Online Training For Ministry In Cameroon Better For Most
Christianity is flourishing in Cameroon and many have accepted God’s call to pastor churches, despite a lack of training and often being new believers themselves. There are the challenges of not having the financial resources for most to receive ministry training, being able to relocate many miles from home, and even the social challenges with friends and family. Where can one turn in such a situation?
With Christian Leaders Institute, not only can you find yourself receiving online training for ministry, it is also absolutely free to those who enroll. This benefits all of our students as they can keep working at their current job, not relocate, or stress over financial burdens going to school can place on adults. All CLI requires is your passion and dedication to achieve your God-given call.
Read the incredible story of one CLI student living in Cameroon.
Online Training For Ordination Through CLI Found In Cameroon
I was born in 1974 in Bali of the Northwest region of Cameroon in a large polygamous family. I soon left my parents at the age of 6 to live with my uncle in Yaoundé, the city capital of Cameroon. Things did not go well as I lost my father a year later. The love and care was not the same and I became a difficult child. My mother had six children (4 girls and 2 boys). After completing my high school, I opted for the professional training than the university academic studies. With the hope of assisting my mother’s poor health as a nurse, she passed away few months to my graduation. Two years later, my two sisters passed away. With this entire emotional and psychological trauma in my life, I was blessed with Elodie Nana as a perfect match and we became married in 2004. Since 2005, we became parents to four kids with a set of twin boys inclusive: Atsalia, Donald, Mac and Elfrida. Currently I live in Cameroon and the land is open to the gospel. The two main official religions are Christianity and Muslims and each tries to profess their faith alongside, hence we give God the glory for the peace we are enjoying. All churches are requested to have government authorization before they open their doors, though it is difficult this days to have one, however many new ministries do this by affiliating or working under the coverage of existing Christian movements.
Facing all manners of academic, family, and social challenges, I began to be troubled about my existence, purpose, and if I could ever smile in the future. I moved guardians to live with a step brother. Two of my classmates, sons of pastors of Pentecostal churches, preached to me. After resistance, I gave my life to Jesus Christ. Jesus redeemed me on that blessed Sunday on January 6, 1991. I received a water baptism years later and the Holy Spirit baptism in 1998. These periods were equally marked with a lot of persecution. The difficulties and persecution gave me no chance to look behind, but rather move forward to Jesus Christ. With family pressure to stop sponsoring my education if I did not stop the ‘born again’ issue, I was groomed through a school bible club. Within the early years of conversion my sadness, loneliness, bitterness and rough character gradually ebbed away as I felt joy and the warmth of God’s love. I realized that a collaborative work is essential in humility and respect of others. Secondly it is the outcome of the work that matters for God’s glory, continually doing it by his grace and not the title we have.
In my three years of nursing training, I was a member of an interdenominational Christian youth movement called Cameroon Youths for Jesus. Two years later, I was the branch coordinator in Yaoundé from 2000 to 2003. I became active in my church (Full Gospel Mission) after marriage in 2004. With the Lord’s training within the Youth movement and with the college of leaders and pastors, I was ordained as an elder with the Full Gospel Mission Cameroon in 2005. I have been coordinating the youths, the marriage committee, and assisting in translation, any effective Christian work must be done in English and translated to French or vice versa. From my Christian health position as a nurse, church elder, writing skills, counseling, interpretations and teaching skills I like to empower youths to grow in their Christian faith with vision and a Christ-liked passion service; highlighting for professional integrity in the hospital, I am also burdened to listen to people, counsel and helping people to grow to know God more. The ordination will help to consolidated and embody my Christ given purpose.
