Posts by Bruce Snavely
07/07/2019 Rwanda, Fidele, and Renewal
Rwanda is entering a new era of productivity and prestige. Twenty-five years ago nobody would have ventured a Rwandan dollar that the nation would ever come back from near extinction. In the summer of 1994, over a million Rwandan citizens lay slaughtered over the length and breadth of this small African state. Genocide had, in…
Read More05/31/2019 Intentional Multiplication
We are taking a couple of weeks off to celebrate our 41st wedding anniversary which will be this Sunday, June 2! While we are doing some work (as evidenced by this email), we are trying to rest and gain strength for the very busy teaching season that begins in about five weeks. We will…
Read More05/08/2019 Thank You!
One of the things that we get to see all over the world is how thankful the national pastors are for the education that Global Baptist Training Foundation is bringing to them. We often try to tell you about the thankful spirits with which these pastors and pastors’ wives receive training from GBTF professors. The…
Read More04/18/2019 Pastor Shinga Fidele
Let me begin by asking a very simple question. Should churches use their missions money wisely? I’m sure everyone agrees that the answer is yes! Let’s go a step further. If there are numbers of indigenous believers on the ground on any mission field, why would we send a western missionary family halfway around the…
Read More01/27/2019 Togo Graduation
The Togo graduation took place today, and now, after a final meal with our host Sika and our Translator Donald, along with their wives, we are awaiting our flight to Paris and then home. It has been a long two weeks, but I am thankful for what we have seen accomplished in both Liberia and Togo. …
Read More01/20/2019 GBTF in Togo
Greetings from Togo,Today we began our week training pastors in Togo with a visit to two separate churches. I spoke at Maranatha Baptist Church while Greg spoke at Bethany Baptist Church, Pastor Sika’s church. Since Sika traveled with me to the other church to introduce me there, Greg was left on his own at Sika’s…
Read More01/18/2019 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…
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