Who We Are - GBTF

Who We Are

Dr. Bruce Snavely

As the founder and director of Global Baptist Training Foundation, Bruce sees GBTF as the fulfillment of many years of ministry which includes church planting, leading churches, and Christian Education. Bruce holds a Ph.D in Historical Theology from the University of Bristol:UK, is the author of three books. His third book called "Indigenous" gives readers an inside look at what GBTF has seen God accomplish over the last ten years and what the plan includes for the next decade. His autobiography, “All the Way Home” tells the incredible story of God’s amazing grace in his life. He loves the rigor of training nationals and also the respites of loving his wife, children, and grandchildren when home from the field.

bsnavely@gbtf.net

Bruce Snavely, Global Baptist Training Foundation (GBTF)

Books available on Amazon:

All The Way Home

Indigenous: Missions Aimed at Training National Pastors Globally

Isaac Backus and the Second Reformation: Baptists in Colonial America

Grace Snavely

Grace Snavely has been a ministry wife, educator, and is a partner in the foundation. Grace holds a Master of Education degree from Liberty University, and has completed significant additional graduate work in Medieval English Studies at Harvard University. Grace is an accomplished Bible Teacher, teaches woman’s classrooms through GBTF, and conducts a local Bible Study when stateside. She loves her children, revels in spending time with her 12 grandchildren, and enjoys spending time near the ocean.

gsnavely@gbtf.net

Global Baptist Training Foundation enjoys the participation of several other academically and spiritually qualified instructors who also conduct travelling courses for the foundation. If you are interested in partnering with GBTF as an instructor, we would love to meet you. Send a resume to gsnavely@gbtf.net.

Our Mission

Global Baptist Training Foundation currently operates in 21 countries (Goal for 2032: In all 54 African countries) on three continents where GBTF takes college-level theological training to pastors in developing nations without charge.

Each year, hundreds of pastors across the world receive on-site instruction in theological disciplines and practical studies. A total of fourteen courses make up two levels of training. Each class offers a certificate of completion after attendance and assessment requirements are met. A second level of training offers additional in-depth studies in preaching and Biblical exposition. The entire program offers a diploma after all fourteen courses are completed.

Upon being trained, every pastor is taught to become a trainer. Global Baptist Training Foundation focuses on raising up national trainers in every country where it presently serves who train others on a larger scale. Graduates are then supported to start new churches.

Because nationals already know the language, understand their own cultures, and love their own people, the results of this method are astounding, and have raised up hundreds of new churches across Africa, Myanmar, Mexico, and Haiti, and have evangelized thousands of new believers in Christ. Will you join us in the great mission of training the nationals?

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