Seven of my ten years of nursing practice was in the ICU where God enabled me to understand the essence of my life. There is a marked discrepancy between theory and practice by the health personnel. Morals have dropped, though there are traces of exceptions. Patients are desperate and many closed up during health care delivery. God’s grace for counseling became recognized upon my life when I was called to assist in counseling with difficult and non-compliant patients. I orientated this counseling service by introducing the good news of the Gospel to almost all patients. With time, my colleagues confided in me and God’s grace was manifest as some opened up to Jesus and others did not. I had been active in church all these years, stressing on sanctification and holiness, but soon realized I was wanting. Though I had been translating for the long and trained in leadership with the international leadership institute, I felt I was floating. I could not sustain or explain some biblical notions before professional challenges. The Christian gathering limited to some social, technological, secular realities etc. all of which thrilled my quest for a bible training program though the hindrance was finances. I had been stressing on professional integrity during seminars organized by the bible club of the hospital. Teaching biblical methods of prevention on HIV/AIDS and STI’s at school clubs during the youth week in some private schools in Yaoundé. A young boy came to the hospital of recent to pray for a patient and the doctor doubted his title of a pastor and asked for a pastor’s badge permitting to distinguish him from quacks. Our young pastor had no badge and was refused from entering the ward. To authenticate my training, and sustain the ministry work through my foundation with Cameroon’s bureaucratic system some doors (health facilities or church organizations) will only open before me when I present an ordination certificate.
Once I had the CLI online training scholarship, it was a dream come true. The CLI courses have helped to stabilize my faith in both spiritual and the secular sphere. It is my desire to continually share this great opportunity with all. Especially the youths who are victims of false prosperity preachers. Though there is limited feedback during the online training, I have found my needs met and also the openness and passion Henry and David has in seeing students equipped and blessed with biblical knowledge. I quote them because I wrote on several occasions asking for permission to use extracts of their materials for my book and they were very willing and encouraging. As earlier said, the courses answer abstract to life secular and spiritual realities. It has shaped my personality and it has been answering my potential and actual challenges in church and Christian services. Cameroon, though poor and aspiring to be an emerging nation, is very bureaucratic. To palliate this to my wife, I set up an organization called “The Lamp Foundation,” which is here to enable us to reach health facilities beyond the boundaries of my hospital and carry out Christian programs easily. While I was completing my CLI online training courses by the mercies and grace of Jesus Christ, I published my first Christian literature called “The Healing hands of the potter; doctor’s treat, nurses give care but Jesus heals.” The materials from CLI are a compendium for my book, seminars, and ministry. I am passionate to see the youth grow and serve Jesus Christ with a true meaning in life escaping the vile pleasures of life. I am passionate to see adults take on a meaningful course in life and not become victims of ignorance. I am available and open, yearning to network, collaborate with leaders or organizations of like vision and mission, giving true meaning to lives through Jesus Christ for his glory. My local church and senior pastor is very supportive in my pursuit of ministry. They allow us to present to the church about my ministry dream and they are praying for me. I have called my pastor for spiritual assistance in the hospital, as well as being programmed to minister in church after which remarks are made.
I am very grateful to God for this free education that CLI has offered me. Being a major bread winner for my home, but with little salary, recognized bible schools in Cameroon are campus based and expensive and without the means of having an off duty permission for training even if that was possible. I have no justification to make with the exception that I very indebted for this wonderful opportunity given me. This made it possible to work and carry on my online training with ease. The online training through CLI is really bible based and focused, hence different from other professional training and online training that allows for unnecessary stuff. Please pray that the desire God has placed in our heart will grow and that in our future ministry, we will always seek to glorify our heavenly Father, remain humble, consecrated, obey the whole bible truth, and that we will not seek our own interest. Also pray that we will be loyal to the knowledge, training materials, and vision of CLI. Also pray for prompt networking, open doors for further training, grace for partnership, and success in ministries.
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“And He said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.’ ” -Mark 16:15
Called Into Ministry To Be A Leader
Though all Christians are called to serve the cause of Christ, God calls certain persons to serve the Church as pastors and other ministers. One way of knowing of being called into ministry is the inward call. The inward call is where a person feels God placing desire to preach inside of them. There is a need for wanting nothing else in the world BUT to reach others for our Almighty God. If you have an intense, all-absorbing desire for the work, you have been called into ministry by none other then God himself. However, there is also an external call. To be externally called into ministry involves the congregation recognizing a person’s gifts and to then encourage their brother or sister in Christ to use their gift with joy and submission.
