Tanzania
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…
Read More12/15/25 Classes in December
While we are getting ready to slow down for a couple of weeks to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, Global Baptist Training Foundation national trainers have stayed busy in the month of December. Here are just a few of the classes from this month: Northern Burundi: This class was held in Musema. The…
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 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 More06/27/25 Life-Giving Water is Flowing in South Sudan
***As we begin this very exciting email, we ask for prayer for Pastor Ntare Rogers and another Ugandan pastor who were involved in a motorcycle crash yesterday. Bruce was on the phone with Ntare just an hour before the crash. [We were also able to talk to him in the hospital. We even were able…
Read More06/19/25 Ghana and Niger
Global Baptist Training Foundation continues the march toward covering all of Africa! In September Fidele Shinga, GBTF African Director, has confirmed classes will begin in Ghana. In October, Niger will be the site of a new class! Watch for pictures and reports from these countries in coming weeks. Meanwhile, our national trainers continue to…
Read More05/29/25 Bibles, Training…
Pastor Brasswell Nkhonjrra, Global Baptist Training Foundation South Africa Director, recently traveled from his home country of Malawi to neighboring Tanzania to teach a large class of pastors and church leaders in Kyela. You’ll have to look at a map of Africa to see why Brasswell was closer than our Tanzanian trainers to this remote…
Read More01/17/25 A Great Start to 2025
We are thrilled to report that in the past two weeks, Global Baptist Training Foundation held five classes in 5 countries: Rwanda, Liberia, Tanzania, Burundi, and Congo. Hundreds of pastors have added to their course of training while working toward graduation. What a joy! In Liberia, Shinga Fidele, GBTF African Director, taught a…
Read More11/13/24 Buildings, Bibles, and Cars
BUILDINGS One of the great additions to our Global Baptist Training Foundation expansion has been the ability, with donor funding, to build buildings that will belong to the local church plants but also serve as GBTF training centers. In 2023, we built a building in Guinea, just north of Liberia. We will have the privilege…
Read More11/06/24 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 More