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The History of Christian Leaders Institute
Christian Leaders Institute official name is Christian Leaders. This ministry was developed to reproduce Christian leaders everywhere through a pattern of daily discipleship in a range of relational connections. This model was developed through the partnership of Rev. Steve Elzinga and Rev. Henry Reyenga beginning in 1994. They were personally mentored by Rich DeVos Sr., who taught them the skills and techniques necessary to train new Christian leaders. Steve and Henry served at the Bible League, where they learned about reproducible Bible culture, home discipleship, and church planting dynamics that are transferable everywhere. It was in this partnership that Steve and Henry formed LifeNet 21, which merged with the Bible League in 1998. In 2002, Henry left the Bible League International to form Christian Leaders, while Steve remained at the Bible League as the head of North American ministries and International Ministry Director of Malaysia.
Rev. Reyenga extensively studied the use of the Internet as a tool for reproducing Christian Leaders. Christian Leaders was founded as a ministry that brought mentorship to church planters based on a home-discipleship operating system. But Reyenga and his team kept running into a wall: these leaders needed advanced ministry training.
Finally, his study of cutting-edge Internet technologies brought him to begin Christian Leaders Institute (CLI). CLI began offering Internet classes in 2006 and brought advanced training to bi-vocational pastors and church planters in the United States and Canada. Since 2006, Christian Leaders Institute has grown quickly. Hundreds of students have received training!
CLI is led by an outstanding team. Leading on the academic front is Dr. David Feddes. For 16 years, Dr. Feddes served as a broadcast minister for the Back to God radio program, reaching people in more than 50 countries. He also worked with Crossroad Bible Institute, providing biblical distance education to thousands of people in prison. At CLI Dr. Feddes is leading the charge to bring advanced ministry training to aspiring Christian leaders everywhere, in partnership with local mentors. Dr. Feddes leads a team of 12 professors and is recruiting more.
Christian Leaders has launched Cristway.com as an internet tool that will help Christian Leaders communicate and bless each other:
Who Should Join
This includes but not limited to: pastors, associate pastors, youth pastors, church planter, non-fiction Christian book authors or bloggers, chaplains, bishops, denominational leaders, elders, deacons, apostles, ministry training students, retired pastors, worship leaders, missionaries, donors to Christian non-profits, ministry training teachers, small group leaders, Church leaders or staff leaders, bi-vocational church leaders, and evangelists.