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12/21/2021 GBTF Congo Christmas

Global Baptist Training Foundation got a wonderful Christmas gift this week! Classes have resumed in Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)! Fidele Shinga has nearly 100 pastors and pastors’ wives in his first class in his native country. We have, for years, talked about the intentional multiplication that happens when the nationals we have trained […]

09/29/2021 – Re-opening Congo classes

Perhaps you remember that we have held classes for several years in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Then the guerilla activity caused the US State Department to warn Americans to stay out of the area where we had been having classes each year. We have prayed for this country to re-open yo GBTF, and we […]

7/25/2014 – Rwanda and Congo

I returned from the Congo about 9:00 o’clock Wednesday night by bus. Yes, that will be my last bus trip ever. In case you are still wondering why I am so opposed to bus travel between Rwanda and the Congo, let me offer another explanation on top of what I have already offered. Over one-hundred […]

7/23/2014 – Rwanda and Congo

Today was the long day of this three day seminar. There was more material, more questions, and more intensity. There was a lot accomplished in terms of the passing of sheer information. Africans learn differently than most westerners. They tend to be cerebral in the acquisition of knowledge, but in teaching more than preaching, they […]

7/22/2014 – Rwanda and Congo – 2

I shouldn’t be, but I am always amazed anew as I watch women around the world react and respond to the Word of God. It is such an amazement to watch the tears, the praise, and receive the thanks from these women for helping them learn to “rightly divide the Word of Truth.” Once again […]

7/22/2014 – Rwanda and Congo

Greetings from the Congo, We began our class today with about 45-50 participants. At first blush, it appears that some of the more distant village pastors did not make it this year. The hosts have not yet told me why this might have been. Because we are only teaching through Wednesday we can only cover […]

7/21/2014 – Rwanda and Congo

I began my pastors’ wives classes this morning. They have never done anything like this, so they kept the schedule light – Monday and Tuesday mornings from 9-12. Ok. I will roll with it. By 9:30, we had 36 pastors’ wives and eight nursing babies between the ages of six weeks and 2 years, many […]

7/20/2014 – Rwanda and Congo – 2

Yesterday, I was able to visit the Rwandan Genocide Memorial. I can’t begin to tell you how it broke my heart to tour this facility. I have known about the Rwandan Genocide. Bruce has told us that all of the pastors he teaches were, in some way, affected by this atrocity. But now I understand […]

7/20/2014 – Rwanda and Congo

Today, I heard the words, “Welcome to the Congo”. They were from my host on the seat beside me after we arrived in the Congo. My host traveled to pick me up to Kigali Friday evening, and before our conversation had gone very far he told me he had come up by bus. Yes, the […]

7/18/2014 – Rwanda and Congo – 3

Today is graduation day from Theology I01-1. For the vast majority, if not all of these pastors, this is the first time in their lives they have had an opportunity at getting any kind of meaningful ministry preparation. We taught until about 11:00 this morning when we took a short break for a short meeting […]

Global Baptist Training Foundation offers four levels of training in Hermeneutics, Basic Theology, Expositional Preaching, and Evangelism. For national pastors who desire training in the original biblical languages, we also offer extended training in this area. When it is possible to return to teaching sites twice a year, the training can be completed in as little as two years (without languages). ESL is also available to all of our students.

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