Formal Bible Training is needed desperately in this world!
“62% of the world’s pastors have no Formal Bible Training and will probably never get any formal training from Bible school. A lot of these pastors have less than a 6th-grade education”– Phil Long, President of Global Action
My name is Pastor Rebecca Simmons, I currently reside in the United States of America.
This is my story of why I am so grateful for Christian Leader Institute’s free Formal Bible Training online.
I have been a born again Christian since 1994. Prior to giving my life to the Lord, I had been meeting different men who shared the gospel with me and prayed for me, but I was determined not to get saved as I believed that many in the church were living as hypocrites. One night, while I was out getting ready to get drunk, the Lord sent a man into the bar to talk to me about Jesus. He just happened to know my sister and her boyfriend and asked for a personal introduction to me. Once we were introduced to each other, we spent the rest of our time in that bar dancing and flirting with each other and I forgot about getting drunk. After the bar closed, we sat in my car and talked. He told me about having recently being saved and how much he loved his church. Then he invited me to church. At first I told him no. I said if I was going to hell I would go from the barstool and not the church pew. This was because of my belief that all Christians were hypocrites. We became friends and eventually, I went to church with him. When I walked in the door, I felt like I had come home. I felt like I had found the missing part of my life. I kept going and three months later, I gave my life to the Lord. After that moment, I never stopped going to church.
After ten years of going to church and walking in close relationship with the Lord, I felt the call and the urgency to preach the gospel. I didn’t obey the call to preach the gospel or to pastor right away. For some time, I thought it was just a personal ambition and that God could not possibly have been calling me to serve Him in the way.
One day while running from my call, I found out that I was pregnant and I was devastated. I wondered how I was going to preach the gospel with a new baby to care for. When I was five months pregnant, I found out that my baby had died in my womb and I had to have surgery to remove the dead baby. It was while I was in the hospital that God spoke to me. He asked, me what I would have done if this thing had ended in my death. He said that He had touched my body and wanted to know what I would have done if I had died and had to stand before Him and tell Him why I had refused to do what He called me to do. I wept profusely and from that point on, I knew that I would obey God.
I wrote my first book and started getting calls to speak at book clubs and women’s conferences. Each time I was called to speak, I would preach the gospel. See Rebecca Simmon’s Author page at Kindle
I have been serving in that role for the past eight years. God has given me a heart for the lost and I have a desire to lead others to Him. It is my ministry dream to empower God’s people through the preaching and teaching of His Word as contained in the Bible.
The unique challenges in my geographic areas are that there are so many churches and the people have a mentality of going from church to church and seemingly, a lack of commitment to any one house of worship.
The church tat we were in before my husband and I planted our church gave us their blessing as we went out to plant, Our pastor at that time said that we were too faithful and too faith-filled for him to say it was not God. He blessed us and told us to call him if we needed anything. However, he still has a difficult time receiving the fact that we left the denominational structure and branched out as non-denominational.
My husband and I pastor the church together. My mother got saved and started going back to church at our ministry. Our children who are still in New Jersey all attend church every week and are a part of the ministry serving on the praise team, as musicians, as ushers and as junior trustees. .
A scholarship at CLI is important to me because I have not had the money to attend school and there is no where else where you can receive doctrinally sound free formal Bible training online. I believe that as a result of attending CLI I will be more equipped and effective in my role as a pastor in the Lord’s church.
Please pray that I will continue to stay focused on saving souls and changing lives by making disciples of Jesus Christ. Please pray for our finances as both my husband and I are bi-vocational and constantly believing God for our household and church bills to be paid.
Formal Bible Training at CLI
The Formal Bible Training includes a certificate program, a diploma program and a degree program. The degree program offers an Associate and Bachelor Degree which has an administration fee. If you are a pastor and need Formal Bible Training online, Christian Leaders Institute will help you get what you need.
Japan Ministry Training
Japan ministry training is available in English online and free. This Japan ministry training is available for those who enroll and finish the getting started class. Enroll now. The class covers Christian Basics and locks in a scholarship into Christian Leaders Institute.
