Rwanda

Rwanda 2018 has begun!  I always dread the long flights, but that part is over and my first day is about complete.  I began the day by preaching in the morning service for Pastor Fidele’s,  my translator, church.  I preached from Mark 5 on the story of Jairus.  His story shows us what genuine believing looks like. …

Bruce departs today for the seventh class in Kigali Rwanda.  55-65 pastors will then be just one class from completing our level one curriculum (equivalent to the Bible and theological portion of an undergraduate Bible college education)!  That last class may be as early as October, 2018.   After that, the pastors will have the choice…

We have told you about the exciting week of training last week in Rwanda.  Ten of the most capable pastors from the past five years of pastor training, have been chosen to take  more in depth training to be able to teach our GBTF materials themselves!  We will be able to hold regional classes throughout…

We always take some time to reflect when we return from one of our global classrooms.  We would like to share some of our afterthoughts about Rwanda! Youth While our primary mission is to train pastors, and our primary resources support this mission, we also believe in training pastors’ wives.  And the next tier is…

GBTF swerved into Rwanda’s spiritual future today!  This marks the day we began the process of training the brightest of the local pastors to train their own nation with the materials of Global Baptist Training Foundation.   Our originating vision for GBTF has anticipated this day in the process of training Rwandans.  It was truly…

As we come to the middle of this week, I wanted to catch you up on a few of the pictures you might be looking at accompanying today’s blog.  On Sunday when we participated in the outdoor meeting outside of Butare, the road leading to the location looked like this coming to the worship site.  It…

As I begin the pastors’ class this morning, I’m reminded that this year marks a genuine milestone in the history of GBTF in Rwanda.  Yesterday, about four hours away  outside of Butare, where our first teacher/ intern for the Baptist secondary schools lived, we participated in a region-wide outdoor prayer and thanksgiving service for Rwanda.  This was kind of significant for…

Rwandan Wrap-Up for Week One of Africa Classes. Grace has told you of the new plans for next week’s classes here in Africa.  Akeem left this morning by private car for the Congo class. The class is expected to be a large one, possibly well over a hundred pastors from a hundred mile radius of Bagira! On Monday I will…

Pastor Mpakaniye Boniface He is from the South province and pastors the South Province Baptist Church.  He has been here for about 2 years. He previously led the Mwendo Baptist Church in the village of Mwendo for four years.  His entire family and extended family fled to the Congo during the genocide of 1994 and…