Kalev Peet graduates with a Christian Leaders Basic Certificate. He writes,
We have just relocated to the North Coast of Scotland after a period of living missionally in an
orthodox jewish community. Our part of the UK is traditionally Christian, but in recent years younger generations have left the faith. Scotland is rife for revival, in spite of a growing tide of anti gospel sentiment.
After childhood abuse I slipped into drugs and crime, whilst backpacking I ended up staying in a Guatemalan orphanage run by believers. I saw the gospel preached in deed and word, on my return to the UK, I was further convicted of my need for repentance and the forgiveness found in Jesus. I began trusting in Jesus in 2003 and have been following Him ever since. I have been drug free, and not involved in criminality ever since. Furthermore, the Lord has allowed me to work in prisons, drug and mental health services and homeless outreach. He took the depth of my sin and used it for His glory.
To serve God in my community alongside my wife and children, our town has seen revival before, and we long to be used as a witness and share the love of God in Christ. We live in a small fishing town and want to be a lighthouse for those in darkness. Our hearts are toward opening our home as a simple church/small group, continuing to conduct homeless outreach.
I have several people in my life who God used mightily to speak truth into my life, and the desire to be used of God to speak and sow into the lives of others is a burning desire.I have been blessed with opportunity previously to do this and it felt “right”, I believe the witness of the Word and Spirit have confirmed this call.
The unique challenges in our geographic area is New age practices and paganism. There is a general hostility to things of God.
We have had words of prophecy that God will use our family unit for his glory, that the life experiences and challenges we have overcome by His grace will be used as a testimony and witness for His Kingdom. My family are pivotal in my ministry calling. Home first then the community!!
Christian Leaders Institute is a foundational part in being thoroughly equipped for every good work. The depth and scope of the CLI program will equip me with an education (which I could never afford) to empower and enable me to fulfill the call I have.Please pray for openings in our community, for a boldness of approach in our homeless outreach and street evangelism. Pray that our corporate walk as a family will be founded on grace, empowered by faith and evidenced by fruit, fruit enough to share with others!!
London Bible School Options for At Christian Leaders Institute
I was born 1969 in Ghana to a Ghanaian parents who were not so religious, living alone with my
parents as the third child of theirs, I migrated a few years later at the age of 2 when my Mum and Dad separated, I started living with one of my Aunties, who took care of me as her own, though she wasn’t religious. As I started growing up, I made my own decision to attend any church I set my eyes on and made it a point to go to any church any one invited me to until I decided to attend a Pentecostal church. Attending revivals daily to play instruments for the various churches and helping them out was one of my hobbies, as I was gifted in that particular area, it was with this acts that I got to know more about God and how to serve me.
At the age of 7 I had a revelation about ministering overseas, London to be precise, but since I was very young I didn’t understand so I mentioned it to my Senior Pastor who explained that one day I may be a minister abroad, since then and years after I continued to have dreams of praying, evangelizing, preaching to people and winning souls for God.
As I grew up I had to fend for myself as I was raised from a broken home, I moved to a city called Accra in Ghana and struggling through life and doing all sorts of work as well as going to church as a normal Christian I had another revelation one day, finding myself at a really huge convention where coat hanged, all of a sudden I was wearing the coat and it seemed like I was the one to minister. It was after this revelation and what some ministers and pastors told me that I decided to do God’s work after the revelation and visitation of the Holy Spirit.
I was ushered into ministry by one of my head pastors who made me an overseer of one of his local churches lived a life of a training pastor and a leader until I met my wife and got married around 1996, not knowing that she was the one God was going to use to take me abroad .A year after with the help of my wife’s parent I travelled to the united kingdom. A few years after I got to London around October 2000, I used the trainee I got from my country and started a small ministry with about only three people, with the desire to win more lost souls for the Lord and sharing the Gospel, the members of my ministry increased gradually. Still counting, through thick and thin as well as progressive learning curves, I have been able to set up a church in London and two back in my country in Ghana by god’s grace.
My ministry goal is to expand God’s kingdom both here in London and in Ghana .casting my mind back unto how most of my family members didn’t know God ,I would like to spread the gospel by using every God given gift and talent as well as the help of my leaders. My ambition in life is to be used abundantly for the work of God and also be dead to self, looking unto Jesus alone the author and finisher of my faith .I am mostly identified as a pastor as I have been ordained and sometimes I see myself as a church planter as one of my aims in life and ministry is to plant as many churches as possible. Am in the process of planting three churches and still counting.
The experience in life that prompted me and encouraged me to pursue ministry was the encounter of the Holy Spirit as well as the revelations from pastors and men of God. Aside this I had nothing else to live for except God .With constant challenges like financial support and support from family members and some issues in life , it seemed difficult at first but the help of God ;I was able to pull through up until now. My wife and family have since then become a major pillar of support in my ministry as they encourage me daily to strive harder
A scholarship at Christian Leaders Institute will provide me enough qualifications, motivation, support and knowledge needed to sustain a ministry. This bring me a London Bible School online.
Prayer is a key to unlocking the supernatural blessing God has in store for us .My prayer request is that the ministerial goal and dreams God has placed in our hearts will be achieved and we will fulfil the works of he who sent us .May God bless us all .Shalom.
Lagos Bible School CLI Student Ayodeji Aladenika
My name is Emmanuel Ayodeji Aladenika. I was born in 1972 to a Christian family. I am a chemical engineer and presently living in Lagos, Nigeria with my wife and sons. My late father was a pastor in the apostolic church. Being brought up in a godly home influenced me to develop good morals. I always hear the gospel but did not fully appreciate it. Later in my teenage years I felt Christianity was a bondage that prevented me from having fun, but good to help me get to heaven. I then decided to have a girlfriend to have fun like my other peers but was not fully happy.
I accepted the Lord as my savior after listening to my Dad at an evening family devotion in 1989 when I was deeply convicted of my sins. I later got baptized in water and Holy Spirit through my Dad ministration. Since then I became a lover of God and the hand of God has being upon me for good.
The Lord has being molding and using me to touch lives in diverse ways. I have being involved in youth fellowship leadership from my undergraduate days till now. Love intercessory and teaching ministry. I am an ordained elder in the apostolic church and sent by my church with two elders in 2009 to co-pastor a newly established assembly.
Churches are abundant in Lagos but many Christians have dual lifestyle – church & work. It my dream to influence believers to be practical Christians having the same lifestyle everywhere with the goal of pleasing our Lord and reaching out to the unsaved. I knew from my undergraduate days that I will pursue ministry for I derived great joy doing it and coupled with what the Lord revealed. I have being involved in part time ministry ever since.
There is bit of poverty around which sometimes makes Christians to compromise. I would have loved to be an employer of labour but the Lord is leading me to first eradicate spiritual poverty around. I finished a Lagos Bible school diploma in 2012 and needed to pursue further education in the ministry. I obtained a new Bible school form but opted out since it was not a Lagos Bible school location, it will be difficult to combine with my secular job. A scholarship with CLI will help me to study the bible courses no matter where I am.
The apostolic church has offered me opportunity to minister to the youth in my denomination.
My wife has being very supportive – she is a teacher in children evangelism unit of my church. God has used my father to build me up spiritually- he went to be with the Lord last year. I sensed a calling to go full time. I need your prayers as i proceed further to fulfill the Lord’s will for my life.