Grace Zishumba –
“My name is Grace Zishumba and I am Zimbabwean but living in Namibia.
“I grew up in a christian home, being taught to lead a christian life. I then seriously gave my life to serve and labor for the Lord in 2009. In 2012 my husband and I planted a small assembly in the town we live. In that year I was ordained as the Elder of the church.
“My ministry goal is to have an intimate relationship with God and help others also realize that there is a true God and also have a walk with Him (true relationship with God). All what I want to is to let us know who this God is and worship Him in truth and in Spirit. The challenge that I meet was opposition from some Pastors of other churches who did not want another church planted in the town. My church really supported me for I am running with the vision of the church of bringing the gospel to the communities.”
Grace Zishumba Receives a Scholarship
“The scholarship of CLI is very important for my dream because it will help me to be equipped with a skill I did not have. Where I stay there is no bible school, and I only have my mentor. The course so far has equipped me and given me that hunger to stay more in the word. It has opened my eyes to many things that I did not know.
“My family is very supportive of all that I am doing and it also have helped them to grow spiritually.
“My prayer request is that I remain focused on the Lord even as persecutions come.”
Grace Zishumba has dedicated her life to serve the Lord in Namibia. With her husband, Grace Zishumba has planted a church in her town, but she has been unable to obtain good ministry training because of the lack of availability in the area. In addition to that, the pastors in the area resist Grace Zishumba’s efforts because they are against having more churches open in the area. Now Grace Zishumba seeks a scholarship at Christian Leaders Institute so that she can be better equipped to lead the church that she and her husband planted.
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Free Pastor Training – Christian Leaders Institute is seeking to deliver high quality online minister training. For those who finish the free getting started class and are accepted into CLI, you will receive Bible School or Seminary style ministry training, but this training will be delivered online. CLI offers over 20 advanced Bible College courses. One of the courses is “Church and Ministry” Many issues of the day to day work of a pastor are addressed in this minister training course.
We ask students to write a final reflection paper in this Church and Ministry course. See how free pastor training is reflected upon by this Henry Long of Nigeria. 
Henry Long Writes:
“First and foremost, I must thank God for bringing me in contact with CLI. The day I enrolled with CLI marked the beginning of something glorious and beautiful in my life and ministry.
During the course of this free minister training, I have learned so many things and will just briefly highlight some of them:
How to effectively run a small group of volunteers. How to determine the agenda of the group and how the needs of the members of the group can be met.
How to handle grief. This was evident when a particular friend of mine was overwhelmed and she broke down in tears. Before CLI, I would have started saying words like “Don’t cry”, “Don’t shed tears”, but learning the stages of grief and how hot handle the grieving, I was able to handle the friend and at the end of her grieving period, she came to say thank you to me for the way I handle the period.
I learnt that a great leader must always train a successor so the ministry won’t die when the founder goes to the world beyond.
Also, I have realized that the most treasured gift we can ever have as a leader or pastor is the relationship that comes our way every moment, because the way we treat people is a sermon on its own.
One area that I really have great interest in is evangelism. I have personally come to understand that evangelism plays a key part in the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. I love Lee Strobel’s video on the different styles of sharing the gospel. To help me in sharing the gospel the more, I started daily blackberry devotionals that I share with all my contacts and I can say that the Almighty God has been touching souls via that medium.
My understanding of hospitality improved when I went through the Hospitality class session. I now understand that the Jesus some people will only see is the Jesus we show them through the way we treat other people.
On a final note, I feel really satisfied and glad to have enrolled with CLI to receive this free minister training. I can really say that once I thought I knew, but with CLI, I now know better.”
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Ford Johnson –
“I live in Nigeria and doing ministry here is highly competitive especially for starters like us who may not have the fund to start. Nigeria as a country varies in different States and the State where I reside which is Calabar in Cross River State has the highest cost of living and as such it makes it cost expensive for upcoming Ministers like us.
“I had just returned from Libreville and resumed school in Umuahia Abia State Nigeria at Holy Ghost Secondary School. On the 25th of November 1994, I had been longing for something which I personally did not really know, but the only word which I can use to describe it was a vast void. As I walked into the hall of Scripture Union School Fellowship Nigeria that afternoon, I was amazed to see a boy of about my age preaching the gospel and for sure that was my first time of ever seeing that. Within moment I was convicted and I gave my life to Jesus Christ at the age of 14, then I was in my JSS class.
“My ministry dream is to build a Christian center that will center on prayer and the word. It will be like a fellowship center for all churches and all believers. Our meetings will be held during the week and not on a Sunday morning but once a week and a monthly interdenominational outreach program. It will also have an outreach that will major on Evangelism and crusades for rural areas. We will also partner with NGO’s for rural development. However our Vision is to see the body of Christ come to the knowledge that we are one body.”
Ford Johnson Receives a Scholarship
“It will give me a legitimate platform as a minister of the Gospel. And this is what I have longed for, for over ten years. Having the call of God in my life is not enough, but it is important that I undergo training that will enlighten me in discipline, improve my language skills, and give me the ministerial exposure and training I need for proper scriptural exposition. Truthfully, it will set me up and make me ready to serve God and humanity.
“I would like you to pray for me in three things: For God to give me the financial support I need to start, for God to give me the right boldness to preach the end time massages He wants me to preach, and that I will be duly empowered by Him.”
Ford Johnson has desired to follow the call of God to ministry for several years, but has not had the means to do so. Because of various factors in the area where Ford Johnson resides, it is difficult for a new pastor to enter the ministry scene. However, Ford Johnson has not given up his dream of ministry because of this. Ford Johnson knows that God has called him to the ministry field and that he cannot give up that calling. In searching for a means to pursue the calling, Ford Johnson came to Christian Leaders Institute, where a scholarship will give him the training he needs at no cost to him.
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