Central African Republic
05/11/26 Beginning to Launch
Global Baptist Training Foundation began in 2011 as a dream to take college level theological training to pastors and church leaders in developing nations. God has grown that dream into a movement that is impacting 32 nations with the gospel of Jesus Christ. How does it work? Beginning: National pastors and church leaders are…
Read More05/02/26 GBTF and Women’s Training
In 2012, Grace taught the first group of women in Southeast Asia. The next year, she began teaching women in Africa as well. As she learned to understand the special needs of these women in cultures where women are often undervalued, she created a curriculum to teach women how to study the Bible in…
Read More04/27/26 First Quarter 2026
Global Baptist Training Foundation has many churches and individuals that give regularly, often sacrificially, to fund the mission of training nationals to train nationals with solid, Biblical theological education. Each quarter, we like to update our donors, and those following the work God is doing through GBTF, with results that encourage and motivate us…
Read More10/14/25 GBTF 3rd Quarter 2025
We have received the statistics from our GBTF network in Africa for the third quarter of 2025. This report will give you information about the results of our joint efforts from July through September only! This chart says it all! We have 1,127 churches reporting. We have almost 1,800 churches that have…
Read More08/28/25 Training, Training, Training
We are thrilled to report a couple of different types of training going on right now! First, Fidele Shinga, GBTF African Director, continues to open new countries with classes and to also teach in those nations where trainers are still being trained. This week, he completed two classes in Central African Republic. This class contained…
Read More07/09/25 On Mission
As usual, there is a lot of activity! Classes, trainer training, church plants, building repairs, well building, and Bible distribution are all under way in many nations across Africa. GBTF’s philosophy of training nationals allows them to be equipped to do all of the above AND to multiply their efforts in the lives of…
Read More05/02/25 This Week in GBTF
This week, Fidele Shinga wrapped up classes in Central African Republic. This class had 77 who completed the course requirements. Many of these were women because GBTF currently has no women’s ministry in this area. Many national pastors also added classes to their transcript toward graduation. Fidele says this class was very exciting, and…
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…
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