MISSION FIELD FOR MINISTRY WITH EVANGELISM
My name is Harry Jonathan Gene Hersey Jr. and I was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio in the United States of America. I was raised in a baptist church (Saint Paul’s Church of God in Christ) with my grandma and found God’s presence there throughout my life. I became older entering my teenage years and was always helping people, giving, and having respect for my elders as well and was well mannered. I always had a sense to experience more in life. So my grandma passed and I never really had a father figure I kinda strayed away into the world to see what it had to offer.
There was ups and downs and encounters with the trials of life. Best friends and bad influences as well but in the outline of my heart God was there. My pastor passed as well and I felt alone so I had no Godly counsel in my life so it wasn’t important to me. I attended job corp. in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1999 and graduated from there in February 2000 when I was 17 but I had a true encounter with the Holy Spirit. There was five of us in a music room having service and they asked me if I wanted to receive Jesus as my Lord and Savior and I did. Minutes later in an uproar of prayer and worship, the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me and I began to speak in tongues (I’m not sure if its a different language of any nationality) but the flood gates were flowing! My eyes were open and it seemed like I was looking out of a brand new pair of eyes! Literally! So when I went home I wasn’t prepared for the persecutions ahead so I fell..but Jesus was still watching over me.
I moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 2012 and it was kinda rough at first due to adjustments with moving. But it was home. My wife found God first and I was seeing what the world had to offer me at the time and she split. So after being homeless she called my safe link minute phone and told me she was in church now and if I wanted to work it out with her I must go to church and get my life right. So I went (thinking of personal gain) and what I truly gained was forgiveness of my sins and introduction to the Savior of all mankind Jesus Christ and the master of the universe our Father our LORD God!
I’ve been going steady for a year and 3 months now and it’s a Pentecostal church. So I’m in the mission field of outreaching, Street Preaching, and sharing testimonies. But what the Father has put in my heart is to tell the world that there is hope! And there is freedom and forgiveness in Jesus Christ. And that God wants to have a relationship with us. He created us fearfully and wonderfully! And there is a place of rest and pure joy with God with Jesus in heaven and the only thing that comes between our relationship is sin! The enemy against God and we must be cleansed of it. And Jesus is the only way that can do that and has done that for us. All we have to do is accept him as our Lord and Savior! And I say to all of God’s creation…there is hope in Jesus! God bless!
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CHRISTIAN LEADERS BASIC CERTIFICATE FOR CHRISTIAN MINISTRY
My name is Larry Herald. I live in Ohio which is in the United States of America. Currently I experience great freedom to do ministry, although times are changing and the future doesn’t look as free as it once did.
I did not grow up in the church. However, right after I turned 15, some people came to visit us from the large church in town. My father worked with one of the men who went there and he had been witnessing to my father for about 8 years. He finally gave in and agreed to let someone come out and visit thinking that would get him off his back. But that night my mom, dad, brother and I all accepted Christ as our Savior.
I immediately became involved in the ministry. Two years later at a missions conference where Warren Wiersbe was the guest speaker, I went forward and committed my life to full time Christian Ministry. Later that year, I started school at Grand Rapids Baptist College. I wasn’t prepared to go to school with a bunch of missionary kids and preachers’ kids who didn’t have a deep passion for the Lord like I had. I let it get to me and I ended up leaving after a year. While I was there I met my future wife. She, too, was called into ministry work. Over the years we have been involved in all kinds of Christian ministry. From Christian radio to ministry leaders in church to finally planting a church. My vision from the Lord was to reach lost bikers. So we planted a church where bikers can come and hear about the gospel and grow in the Lord. I am currently serving as the senior pastor of Freedom in the Wind Church. I am also the planter and founder of this church along with my wife and another couple.