Consider your calling. No matter if you have been called into ministry inwardly or externally, CLI encourages YOU to further your studies of ministry to advance the kingdom! If you feel an anointing on your life, we are here for you like our many other students. Tonya Cajuste is fulfilling her calling. Read her story below to see how she was called into ministry and what ministry dreams are ready to be opened by the Lord.
Tonya Cajuste Was Called Into Ministry
My name is Tonya Cajuste and I live in West Palm Beach, Florida in the United States. Ministry in the States is less restrictive than it is in other parts of the world, I imagine. I find that I am able to minister to people by just showing them the Jesus in me. I have a burning desire to ensure that each life I touch is better off for having come in contact with me. I spend time volunteering for various causes and doing various types of outreach because I feel that, as a Christian, I have a responsibility to the community in which I live to be a bright beacon of hope and light. It is my sincere belief that if I shine my Jesus Light, it will bring people to the kingdom. I want people to realize there is something different about me and I want them to ask what that difference is so I can share with them the awesome and amazing power of our Holy Father!
My Christian journey began when I was a teenager, but I was never “all in.” I always had one foot in the world and seemed to be unable to leave certain behaviors alone. It wasn’t until well into my adulthood that I realized that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the light. Yes, I said the ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ probably 15 times, but I never really internalized the true gravity of what Jesus did on that cross for us…for me. Once I realized just how much God loved me and how much grace He had granted me and that He loved me so much that He sent His only begotten son to die for my sins I was “all in” and “sold out” for Christ and the Kingdom of God. There is nothing that God can’t do. There is no hurt He can’t heal. There is no burden too great for our Almighty Father.
My husband and I share a dream to heal marriages. It seems that people – even ‘church people’ take marriage lightly or don’t put in the effort to have a solid marriage with God at the head. We are working on putting together some curriculum and seminars for couples to attend together. Additionally, we have attended several workshops and training ourselves because we want to practice what we preach. We plan on being married “…until death do us part…” and we want the time between now and then to be happy and joyous. Of course, there will be tribulations, but with God, we know we can work through them. We want others to have that same peace. In addition to marriage ministry, I am working on seminars for young girls and my husband is working on the same for young boys. We want to heal our young people. The things they face today are so different from many of the hurdles we faced. They need guidance and a listening ear. It is our desire to provide that.
I suppose I am more of a small group leader as it stands right now. I feel like I am able to focus on individual growth in the small group setting. I do feel that God has bigger plans for me, though, and I will continue to listen to His voice and move accordingly.
God has saved my life at least three times. Even when I continued to turn away from Him he still came to my rescue. Most recently, in November 2014, I experienced what is called an aortic dissection. This is where the aorta, the main blood vessel in the heart, separates from heart. I had emergency open heart surgery and was in the hospital – actually four hospitals – for a five month period. Though it appeared that I was healing, my heart began going into arrhythmias for which I needed several cardiac ablation surgeries to correct them. On five separate occasions my husband was told to say his goodbyes. He refused and turned to God. I refused and turned to God. God was so gracious to us. He spared my life. I want my life to reflect His goodness and His grace and I want to share that with others. There is no reason that I am still alive today except because of God’s grace and tender mercy.
Interestingly, there are probably nine churches in a five block radius of my home. But on Sunday mornings, there are so many people not attending service it is shocking. The area itself represents the racial and socioeconomic spectrum. There are the wealthy to the very poor living within one mile of one another. What I see in my area is desperation and a lack of hope.
I recently moved to this area and just changed churches about two months ago. My previous pastor welcomed my ideas and gave me a great deal of latitude as it relates to trying new things. With my health the way it is – pending a kidney and heart transplant – I had to attend a church that was closer to home. I am just getting settled in my new church and have not yet begun any type of outreach, though my plan is to get involved in a few of the ministries in the next month or so.
My husband is extremely supportive and, as I explained previously, we feel that we are being called to work together in the area of healing marriages and preparing engaged couples for marriage.
