BTCP training equipped him for the move from the business world to training pastors in refugee camps

Don Schrenk received BTCL training in Metro-Atlanta GA and the Lord has continued to use him in diverse ministries.

Don now serves as a pastor in a GA Prison and has launched the ministry Teaching the Vine, which provides reproducible BTCP pastor training programs in African refugee camps.

To see more of how Don is using the BTCP concept and curriculum, visit his ministry's website at teachingthevine.org


Transcript:

Hi my name is Don shrink and I actually am a member of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church and I've been a businessman for 40 years and for the last two years I started saying a prayer for God to open the doors where he wants me to be and to shut them very hard where he does not want me to be in life and to that came be tcp the bible training platform we're taking them taken at Johnson Ferry over it at the church here in atlanta Georgia and through that god then opened a door for me to serve in prisons and so the prison became open and that's where i went so i've been pastoring about an hour north of atlanta in a little town called Gainesville it's Hall County Correctional Institute the men are in there is 250 men in the prison and we we go in and we do church that has all been rolling together within be TCP and me in my life and then something new happen was in Uganda and if you look at what's going on in Uganda South Sudan is at war and they're coming in to Uganda the Congo is at war and they come in to Uganda Burundi is at war and they come in to Uganda so as all these wars happen Uganda's becoming a safe zone the government's opened up campuses are 40 square miles I have 100,000 people of the same people group we are bringing the BT CP platform into the camps we have 37 today that are turn currently being trained in camp Invepi and we have 35 that are being trained and Camp Rhino and these are all pastors from South Sudan that are hungry for the true teaching of the word of God so what do you think is going to happen that a hundred thousand people in one camp after 35 pastors are trained what do you think will happen within two years from now and they the answer I believe is going to be an explosion within the camp where more pastors don't want to be fed the same way that the first 35 were fed just the way Jesus did it with the twelve so I believe that's a awesome way that God is using me at age sixty now so it's a beautiful way to serve the Lord I just want to thank the guys at BT CP for putting this all together beautiful platform to carry forward with absolutely as encouraged me and equipped me to do better in my life to help me in church they also help me my family to help my family better understand the Bible.

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