Although I have been involved in ministry ever since coming to know the Lord in October of 1997, the Lord called me to a new phase of ministry. I was working in Christian radio at the time and I was in Washington D.C. covering the Promise Keepers Million Man Conference. While I was there and interviewing people, the Lord brought several bikers into my path. They were from the Christian Motorcyclists Association and the Sons of God Motorcycle Club. Through the course of the interview God revealed to me that motorcycles were going to be a part of my next ministry calling, although I did not currently ride or own a motorcycle. Over the course of the next year the Lord opened all the doors and we transitioned into motorcycle ministry.
As we got involved in the ministry and people got saved, there weren’t a lot of church options to send folks to. So many churches in America only want people like themselves and these people were different. They had tattoos and beards and long hair and they wore leather coats and chaps. So I began to pray about it and the Lord said, make a church for them and welcome everyone.
At that time, I went and talked to my pastor and he began meeting with me and praying for God’s wisdom. A couple of years later, I met another couple who had done street ministry in California and they were very open to helping us start a church. Once we felt God’s blessing to move forward, my church licensed me and blessed me to move forward. They helped open the doors for us to become a church plant for the American Baptist Churches USA. They also support us with their prayers and about $5,000 a year.
My whole family has been involved in the life of this church. Currently, my wife is the worship leader along with my oldest son who plays guitar and sings. My youngest son also plays bass and sings and really does anything musically that we need. Our daughter also sings and oversees the children’s ministry. Our other son was a part of the music ministry until he moved to Texas to help plant a church there where he is the worship leader.
I have been looking for a way to finish my schooling and to get deeper into God’s word and ministry training. I am not able to relocate and I don’t have a lot of funds to pay for schooling. The church I pastor has about 70 members. I really feel like this could be just the opportunity that I have been looking for and I thank God for directing me to it.
We are really trying to reach the lost bikers in this community and we need some mature Christians to come along side us and help us with discipleship, mentoring etc. In general, we need more people who are willing to do ministry so that we can create a place for people to come and worship the Lord.
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Free Online Biblical Studies For Ministry Diploma
My name is Zachary Schmoll. I live in Orange, Vermont. Currently I am an insurance underwriter by day. I am also studying online to get my Master of Arts in Apologetics from Houston Baptist University with an anticipated graduation of May 2016. I love apologetics! I think it is my most appropriate ministry. But I was looking for a structured way to reinforce my theological biblical studies background a little bit. That is how I came to find the Christian Leaders Institute.
I have been a Christian for most of my life, but I began to take faith more seriously in my senior year of college. I had a friend who would challenge me on the fundamentals of the Christian faith which I had always taken for granted. Being from a Christian home, a lot of these things were simply what we believed. I never had a legitimate, intellectual challenge to my faith up until that point.
It was at that point that I began to develop an interest in apologetics biblical studies. I began to read a variety of books and watching a variety of debates to learn that Christianity actually has an incredibly robust intellectual history that has yet to suffer defeat at the hands of any other worldview. From that point of entry, everything kind of advanced to the point where I am now enrolled in graduate school and learning how to earnestly contend for the Christian faith.
I was an accounting and statistics undergraduate, so I do not have a traditional biblical studies background. Being raised in the church, I have received quite a bit of scriptural teaching over the years. However, that is different than the type of training that you receive through a Bible college with their biblical studies. At the same time, I am not in a position where I can afford to pay for two complete degree programs simultaneously to get the Biblical Studies background that I would like to have to more strongly reinforce my apologetics training. That is why Christian Leaders Institute and their biblical studies program is so valuable for me. I am able to do both and ultimately become a better apologist because of this opportunity.
It is interesting to think about where these biblical studies is going to lead me. Many apologists go into writing, and I also have proceeded in that direction through my own personal blog and contributing to a variety of websites around the Internet. I hope that greater education will obviously make my writing that much more compelling and impactful.
Vermont is an interesting place to be in apologetics. It is the least churched state in America, and I suppose that provides quite a bit of potential opportunity. We do not have very many apologetic ministries specifically in Vermont, so that might be a niche where I can slide the gifts I have been given into.
Overall, the Christian Leaders Institute is an excellent biblical studies program that I am hoping to use as a supplement to the incredible apologetic training I am receiving from Houston Baptist University.
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