Uganda
09/22/23 A Very Busy Week!!
A lot is going on this week with Global Baptist Training Foundation. When we talk about intentional multiplication, this email will show you just how wide and quickly that multiplication is taking place with training, new trainers, church plants, and people coming to the Lord and being baptized. LIBERIA Bruce is in Liberia giving advanced…
Read More09/04/23 National Training Nationals
Global Baptist Training Foundation’s classes around the world bring college level theological training to pastors and church leaders who have no access to or ability to pay for such education. Most of the donors who fund the GBTF training have caught a vision for what is possible when you equip, motivate, and mobilize indigenous trainers…
Read More07/30/23 Uganda Graduation
We had a second graduation last week in Uganda. While this was a smaller graduation than Tanzania, it was just as meaningful. We had several testimonies from men who had prayed for training and see GBTF as the answer to that prayer. Several of these pastors, including Gilbert Ochecka (see attached video) and Pastor Naboth…
Read More06/25/23 GBTF Work Going Forward Across Africa
We are thrilled at what GBTF-trained nationals are doing all over the continent of Africa. Global Baptist Training Foundation’s mission is to train nationals to train nationals. We call this intentional multiplication. We train one pastor thoroughly and watch him go out to train others, plant new churches with pastors who are GBTF trained as…
Read More03/12/23 Uganda Class Completion
The GBTF classes in Uganda have wrapped up. These were the final two classes in our curriculum. Most of these 50 pastors will graduate in July. To say they are excited is an understatement! Now Dr Bruce Snavely and Dr Larry Bazer are on to Tanzania where this week, the pastors will also finish two…
Read More03/08/23 GBTF Reaches Controlled Access Country Through Trained Nationals
God has been doing amazing things lately through Global Baptist Training Foundation. We are currently finishing up a class in Uganda. About 3 years ago, we had a pastor come to this class out of a controlled access country. He has come back each year and continues to bring other pastors. We are not going…
Read More3/6/23 Uganda and Beyond
Bruce is in Uganda with the largest group of pastors ever in this East African nation. Both he and Dr. Larry Bazer have travelled to Uganda to teach, and next week they will travel on to Tanzania for another week of classes. Next week, Fidèle will teach in Malawi followed by a week in Zimbabwe, a brand…
Read More11/01/2021 Uganda Graduation
We completed our classroom in Entebbe last week. It was a productive week in every way. Friendships were renewed, new relationships were begun, and two new classes were completed in the training of these Ugandan pastors. It is the rainy season in Uganda, but we only had rain early in the mornings. Afternoons and evenings…
Read More10/21/2021 Uganda Class and the Importance of National Hosts
Ugandan pastors are nearing the end of a week in which they will complete two classes – Pastoral Administration taught by Dr. Larry Bazer and Acts taught by Dr. Bruce Snavely. This has been another big step forward for a group of pastors who have previously had little to no ability to study the Scriptures…
Read More10/26/2019 Uganda Graduation October 2019
Today in Entebbe, Uganda, Global Baptist Training Foundation had the privilege of completing its fifth classroom with 26 pastors from the four corners of this state known as the “Pearl of Africa.” What a joy to experience what these pastors feel as they work toward the completion of Level One of their theological studies. This…
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