Liberia

It is now just two weeks until our classes begin in Liberia.  And there is something new!  A brand new class!  While the existing class will continue, a new class is starting with an entirely new group of pastors, many of them new church planters!  In just 18 months, we have seen over 100 new…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Today is the final day of class in Gbarnga, Liberia, and as we close it out I want to share what took place yesterday at the close of the class day.  Pastor Togba showed me a tentative list of those he and others had chosen to be the first Liberian trainers.  The choices of these…

We have finished up our second full class day.  Yesterday we had 78 pastors.  Today we topped out at 82.  The room doesn’t have a chair left and it is truly packed out!  This is the largest class of pastors we have taught to date.  The men who have come this week clearly want the…

This week we have seen the Liberian ministry take a giant leap.  Let me explain.  Just one year ago this month we had our first classroom here.  It was good by any objective standard: 62 men and one woman finished their first course of this seven course curriculum.  Not bad, I thought for the first…

Just a quick note to send a video of the pastors receiving their long-awaited study Bibles today! I’m sure Bruce will write soon. Pray for Liberia!! Bruce and Grace Snavely Global Baptist Training Foundation