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02/25/26 Classes and Bibles
We ask for your prayer for a fundraiser being held Friday and Saturday of this week that will raise funding for Bibles for Africa. Generous GBTF donors have donated a huge houseful of a collector’s inventory. With the help of Grace’s amazing Bible study group of ladies, we will be selling a garage full…
Read More01/31/26 Congo, Mozambique, Zambia, and IT Training
As usual, there is so much happening in Global Baptist Training Foundation around Africa! First, we have a number of new churches beginning all around Africa now. One of these new church plants is in Zambia!! Add all new church plants to your prayer list, and we will have updates in the future about many of…
Read More01/08/26 To God Be the Glory!
As we enter 2026, let us share what God has done through Global Baptist Training Foundation in 2025 through training nationals to train nationals. Classes: National trainers have held about 200 classes in 2025. With an average of 50 students in each class, that means that 10,000 pastors and church leaders had GBTF theological training…
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 More09/05/25 GBTF Now in Ghana
Global Baptist Training Foundation is constantly growing and expanding in several ways! First, our 162 trainers are spreading out in their own countries training many others!!! When we get pictures and videos, we love to pass them on to you!! This class in Mbarara, Uganda, is taught by Naboth Atusasire, GBTF East Africa…
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 More05/20/25 Sierra Leone, Buildings, Evangelism, Training
Add another country to the list of nations where Global Baptist Training Foundation trains national pastors and church leaders – Sierra Leone!! Fidele Shinga, GBTF African Director, Philip Willie, GBTF West Africa Director, and James Togba, GBTF West Africa Field Representative, traveled to Sierra Leone to start classes in two separate locations. They were met…
Read More04/20/25 Lots of Good News!
We are thrilled to report that our trainer’s family whose house was hit by a bomb in the crossfire of the civil war in the DRC (Congo) are beginning to leave the hospital. These pictures are in the hospital and will show the conditions there! The hospital would not allow any of them to…
Read More04/10/25 Urgent Need
The ongoing civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo has once again come to the doorstep of our Global Baptist Training Foundation family. One of our trainers, who is also planting a church, fell in the crossfire between the Congolese government soldiers and the rebel militia. A bomb landed on the house of…
Read More03/21/25 More updates
This class in Eswatini has now wrapped up. Please watch the brief video of the thank you from Eswatini (Swaziland). This is GBTF’s first class in South Africa, but it will certainly not be the last. We expect great multiplication in South Africa in the next couple of years. The class in South Kivu…
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