My name is Susan Cornelius, I am a missionary and live in Shimonoseki, Japan. I am taking the Japan ministry training offered. My home is on the main island of Honshu at the southwestern end. I was born in a small town in Pennsylvania. My father was a Pastor of a country church. I grew up in a loving, safe home. We went to church three times a week, to revivals, and to camp meetings. In my teen years I rebelled, it is a sad thing to admit, but true. I left home while still a teenager and married young, to an unbeliever. My parents were heartbroken but they prayed!! Praise God for His promise in Proverbs 22:6. My husband and I were saved after making a disaster of our lives and marriage.
I felt called to missions for years, but my husband did not, so we stayed in the states. We attended church, had three children and lived a somewhat normal American life. I constantly talked to my children of the world’s needs and missions. Dr. Dobson had a show that said, “Young families should have a plan just in case a husband/father dies.” I assured my children not to worry, I had a plan, if this happened to us we would hit the mission field. So they grew up with a keen sense of my passion for world missions.
Fast forward: My husband did not die but I started to do short term mission trips. I went with our son’s class to Central America, then I taught Conversational English in South Korea, in 2007 and 2008, for a month at a time. I was overwhelmed with a burning desire to serve abroad. Again my husband didn’t share my passion, but he was ok with me going. He wanted to find a way to help here in the states, so we did for about a year, we worked in a Christian ministry with troubled teen girls. It was after that he said yes, he would try out foreign missions.
We taught in Korea for about six months, then God opened the door for us to go to Japan. We teach Conversational English to reach people with the gospel. Our 22 year old daughter has also joined us and works with preschool students for the same purpose. I need more formal Bible training, so want to take the courses offered, thank you for making that possible. It is so exciting we can enroll in this Japan ministry training through the Internet.
MENTORING MINISTRY SUPPORT
My name is Heide Billings and I currently reside in a small town outside of Atlanta, Georgia. I am originally from Long Island, New York and grew up as the youngest girl of seven siblings. I grew up in a home where my mother taught me to love and trust God in all things and church was a must. However, with all of this I attended church for many years and never knew Jesus as my personal Savior. But all of this changed the summer of 1983 when I began to have a peculiar sensation as if there was an internal battle going on inside of me. I felt as if I was being pulled between two forces. It was also at this very time that my small Baptist Church decided to have a summer revival. The revivalist was a young, on fire Evangelist from North Carolina preaching the Word of God with power, signs and wonders.
It was on a Friday night during this revival that I heeded to the altar call. So with tears streaming down my face, my knees shaking, and legs wobbling I made my way to the altar. That night I repented of my sins and asked Jesus to come into my heart and be my Lord. The internal battle was over and Jesus won. I was saved!!!! Thank God for revival and for always causing us to triumph in Christ Jesus. (1Cor15:57)
I am currently a participant of the mentoring ministry of GodStar Miracle Ministry founded by Pastor Angela Chester and grateful for the ministry introducing me to Christian Leaders Institute. I am thankful for the opportunity to receive mentoring, and the education provided by CLI. My ministry dream is to teach the Word of God with power and revelation knowledge from the Holy Ghost through workshops, conferences, retreats and books and in a concise and clear manner to broken and hurting women. My objective is to provide principles from God’s word so that those that hear would understand, apply the word of God and thereby experience the healing, and restoration in every area of their lives because of the finished work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
I ask that you pray that the ministry would come into fruition at God’s perfect timing and season and bear much fruit in the lives of women as they are saved, healed, restored and living in victory through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I ask you to pray that I operate in humility, integrity, and the Wisdom and Love of God. Lastly I ask you to pray that I would daily yield myself to the Holy Spirit and obey His instruction and promptings as He leads me into God’s perfect plan and will for my life.
If you are interested in taking bible training into local ordination click here to find out more details. Enjoy the comfort of being able to train in ministry with CLI’s free ministry bible school online and set yourself a part for the Lord! Be a part of a great mentoring ministry to help others and yourself being built up in the kingdom!
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