I attended the ACEA ministry training accreditation conference in Portland, OR. The conference was held from June 9-11. This year’s conference included Portland Bible College Internship summit. The conference was represented by various world wide ministries.
Anchorage Leaders Passionate About Ministry Training Accreditation
One ministry was City Church School of Ministry. Al Woods is a director organization in Anchorage, Alaska. Ministry training accreditation for this school is about accountability and support. This local school raises up local leaders in the journey of calling and ministry preparation. This can potential lead to ordination at City Church. I met the senior pastor of City Church of Anchorage, Rich Irwin. I enjoyed his generous spirit and calling into ministry training at the local level.
The ACEA Brand of Ministry Training Accreditation
ACEA has gathered partnering schools that are interested in ministry training accreditation issues. This non-traditional accreditation organization stands in contrast to the government accreditation models. The government accreditation models feature things like the need for a physical library, tenured professors and residencies. These models do not work will with the passion of Christian Leaders Institute to remain free and available to train Christian Leaders in the free model of funding.
Ken Malmin, Dean of Portland Bible College
Christian Leaders Institute values accountability and creditability. We seek to be members of a non-traditional organization that is encouraging us to bring students and graduates excellent and high quality ministry training. Ministry training accreditation is important to Christian Leaders Institute.
The Dean and Professor of Theology of Portland Bible College, Ken Malmin, talked about the place of preparation for ministry training. Every ministry training group needs to encourage personal effectiveness. No amount of Ministry training accreditation can mentor students into many of important effectiveness traits.
Some Mentioned Ministry Effectiveness Traits:
Humility
Character
People Skills
Hearing God
Communication Skills
Leadership Skills
Discipline
Administration Skills
Financial Skills
Life Skills
Wisdom Skills
Each of these skills are required for effective ministry, and none of them can be learned in a classroom. There are core practices and principles surrounding many of these that can be taught in a class, but the only way to become effective in these skills is to practice them. One of the best ways to gain experience and really learn the skills is also to see them in action. This is where mentors can play a crucial role in developing ministry leaders.
This ACEA conference has given me more ideas of how to implement ministry training accreditation culture at Christian Leaders Institute.
Youth Initiative A Passion For Phillip Zgambo of Zambia
Youth Initiative describes this man’s life, his missions, his calling and even his desired focus ministry. Phillip Zgambo of Zambia has helped his community whenever he could; including working with Global Youth Initiative Zambia. Now he has chosen Christian Leaders Institute to learn and become more effective in his youth initiative efforts.
Youth Initiative basically means young people taking introductory steps or leading action. Phillip desires to learn to be a good teacher, showing young people how to break away from backward traditions and become shining examples to others.
Teaching them how to live with true youth initiative through Jesus Christ.
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I am Phillip Zgambo and I live in Ndola; Zambia’s second city and the capital of the copper-rich Copperbelt province. I am married. Together with my wife Noliva we have one beautiful son; Chimwemwe. (His name means JOY in our native language) Both Noliva and I are born-again Christians.
–Ndola is the third largest city in Zambia, with a population of 455,194 (2010 census provisional). It is the industrial and commercial center of the Copperbelt, Zambia’s copper-mining region, and capital of Copperbelt Province. It is also the commercial capital city of Zambia and has one of the three international airports, others being Livingstone and Lusaka. It lies just 10 km from the border with DR Congo.[1] … …Ndola was founded in 1904 making it the second oldest colonial-era town of Zambia… …Many closed factories and plants lie unoccupied in the town… …Ndola is home to one of the country’s national newspapers, the Times of Zambia, as well as its printer, Printpak. These run as one company called TimesPrintpak.
Catholic Church run printing press, ‘Mission Press’, is also located in Ndola. ‘Mission Press’ operates as a commercial entity.
I got saved in February of 1993 during my last grade of Secondary School at Chama High. I had just moved there a month earlier after having been expelled from my previous school and spending over a year at the farm. My previous Deputy Headmaster from school saw something in me and refused to let me rot at the farm. As his last act before relocating, he called me to his office and gave me a transfer letter to another school where my record of miss-deeds was not known.
A month after moving to Chama, I was invited to the Scripture Union meeting; where incidentally the guy preaching shared my last name, Cosmas Zgambo. The preaching that evening was about me even though there were dozens of us in attendance and Cosmas had no idea who I was or what I had ever done. “Some of you are involved in one caper after another and when people applaud it you feel like you are champions. But truth be told, when you are alone, you feel completely empty and useless,” he said. He preached right to me. By the time the meeting was over I was at the altar.
I have been involved in youth initiative and ministry ever since that time. Leading a group of youth outreach ministers in Kitwe, Zambia called Destiny Youths and a Christian NGO, Global Youth Initiative Zambia is some of what I do.
I have no doubt what God’s call is on my life. I feel like Christian Leaders Institute is what I have been waiting years for. I feel a scholarship from CLI will help me prepare to achieve God’s will and vision for my life. I feel the training I will receive from CLI will help me become a better Minister of God, a better Outreach worker, a better youth initiative mentor and a better church member. Jesus will make me a better husband, better father to my son and a better me!
