Tanzania
11/06/24 Stories from Tanzania
Last week in Tanzania, Global Baptist Training Foundation joined forces with a team from Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The team did street and home evangelism alongside pastors, leaders and members of two GBTF church plants – Mount Faraja Baptist Church and Emmanuel Baptist Church, both in the greater Dar es Salaam…
Read More11/01/24 Amazing News from Tanzania
Our GBTF team and a group from Two Cities Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, have just completed a week of exciting ministry in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania! During the week, Bruce and Fidele, GBTF African Director, continued training a group of Tanzanian national trainers. We were able to take iPhones, projectors, shirts, business cards, and…
Read More10/18/24 More Signs of Growth
There was a time when we held 8-10 Global Baptist Training Foundation classes per year and were overjoyed. Now we have that many classes in a month. Pictured here are just two current classes: Western Rwanda and Kyela, Tanzania. The Western Rwanda class is taught by Pastor Francois, the brother of Fidele Shinga! This class…
Read More10/12/24 GBTF New Babies – Physical and Spiritual
We are so excited to see Global Baptist Training Foundation growing in many ways – new countries, new classes, new staff positions, and new babies! Brite Atusasire, GBTF Trainer and church planter in Uganda, and his wife, Mercy, welcomed their first child last week. Truth Malawi is also the first grandchild for Naboth (GBTF East…
Read More09/24/24 Classes, Bibles, and Surgery
We have always believed that Global Baptist Training Foundation has the best donors in the world! The past couple of weeks have again shown this to be true. Here are some of the things our GBTF donors have done: Patrick Walyaula’s surgery was paid by a GBTF donor. We are thrilled that the surgery was…
Read More07/19/24 2nd Quarter Report – Part 1
We are beginning to get reports from the church plants that have been started by GBTF-trained pastors for the second quarter of 2024. While the results are incomplete, we could not wait to share these initial numbers. We will update again as more reports come in. This chart indicates that just 100 of…
Read More06/06/24 Classes, classes, classes
Summer is not a time to take a break for Global Baptist Training Foundation. We often say we are in a period of intentional and intense multiplication. For example, here is just a partial list of classes being taught this month! Everything from Interpretation of Scripture to higher level courses like Soteriology are…
Read More04/18/24 Powerful Results for GBTF in Africa Increasing
Global Baptist Training Foundation exists to take theological training to pastors and church leaders with cost to them. The layers of results from that training continues to expand rapidly. We have now received a report for the first quarter of 2024 from East Africa where GBTF-trained pastor are currently planting 300 new churches. These churches…
Read More03/17/24 Tanzania Trainer Training
Last week, Bruce traveled to Tanzania (along with two of our sons-in-law) to train Global Baptist Training Foundation national trainers. These are pastors who have completed our GBTF curriculum and now wish to train others through GBTF. We had 20 trainers from Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, and Ethiopia, Burundi, and Democratic Republic of Congo. The…
Read More01/18/24 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
As usual, this is an extremely busy season for Global Baptist Training Foundation. Here are some pictures with brief captions to catch you up!! Class awards in Tanzania. This course was taught last week by Fidele Shinga who is in Ethiopia teaching now. Pictures of Ethiopia to follow!! Bruce is teaching a group of about…
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