Posts by Bruce Snavely
01/18/2019 Liberia Graduation Day
It is difficult to express the emotions in the room in Gbarnga, Liberia, today as 64 pastors earned their certificates for yet another course – Homiletics (sermon building)! There is, of course, great joy over a task accomplished. Relief that a very grueling week, with long hours of class in extreme heat, has ended. There…
Read More01/16/2019 What Nationals Can Do
This is our fifth day in Liberia, and the blessings of training national church leaders just keep rolling in. On Sunday my church planting partner Greg Dixon spoke at the church at which I spoke last year in September. This church was started by one of our pastor students just one year ago and…
Read More01/09/2019 Happy New “Let’s Get To Work” Year
Greetings from sunny Florida! After a great few days in New Hampshire with our entire family, we have been hard at work! Bruce has almost completed his newest book, “Indigenous,” we have the year ahead planned and translations in several languages are underway. It is going to be a great year!Bruce leaves tomorrow, on his…
Read More10/23/2018 First Uganda Class Underway
The first Global Baptist Training Foundation class in Uganda is underway. For the first time, we have missionaries as our hosts. Russ and Sylvia Daniels have worked tirelessly for months to prepare a place for the pastors to stay. They completely reconstructed a barn and housed it with showers and triple bunk beds outfitted with…
Read More10/19/2018 Another GBTF Milestone: Rwanda October 2018
Today, Friday, October 19, was a banner day for Global Baptist Training Foundation and for more than 50 Rwandan pastors. Today, in addition to a completion certificate for our “Evangelism and Church Planting” course, most of them received a graduation certificate for “GBTF Level One Theological Studies!” These pastors have successfully completed all our level…
Read More10/15/2018 Huge Announcement from Rwanda
Bruce has sent a video introducing this important and exciting class in Kigali, Rwanda. Here is a link to that video: In the video, Bruce mentions a big announcement. This is amazing! For seven years, Bruce has discipled the pastors of Rwanda. The materials have been translated by Pastor Shinga Fidele. Fidele…
Read More09/28/2018 Mexico Graduation 2018
This morning when I got up I had that feeling again. It was the feeling of finishing; the last day of our classroom here in Oaxaca. I’ve had this feeling many times, and understand it’s mixed with both joy and a bit of sadness in leaving the students. In the course of a week, you…
Read More09/27/2018 Mexico Class Update
We are well into our first classroom here in Oaxaca. This is our first classroom in the country, and this initial experience is certainly a unique one. We have a much smaller, compact classroom with about nineteen pastors and six women who serve as single missionaries around this greater area or are serving local churches…
Read More09/17/2018 Mexico is One Week Away
We had a great time with the Bay State Baptist Church in Boston yesterday! What a great missions church! We were so encouraged by the response!We leave for Mexico on Saturday, and classes begin there on Monday morning! We are looking forward to extending the training of Global Baptist Training Foundation to yet another group…
Read More08/31/2018 Liberia for Christ: Working the Plan
Today is the final day of class in Gbarnga, Liberia, and as we close it out I want to share what took place yesterday at the close of the class day. Pastor Togba showed me a tentative list of those he and others had chosen to be the first Liberian trainers. The choices of these…
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