I Love Working at TLI – Training Leaders International – Uganda and Minneapolis

I have just returned from a week in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a week in Tororo, Uganda, training pastors and church leaders. We taught skills for studying, teaching, and preaching from the Bible.

In my role of coordinating member care at TLI, I travel one week every month to Minneapolis. It has been a real privilege for me: facilitating weekly prayer groups, having lunch and dinner meetings, and learning about the extended families of the men and women who make TLI possible.

Here are some highlights from June – August.

TLI group pic at our meetings in June. Every other year we meet in Colorado Springs for several days of renewal. The people with blurred faces serve in closed countries.
Our Tororo teaching team with our driver.

My curious friend at my hotel room door.
Animated group work. Zakaria is an excellent student.

The students were very happy to receive Course Two review packets

Selling brooms in an African traffic jam.

All 42 students received a set of review cards.

Working in groups making sense of the story and message of the whole Bible. How does a given passage fit into the message and story of the Bible?

The students work through our three hermeneutical questions: What does the author of this biblical passage intend to communicate? How does this passage fit into the story and message of the Bible? What does it mean for us today?

Praying before class begins.

Interested in training pastors in Africa? This is an excellent book to start familiarizing yourself with the topic. Western educational methods do not necessarily work in Africa.

My grandkids getting rev’ed up for a water balloon fight, August 2026.

Hanging out with Spiderman on Labor Day.

Thank you for praying. The students are learning and growing. We have started to select members of the first cohort to team teach a second group in 2027. It is exciting to pass along the teaching using Paul’s exhortation, 2 Timothy 2:2 .

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