Posts by Bruce Snavely
01/29/25 Oops! We were wrong!!
As we begin 2025, we have been reflecting on 2024 and what God has done through the nationals trained by Global Baptist Training Foundation. What an amazing year we have just completed. But, we made an error last year in reporting results from our church plants! We only got reports from the…
Read More01/17/25 A Great Start to 2025
We are thrilled to report that in the past two weeks, Global Baptist Training Foundation held five classes in 5 countries: Rwanda, Liberia, Tanzania, Burundi, and Congo. Hundreds of pastors have added to their course of training while working toward graduation. What a joy! In Liberia, Shinga Fidele, GBTF African Director, taught a…
Read More12/29/24 End of the Year Giving
With just a couple of days left in 2024, we wanted to share our End-of-Year brochure. The outstanding feature of this brochure is the graphs that show growth in every area. Would you consider an end of year donation to set GBTF up for the coming year of even more growth? As a registered 501(c)3…
Read More12/26/24 Good News for the End of 2024
With all the bad news in the world, Global Baptist Training Foundation would love to share some good news!! First, we are so excited to introduce Succeeded Snavely Shinga, newborn daughter of Fidele Shinga and his wife, Alice! Succeeded was born last week and was 5 weeks early! She had some breathing issues and…
Read More11/23/24 The Cost of Training
Fidele Shinga held a class last week in Western Rwanda. Fidele is a tireless leader and trainer and is an excellent teacher and motivator. Fidele has sent three three amazing stories from this class that show how important Global Baptist Training Foundation training is to these national pastors and church leaders. Pastor Fidele Uzabakiriho rode…
Read More11/13/24 Buildings, Bibles, and Cars
BUILDINGS One of the great additions to our Global Baptist Training Foundation expansion has been the ability, with donor funding, to build buildings that will belong to the local church plants but also serve as GBTF training centers. In 2023, we built a building in Guinea, just north of Liberia. We will have the privilege…
Read More11/06/24 Stories from Tanzania
Last week in Tanzania, Global Baptist Training Foundation joined forces with a team from Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The team did street and home evangelism alongside pastors, leaders and members of two GBTF church plants – Mount Faraja Baptist Church and Emmanuel Baptist Church, both in the greater Dar es Salaam…
Read More11/01/24 Amazing News from Tanzania
Our GBTF team and a group from Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have just completed a week of exciting ministry in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania! During the week, Bruce and Fidele, GBTF African Director, continued training a group of Tanzanian national trainers. We were able to take iPhones, projectors, shirts, business cards, and…
Read More10/18/24 More Signs of Growth
There was a time when we held 8-10 Global Baptist Training Foundation classes per year and were overjoyed. Now we have that many classes in a month. Pictured here are just two current classes: Western Rwanda and Kyela, Tanzania. The Western Rwanda class is taught by Pastor Francois, the brother of Fidele Shinga! This class…
Read More10/24/24 Northern Uganda Church Plant
We are thrilled to highlight Faith Baptist Church in northern Uganda. This year alone, Global Baptist Training Foundation trained pastors have started 455 church plants. This brings to almost 1,100 church plants through Global Baptist Training Foundation and the nationals working with GBTF. This church, Faith Baptist Church, was planted in 2023. Pastor Peter…
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