Training Pastors Worldwide

I’m sitting in the Newark airport waiting for my next flight, 15 hours to Johannesburg, for two weeks of biblical training.

This will be, approximately, my 60th week of training in seven countries, in almost six years with TLI. I’ve ministered to hundreds of pastors and church leaders who have little or no opportunities for pastoral training. Thank you for praying, giving, and encouraging me. You have truly made this possible.

Please pray for the students: travel, attentiveness, health, consistency in attendance.

Pray for me: smooth travel, clarity when teaching, health.

Here’s a pic from our recent Expository Team Training retreat in Wisconsin, and a family pic and video.

After our bi-annual staff meeting in Minneapolis, I headed to Sierra Leone for two weeks of training. I’ve included some pictures with commentary and some excellent links. My next trips will be a staff meeting in April-May and the two weeks in South Africa in May-June.

Here’s a link to a sermon I preached at my home/sending church, 2 Samuel 16. The essential nature of forgiveness as seen in King David and Jesus.

The following is a recent Joni Eareckson Tada contribution fueled by a lifetime of faithfulness in suffering. Here’s why she refuses to grumble.

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/worse-than-any-affliction

And another short article, “Who would I be if I were happy?” by Trevor Wax! Excellent

https://mailchi.mp/bb76e6524bb6/who-would-i-be-if-i-was-happy?e=1b4745dd06

It was a long stretch of training. I’m glad to be home for a bit. Thanks for reading, praying, and giving.

Bob

I’m home from an exciting and very profitable 9 day trip to South Africa. The students received a grasp of how to interpret the epistles (Romans – Revelation) and as a bonus, the overall message of Ephesians. Everyone was very pleased, and we are anticipating the next session in June – Prophetic Literature: Isaiah and in Kimberly, Mark. Here are a few pictures of our time together

I’m headed to Minneapolis on Monday for a week of meetings and then to Sierra Leone for two weeks. Please pray for the students that they would grasp the principles and the enduring truths of the gospel of Mark and Ephesians.

Thank you for reading, praying, and giving.

Bob and Vickie

Hello friends. Here’a a quick update:

Monday morning I leave for Queenstown, South Africa where I will be training a group of church leaders in skills for understanding epistles.

I will be using Ephesians to model and teach these skills. I will also lead the students to discover for themselves the glories of God as unfolded by Paul in Ephesians.

My shoulder is much better, I’m ready to travel, and the time spent recuperating was used studying: Ephesians, oral learning cultures, and developing a more focused orality teaching approach to help my students grasp the Scriptures. Some of my reading is pictured below.

I will return to California from South Africa, be home for 5 days, go to Minneapolis for staff meetings, and then depart for 2 weeks in Sierra Leone.

This will be a busy year: 11 training trips in Africa, and 3 week-long staff meetings in Minneapolis. Pray that each training will be fruitful.

And please pray for the students in South Africa, that they would grasp the concepts, and be amazed by the cosmic view of eternity from Ephesians about the work of God in the church, in the world, and in the coming ages, Ephesians 1:9-12, 3:10, 11. If you can, please read/pray/paraphrase/plead the prayers in Ephesians 1:15-23; 3:14-21, for my students.

Thank you for praying and giving and reading,

Bob

Here are some pics from the last few months.

And some of my reading for the last couple of months. The biography of Elisabeth Elliot is excellent.