–Global Youth Initiative Zambia – “In December of 1996, a number of young men and women met in Kitwe, Copperbelt Zambia over what they termed ‘The Youth Vision’. The idea was to get the youth involved in issues that affect society. A couple of youth ventures were launched from that meeting, one of them being an un-registered group called ‘DESTINY YOUTHS’. As Destiny Youths, we carried out a number of outreach events in Zambia from 1996 to 2009. We narrowed down our areas of focus to issues of HIV/AIDS and Climate Change/Environment issues between 2002 and 2008. We incorporated in January 2010 as Global Youth Initiative Zambia (GYIZ) with our motto as ‘Imparting a Vision…Impacting a Generation!’.”
This Christian Leaders Institute student has been involved with Global Youth Initiative Zambia and many other life changing ministries in and around his community. Phillip Zgambo has shown that you can rise above a jagged past with Jesus and make a difference.
My Ministry goal is to be involved in youth Evangelism. The youth are my passion. When I see the uncertainty that they face today, both churched and un-churched, my heart bleeds. They need someone who has felt what they are feeling and can tell them there is a better way. God’s way and JESUS’ way is for them. I want to preach and propagate the grace of Jesus. That is the passion God put on my heart back in 1994.
I want to reach my corner of the world for Jesus. I may not be able to travel the world for HIM but I certainly will reach my corner for Jesus; with His grace. That is why I need good quality training and preparation. The kind I strongly believe I would receive at Christian Leaders Institute.
I see myself as an Evangelist/Teacher. I have a passion for youth initiative and leading the younger generation to Jesus. I also have a passion to ground them in Christ. I have a Bachelor’s Degree in business Administration and 3 Diplomas in Business and Sales.
For now, I feel led into bi-vocational ministry. If God says otherwise later, He is God. He knows best. Your prayers over my life, family, ministry and my field of practice will go a long way in taking me to His destiny planned for me.
Many thanks from Zambia;
Phillip Zgambo
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Christian family values carried Emmanuel Ainu of Ghana through his life. Sometimes things happened to strengthen his faith which drove him to learn more about Jesus. God’s plans are already in place for us. This Christian Leaders Institute student is pressing forward to strengthen his calling.
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My name is Emmanuel Ainu, a 28 year old Ghanaian. I was born in Ghana and currently live in Essikadu, Ghana with my wife. We are expecting our first child by the end of the year. We are a Christian family living in Essikadu, a town within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly of the Western Region in Ghana.
Wiki: Essikado is a town in the Western region of Ghana. It is 20 kilometres from the centre Takoradi[1] the Western regional capital. The town is within Sekondi. It is used mainly as a dormitory town for various workers who work in the regional capital and its environs. The town is in the Essikado-Ketan constituency of Ghana.
I was born into a Christian family. My dad and eldest brother are both serving as Ministers of the gospel with the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church Ghana. I was brought up and baptized under the Christian faith. I developed a deeper love and understanding of the faith ten years ago. I was listening to a preaching message on tape and I had a strange feeling in my mind and body. After this feeling, my desire to read the word of God, fast, pray and teach the word became insatiable. I later came to understand that the strange feeling, as I described it, was not a mere feeling but rather a filling of the Holy Spirit of God within me…
I had a nearly fatal car accident in 2012 that made the reality of Heaven and hell even more real to me. I survived but have always wondered where those who died went. Even as a Christian family we hadn’t really established the belief in me of what Heaven was; up to this point. This singular incident really fired in me the passion to spread the good news about Jesus.
Like the Bible says in 2 Timothy 2:21(KJV) “21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.” I want to be a vessel of honour sanctified and made ready for the use of God. I desire for God to use me to touch many people across the globe. People need a Christian family life. I look at life in Essikadu and there are many churches but lifestyle and behavior patterns show this land needs serious revival. I desire for God to use me to stir up this revival even beyond the borders of my country.
Ghana is a largely Christian country and I believe a majority of the population really love the Lord. I am a youth leader and deacon of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church at Essikadu. There are many Orthodox and Charismatic denominations in Essikadu. Sadly the town needs revival of the Holy Spirit now more than ever. Christian family values and examples are fading here.
Essikadu as a town needs the revival of God. Most of our churches are virtually empty during Church services. A lot of the youth are vagabonds without parental supervision. Deviant behaviors are rampant. Teenage pregnancy is a common sight. Most parents are more interested in work and making money than seeking God, leading their children to seek God or building a solid Christian family. Oddly, Easter and Christmas are periods when deviant behaviors reach unimaginable proportions in this area.
My local church has been of immense support to my ministry efforts. The Pastors and elders are reliable sources of inspiration and advice at all times. Most of our church members also hold me in high esteem and give me necessary respect even though many are older. My family is an unceasing flow of love and support. As a Christian family they do everything they can to move my ministry forward. The calling on my life is to be a Pastor (Shepherd); to teach, preach, pray and strengthen others. This reflects my passions and now has become more obvious after going through the Getting Started Class with Christian Leaders Institute.
A scholarship at CLI will give me the much needed opportunity to receive adequate training, sharpen my skills and strengthen my mental resolve to succeed in ministry. CLI will also place me in a larger Christian family who share in the same focus and direction. Christian Leaders Institute has already been a blessing. The scholarship will help my ministerial calling succeed.
Pray for my ministry at Essikadu. There are many souls to be won and many hearts to be turned to God. Essikadu for God, Ghana for God and the World for God.
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