Posts by Bruce Snavely
04/18/24 Powerful Results for GBTF in Africa Increasing
Global Baptist Training Foundation exists to take theological training to pastors and church leaders with cost to them. The layers of results from that training continues to expand rapidly. We have now received a report for the first quarter of 2024 from East Africa where GBTF-trained pastor are currently planting 300 new churches. These churches…
Read More04/03/24 The Bottom Line
Global Baptist Training Foundation exists to take solid, Biblical, theological training to nationals around the world and then to develop nationals to train other nationals creating an intentional multiplication. So what is the bottom line? It is not to just have more highly trained pastors and church leaders, although this is a great asset in…
Read More03/27/24 GBTF From Africa to Asia
Several exciting things are happening this week with Global Baptist Training Foundation in several parts of the world. Myanmar First, we have a class that has wrapped up in Myanmar. As you may remember, we spent ten years training pastors in Myanmar in several locations. A civil war and military coup have made…
Read More03/17/24 Tanzania Trainer Training
Last week, Bruce traveled to Tanzania (along with two of our sons-in-law) to train Global Baptist Training Foundation national trainers. These are pastors who have completed our GBTF curriculum and now wish to train others through GBTF. We had 20 trainers from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, and Ethiopia, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of Congo. The…
Read More03/08/24 Life and Death for GBTF Trainers in Sudan
Gilbert Okecha is a very active national trainer for Global Baptist Training Foundation. He trains pastors in both Uganda and the Sudan. Sudan is a war-torn country, and most of the population has fled to the south to permanent refugee camps in the Obongi district . That’s where Gilbert and our new Sudanese trainer, Samuel,…
Read More03/02/24 Mozambique Class a Success in Hot Season
Fidele Shinga, East Africa Director for Global Baptist Training Foundation, recently had our first-ever class in Portuguese-speaking Mozambique! The class turned out to be scheduled in this country’s hot season. This hindered several pastors from attending. Even with this, we had nearly 40 who completed the course attendance and other requirements. The next class…
Read More02/04/24 Busy Spring
The mission of Global Baptist Training Foundation has always been to train nationals to train nationals! To see this vision become reality has been the most exciting ministry imaginable. Spring, 2024, illustrates how God is working In addition to Bruce’s trainer training in Liberia in January, Fidele Shinga has just completed a class in Ethiopia with…
Read More02/28/24 Uganda Doesn’t Disappoint
Bruce is on his way back home from a 10-day trip to Uganda. His mission: to train Global Baptist Training Foundation national trainers. Mission: accomplished! In all, this training segment saw nine national trainers (two from Sudan and seven from Uganda) receive further and deeper training as well as equipment and materials to make them…
Read More01/23/24 Focus on Guinea
Guinea was not on the list of countries where Global Baptist Training Foundation had plans to extend our training program for national pastors and church leaders. But, pastors from Guinea began to cross the border to attend classes in neighboring Liberia. GBTF work in Liberia is extensive. We have had two large graduating classes,…
Read More01/18/24 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
As usual, this is an extremely busy season for Global Baptist Training Foundation. Here are some pictures with brief captions to catch you up!! Class awards in Tanzania. This course was taught last week by Fidele Shinga who is in Ethiopia teaching now. Pictures of Ethiopia to follow!! Bruce is teaching a group of about…
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