrence’s Story
My name is Lawrence S. Yeanay; I am from Liberia, Nimba County, Ganta city. I was born unto Mr. Nya Yeanay and Ma yah Flymo on July 2, 1986. I live in Karnplay with My wife Ruth Yeanay and two Girls Children. I graduated from high school in 2006. Later in 2007 I got born again through the influence of one Apostle Philip B. Martin. With out any help and founds to forward my education, I moved to live with the Apostle and his family in their home so as to have more time to focus on the things of God and to Learn more about the Bible. By the grace of God this year may 2015, I was browsing the Internet I God directed me to the web site of the school to enable me get more training for the work of the ministries. 1. My ministry Goal is to help bring revival in my country since we came from a 14 years of war, and most of our citizens are not spiritually transform. 2. It is very easy to do ministry in our Country since according to our history we were founded on a Christian principal and further more, we have majority calling on the Name of Jesus than Mohammed.
Allen Biddix’s ministry calling is in evangelism and pastoring, and after serving a sentence in prison himself, he felt called to start Pastoring To Prisoners. He enrolled at Christian Leaders Institute to fulfill his calling, and begin his ministry journey! Here is his story…
Pastoring To Prisoners – Allen’s Story
My name is Allen Biddix, and I currently live in South Carolina (USA). I first hear of the Lord while at the fair in 1998. A minister walked me through the sinner’s prayer, but at the age of 10 I didn’t understand what it meant. It wasn’t until I was 13 that I started attending church. During those days, I was mainly going to church to socialize with people my age. I was baptized Easter 2002 at the age of 14. At the age of 15, I was sent to a group home where I spent the next two and a half years of my life. While staying in the group home I began to have a feeling that I was being called by the Lord, so I began to study the Bible.
When I was 18, I was sent to prison due to my idiotic choices. While in prison the Lord showed me my calling. So I began to study more and this time the Lord began to open doors for me to minister to other prisoners. I spent sixteen and a half months locked up before I was released on probation for three years. Not long after my release I was locked up for two and a half years due to a violation of probation. This was when the Lord revealed the ministry He has called me to.
I mostly identify myself as both an evangelist and a pastor. I say, and evangelist because, in my younger years, I am called to minister to anyone or any church who wants to hear the Truth from God’s Word. Also, most of my ministry work will consist of prison, group homes, nursing homes, and orphanages outreach programs. I say a pastor because, in my older years, I feel called to settle down and shepherd a local church.
My ministry dream is to show the world that God loves them through simple gestures of kindness and to help them grow closer to God through His Word. I want to be a pillar for the Lord, speaking His Truth boldly even if it means I will be hated by the world. My pastor is my mentor, and he has been giving me opportunities to exercise the gift that the Lord has given me. My church has given me a position as an Adult Sunday School teacher. As for my family, my mom is a big supporter to my calling from the Lord.
It would be a great opportunity to have a scholarship at CLI because it will allow me to get some formal training and my ordination. I can’t afford to go to college because my past criminal troubles make it hard for me to get a decent job. What little bit of money I do make goes to paying my bills and I can’t afford to take on another bill that I know I wouldn’t be able to pay.
Please pray that the Lord will continue to enlighten me in His Word and that I will continue to speak boldly for the Lord as I strive to be a light unto this dying world.
Thanks for hearing my story.
Matthew Bell has been a High School teacher for four years and has been called to Ministry! He dreams of earning he Degree of Divinity, and he enrolled at Christian Leaders Institute to make his dreams a reality! Here is his story…
Degree of Divinity – Matthew’s Story
My name is Matthew Bell, and I live in the United States of America.
I wish to become an Internet Evangelist.
I was born and raised in Arizona (USA). My mother and father separated because my father was a heavy drinker. He never abused any of his children. In fact, I only have fond memories of my father from my childhood. Thankfully, he quit drinking when I started high school, and now we have a wonderful relationship. However, there was another thing that was missing from my childhood – God.
My entire high school experience was void of God. He was alien to me. But God knew me, and He was sending someone after me. When I graduated from high school, I was totally lost and without any plans or desires. I was lost. Then my uncle (Michael) came into my life and led me to Jesus. He sat down with me and showed me the Gospel of John. Then he walked me down the Roman’s road. He held up the Bible, and it showed me my reelection – I was a sinner. I had to repent.
Then he told me the greatest news I have ever heard in my entire life: “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith.”
My uncle later baptized me.
Immediately I had a purpose in my life. I was saved, and I lived to serve the Kind of kings. I enrolled in Bible college and pursued youth ministry. I knew I wanted to serve the youth, I just didn’t know how. So I remained in the youth ministry program until I was required to take a teaching course. For the moment, I took that course everything became clear. I knew I was called to serve in public education as a high school teacher. I changed my major from youth ministry to secondary education with an emphasis in English. Later, I would graduate from Arizona Christian University as “The Most Outstanding Student in Education.”
I just finished my fourth year of teaching high school English. I got to serve not only the high school student but also the adult teachers surrounding me. At the same time, I continued to teach and serve the youth at my local church. I clearly see God’s providence in my life to call me into ministry in multiple fields: Public Education AND youth ministry.
Now I hear the call again. I feel led to deepening my understand of God by finishing my education in the field of Ministry. I long to go to seminary and graduate with a Masters in Divinity. I no longer want to teach students about Romeo and Juliet or The Odyssey. I long to teach God’s Word.
Teaching will always be a passion of mine, and (God willing) I wish to teach for the rest of my life. But God has also given me another wonderful gift – a family. I met my wife a year after being saved. She is the greatest woman I have ever met. She is loving and brilliant. Since we’ve been married, I have witnessed her do incredible things: she has served as a police officer for over five years, and now she is a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). But above all, I witnessed her give birth to three wonderful children.
I am not only a husband; I am a father too. And God has changed my passion once again. I have an incredible passion for evangelism. My goal is to become an Internet Evangelist. I want to evangelize to the common man. I average American that spends there time scrolling through Twitter and Facebook looking for something. I want to show them that what they are looking for is God. What they need is not another “Like” on their social media, but a Savior.
I want to create sharable, one-minute videos that proclaim to Gospel! I want to engage people exactly where they spend most of their time – on their phones. I don’t only want to evangelize to youth. I want to speak to fathers and mothers too. I want the entire family.
I will call this evangelism platform – American Christian
Your support and prayers in this endeavor would mean so much to me and my family. Please help me with this call of Evangelism.