CLI is a God-send. Without CLI, my husband and I would not be able to get the knowledge we so desperately felt we needed. We want to represent the Lord and we want to know what we are talking about. Not just a base or cursory knowledge, but substantial Biblical knowledge. CLI provides that. Our financial situation would not allow even one of us to attend seminary. We are so thankful for having found CLI and we thank God for the administration. They are helping so many people to fulfil God’s plan and purpose…including me.
Please ask God to give us the words he wants us to use to reach people. Ask Him to allow people to see Jesus in us. Ask him to allow our teaching to touch hearts and win souls to the kingdom. Ask Him to bless our ministry for His glory. Ask Him to remind us each day that it is by His grace and for His glory that we are doing this.
Do You Feel Called Into Ministry?
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Ministry Training For The Called By God
Some of us are blessed being raised in a home where God is welcome. Others were not so fortunate. God calls those close to Him, those who know Him, those who surrender their life to be a vessel for Him. He will call those who have known Him all their life. He will call those who come to Him later in life. God knows each and every one of our hearts and calls whom He chooses to call.
But now that we’ve been called, what comes next? Where do we turn to? How do we establish what we are called to do?
Get trained! Ministry training not only opens up future doors, but truly equips you in ways to be a leader in God’s army. While we need a depth of understanding in the Word of God, future ministry leaders also need to be guided in grief, hospital visits, marriage ceremonies, and the variety of challenges you will face in ministry just to name a few. All of these things can be found covered at Christian Leaders Institute where not only is high quality ministry training provided for free, but also online. This benefits you as a student in ministry training, but more importantly benefits our God to leave no man or woman called left behind. If you have been called by God, you will not be found turned away by CLI.
Jerry O’Brian found ministry training beneficial for him in his life. Read his testimony below.
Ministry Training with Christian Leaders Institute
Hello, my name is Jerry O’Brian and I live in the United States with my wife and three kids. I was born in 1981 in a little town called Paintsville, Kentucky. From birth, my life has had many struggles. Upon birth, I was dead. The doctors could find no life in me, but thanks to God above, my father (also my mentor), who is an ordained Pentecostal Holiness minister, cried out to God to spare me, and God gave me life. Satan himself knew the impact that I could have through God’s ministry upon my very birth and tried to stop it, but God said “NO”.
Beyond most people that I know, I have been very blessed since I was raised in a home that gave complete reverence to God in His plan of salvation and a holy walk with God. My father worked hard as a mechanic to provide a home and food on the table for me and my five siblings. Times were tough and many times we had little. As I am older now, I realize that what we had in each other as a family, especially being together with God, was worth more than all the riches of the world. As a young lad, I became very active in my church life by playing various instruments in church as well as singing. Prayer and worship to God was a common practice with my whole family and I can’t remember a time in my life that I didn’t know how or who to pray to. As I began to grow up, my life with God began to grow as well. I began to be more active by openly testifying and taking part in the services at church. At one point in High School, I carried a Bible with me on top of my other school books and read it sometimes between class work. Having it with me and having my classmates see it also was a way for me to let my light shine without having to say a word.
Now I am out of high school and have a family of my own. I have recently finished my Associates degree in Business from college. But my real desire is to see God’s will done within His church and to preach his gospel to a lost and dying world. I remember as a teenager I would walk the back yard at home and I could hear the spirit within me preaching as I would walk. It was then I wondered if I too had been called into the ministry. However, I was unsure of myself. What if I failed? Was I good enough? These were many questions I had that hindered me from stepping out in faith and pursuing the calling in my life. I have allowed Satan to stop me for many years by making me feel like I am inadequate to do God’s will in my life. I have had many times that I failed God, but it is important to always try. No one is ever truly defeated until they quit trying.
I am so glad that I found Christian Leaders Institute. It’s a wonderful feeling to have somewhere you can get quality ministry training for free. I believe that the true calling in the ministry comes from God above, and no its not to make money, it’s to spread His word and save souls. Our payment as ministers is in the hereafter when we are able to be with Jesus and lay our crowns at his feet in gratitude for all of the wonderful things he has done for us. Being able to get this ministry training from the Christian Leaders Institute is a great way to start the ministry that God called me to do so very long ago.
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