06/17/26 The Life of a Trainer

We get pictures and videos every day documenting Global Baptist Training Foundation’s multiplication.   We want to share a few recent reports! This video is from the travels of Ntare Rogers, GBTF African IT Director, and Brian Atusasire, Assistant IT Director.  They are traveling to distribute phones to trainers and church planters and to train…

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05/22/26 Intentional Multiplication Works!

Since the inception of Global Baptist Training Foundation in 2011, we have continually seen how multiplication of effort to spread the gospel is so much more effective than addition.   In other words, by intentionally multiplying effort to spread the gospel by training national pastors and church leaders to train other national pastors and church…

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05/11/26 Beginning to Launch

Global Baptist Training Foundation (GBTF) Central African Republic Graduation Class April 2026

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…

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04/27/26 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…

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04/11/26 South Sudan, Malawi, and Children in Rwanda

South Sudan is inhabited by people who fled war in Sudan.   We have shared many stories from South Sudan (refugees, wells, poverty, pallets of clothes, etc). Now the fighting is moving from Sudan down into South Sudan.  In the north, the fighting is heavy, and people are fleeing into hiding. This includes many of…

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03/29/2026 Training in Congo, Building in South Sudan, and Women’s Training in Liberia

Global Baptist Training Foundation (GBTF) Congo class of 56 pastors in attended

Training continues around the continent of Africa.  Recently, Jackson Katebera, Global Baptist Training Foundation National Coordinator for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), traveled to Katanga in South Kivu County.   Jackson says that, despite the severe rain every day, 56 pastors attended and completed several courses in a 10 day period. (We often complete multiple classes…

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02/25/26 Classes and Bibles

GBTF Uganda Group Very First Bibles February 2026

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…

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01/08/26 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…

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12/28/25 South Sudan

If you watch the news at all, you’ve heard about the war  in Sudan.  It is brutal and merciless.  Since 2023, over 1.2 million people have immigrated from war-torn Sudan into South Sudan.  Most of these people arrive in South Sudan with only the clothes on their backs.   We are thrilled to report that Global Baptist…

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12/03/25 Kenya and South Sudan

At almost any given time, Global Baptist Training Foundation theological training classes are ongoing in countries across the continent of Africa!  The class pictured here was in Kenya and ended about a week ago.  Among this group is almost undoubtedly one or two future trainers.  Trainers are those who have completed the GBTF curriculum and…

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