Posts by Bruce Snavely
09/06/26 A Liberia Church Plant Story
Bruce is in Liberia along with our son-in-law, Lex! Yesterday James Togba, GBTF West Africa Director, drove them two hours over rough and washed out roads to visit a remote village where we have a new GBTF church plant. The pastor has been trained through Global Baptist Training Foundation’s theological training program for nationals. …
Read More09/02/26 Classes and Liberia
As always, Global Baptist Training Foundation classes are ongoing in many locations. James Togba, GBTF West Africa Director, has just completed teaching classes in Ghana. Over 40 pastors and pastors’ wives attended the classes in Bibliology, Christology, and Anthropology. The reports state that the students were highly motivated and asking for their next classes…
Read More08/08/26 Rwanda Reflections and Forging Ahead
We have a few closing thoughts on our recent Rwanda trip. First, we were privileged to have 8 members of our family serving on mission! Nothing could be more encouraging than to see our family with a heart for training nationals globally and the mission of GBTF! Our daughter, two sons-in-law, and five grandchildren…
Read More08/08/26 Rwanda Village Ministry July 2026
Three years ago, Global Baptist Training Foundation took a team from Two Cities Church in Winston Salem, North Carolina, to Tanzania to work alongside GBTF church plants for a few days of focused evangelistic outreach. Last year, a Two Cities team worked alongside church plants in Uganda. This year, we had the privilege of having…
Read More07/26/26 Rwanda 2026 Overview
We have just returned form am amazing ten day trip to Rwanda! Our Global Baptist Training Foundation trips usually are multi-faceted, and this trip was no exception. We had a training class (Apologetics) for about 155 of our GBTF leadership, trainers, and church planters. In addition, we had a team from Two Cities Church…
Read More07/11/26 Spring 2026 Quarterly Report
We have just received the report from 1,551 of the churches started by GBTF-trained pastors all over Africa. This spring, we actually had 362 new churches beginning, bringing the total now to almost 2,100 churches started through GBTF. We are constantly working to get better communication into the hands of remote and isolated pastors, but…
Read More06/30/26 Death of a GBTF Team Member
Sad news from Sierra Leone. It is with deep sadness to let GBTF family know that Rev. Augustin KARGBO [pictured here with Fidele Shinga] the GBTF SIERRA LEONE National coordinator has gone to be with the Lord since yesterday. Please pray for his family, the churches in Sierra Leone and GBTF in general. This was a hard…
Read More06/27/26 Church Plants June 2026
If you follow Global Baptist Training Foundation, you already know that theological training delivered to national pastors and church leaders yields amazing spiritual fruit. Not only is GBTF helping to ground nationals in solid, Biblical theology, we are also practically equipping these church leaders in: pastoral ethics and administration, expository preaching and teaching of God’s…
Read More06/17/26 The Life of a Trainer
We get pictures and videos every day documenting Global Baptist Training Foundation’s multiplication. We want to share a few recent reports! This video is from the travels of Ntare Rogers, GBTF African IT Director, and Brian Atusasire, Assistant IT Director. They are traveling to distribute phones to trainers and church planters and to train…
Read More06/05/26 Training Leads to Church Plants
Global Baptist Training Foundation exists to take college level theological and practical training to nationals who will then train others. Classes like these – large and small are ongoing almost constantly in over 30 nations! This is a recent class in Western Uganda. We have shared this picture recently but wanted to contrast that…
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