• Jessica Lee (19, Student, Wellesley College)
    "GLDI has given me a new perspective. I want to live a successful life for God and to be satisfied with all the things God has given to me. I believe that through GLDI, a new generation of leaders can rise up and change the world for God. I now have a vision for the future and the way God will use me not only as a Christian, but also as a Korean-American to change the world for Christ."
  • Mike Yeh (25, Graduate Student, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School)
    "My perspective has totally changed. Since I am a child of the Most High God, the world is my playgrou nd! I realize that I do not have to limit myself geographically. Rather, I am called to go to the ends of the earth. God used GLDI to shape the way I view leadership in the kingdom of God from a global perspective. Wherever He wants me to go, I'll go. He's more than worthy of my life."
  • Esther Cho (19, Student, UCLA)
    "GLDI is a spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical boot camp—it has challenged me, pushing me beyond my limits and my comfort-zone. I have not only been challenged by the multiple speakers but also by my peers, who help me understand what it really means to be brothers and sisters in Christ. Because of GLDI I have been exposed to the problems of the Christian faith and what it has been reduced to in the past 2,000 years. I have been convicted to put into action the knowledge I have gained so that I can truly become a catalyst of change in this world."
  • Sam Han (19, Student, UC San Diego)
    "At GLDI, I was able to experience new and fresh relationships with others and personally define my own vision and calling. Jesus has shown me His mercy and His promises through the lives of the many speakers and visionaries who spoke powerful truths into our lives. He has given me new strength and life through the encouragements of my fellow brothers and sisters. He has given me hope by His word." (full testimony)
  • Elllen Eun (20, Student, University of Pennsylvania)
    "GLDI has truly been the most challenging and eye-opening journey of my life. It was a time when my weaknesses were exposed, my core beliefs shaken, my knowledge and scope of life broadened, and a time where I was able to network with brilliant leaders, staff and potential global leaders of our generation. My valuable experience at GLDI was incomparable to any prestigious internship or luxurious vacation I could ever go on." (full testmony)
  • Solomon Lee (19, Student, Stanford University)
    "GLDI is focused on teaching us the truth about Jesus, and opening our eyes to the larger community around us. Do not misunderstand me when I say GLDI is teaching the truth. I have been challenged to reconsider everything I have taken for granted about Christianity both as a way of life and a social institution. GLDI is breaking the indoctrination I have received from the secular world and all its assumptions about Christianity that I had not taken seriously in the past. In this manner, I am learning the truth."
  • Paul Jeon (27, Ph.D. student, Catholic University of America)
    “At the outset of the program the Lord seemed to be impressing upon me Ephesians 3:20-21 (“Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine …”); and, indeed, through the staff and speakers, through the peers and programs, God enlarged my vision of who He is and what He's accomplishing in the world for His glory, such that my mind and heart were captured by the burning passion not to waste this life but to live it entirely for the spread of the gospel and advancement of the Kingdom." (full testimony)

 


"For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come." -I Timothy 4:8