Christian Leaders Institute

Christian Leaders Institute (CLI), founded in 2001, offers free online religious education.

Christian Leaders Institute was founded by Rev. Henry Reyenga Jr.,Rich DeVos, Sr. and Ron Parr on September 20 of 2001, prompted by the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Reyenga contacted DeVos and Parr to support a freemium model of high-quality ministry training.

Rev. Reyenga had planted churches and worked with the Bible League before co-founding Christian Leaders Institute. He has spoken at various conferences throughout the world, in places like Winebrenner Theologial Seminary.

Dr. David Feddes, previously the English broadcast minister for the Back to God ministries, became the Provost in 2008. Feddes is a PhD graduate from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.

The President of the CLI Board of Trustees is Brian DeCook. He is also the President of Peacefire.

Christian Leaders Institute uses moodle as its digital campus and wordpress as its marketing platform. Their world-headquarters are located in Spring Lake, Michigan. CLI uses moodle in such a way as to include the tracking of quizzes and assignments for the establishment of quality accountability, transcripts, and feedback. Christian Leaders Institute offers over 120 credits of quality religious training that helps reproduce balanced Christianity. One CLI graduate, John Ntui-Abung was published in 2017. In his "acknowledgement" of "The Chaos of the Prosperity Gospel: A Case Study of Two Prominent Nigerian Pastors with Churches over 150 Countries Revealed to Be Spreading Fraudulent Gospels", Ntui-Abung credited CLI's education as correcting his prosperity gospel views in Nigeria.[1]

Christian Leaders Institute is funded by donations. Some donations are for the non-profit mission, while other donations are for services. CLI characterizes themselves as a “generosity-driven” model of ministry training. They offer religious education certificates, diplomas, and degrees. They are incorporated in the states of Illinois, Florida, and Michigan.

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