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Developing your Tentmaker Strategy

A personally tutored correspondence course offered by the Missionary Training Service (a member organisation of Global Connections - the Evangelical Missionary Alliance).

Tentmaking - working in a normal job alongside one's missionary work - takes its name from the Apostle Paul's trade.  Work of all types should bring glory to God, extend His rule by helping bring order out of chaos, benefit other people and creation in general, promote faith in Jesus Christ, and bring personal fulfilment through using the gifts and talents He has given.  This highly practical course aims to help you in these aspects of contemporary tentmaking. Click Here to read more

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The Challenge of Tentmaking
Serving God through your profession and business overseas.
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Lewis, Jonathan.
A Study Guide - Working Your Way to the Nations:
A Guide to Effective Tentmaking
InterVarsity Press, 1997
LIBRARY MISSIONS

Tentmaking is a subject of strategic importance to world evangelisation. The concept is biblical,  historical precedents abound, and today’s missionary context demands it. This book will fill a gap in the area since it provides a set of essays on effective tentmaking by experienced and knowledgeable missions specialists from around the world. Its concerns are practical but what makes this book doubly useful is the fact that it is designed as a study text either for individual or group use.
Anyone contemplating the tentmaking role would be well advised to check out this book. Edited by Jonathan Lewis, Wm Carey Library, 1993, 193pp (Source: Mission Books)  Click here to order direct from Global Opportunities

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Working Your Way to the Nations

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface. How to Use This Manual
1. Planning for Success. Don Hamilton
2. Getting Perspective. Detlef BIoecher
3. Cross-Cultural Servants. David Tai-Woong Lee
4. The Crucial Role of the Local Church. Derek Christensen
5. Critical Considerations of Deployment. Jonathan Cortes
6. Biblical and Doctrinal Foundations. Joshua K. Ogawa
7. Personal Readiness. Elizabeth Vance
8. Two Essential Skills. Jim Chew
9. Team Dynamics and Spiritual Warfare. James Tebbe
10. Understanding the Host Culture. Elizabeth Goldsmith
11. Dealing With Stress. Carlos Calderon
12. Becoming a Belonger. Marcos Amado
Conclusion
Appendix A: Personal Action Plan
Appendix B: Resources

THINKING OF BEING A TENTMAKER?

EVER SINCE THE APOSTLE PAUL HAD A JOB MAKING TENTS TO SUPPORT HIS WORK of spreading the gospel, "tentmakers" have played an important role in the fulfillment of the Great Commission. But not everyone who works overseas has an impact for Christ. Becoming an effective tentmaker calls for a special mix of skills.

In Working Your Way to the Nations you will find help with such questions as
- How can I know for sure whether God is calling me to this kind of ministry?
- Do I "send myself" overseas as a self-supporting professional person, or does my church send me?
- What will be my relationship with my home church, since I won't be a traditional missionary?
- Won't it be a strain doing my "day job" conscientiously and also trying to help the local church?
- What are the main skills I should be working on I>now?
- Some tentmakers leave their ministry because they feel they are accomplishing nothing. How can I avoid this?

This workbook is actually a course of study. It helps Christians interested in tentmaking learn how to fulfill that calling. While the book can be used for individual study, it will be most useful when studied with others in a small group. Guidelines for group study are included.

The heart of the course is in the Action Plan Assignment at the end of each chapter. These exercises will help you define your readiness for tentmaking ministry. They will lead you to the formation of a Personal Action Plan--a dynamic, goal-oriented plan with a timeline and accountability structure.

Simply put, you have in your hands a unique tool--one that may change your life.

For such a time as ours, this book is birthed! We witness today a striking international commitment to bivocational Christian ministry. Tentmakers, gifted crosscultural servants, are critical to the global cause of Christ if thechurch is to be established in the nations which require creative access. Up until this book, the church has not had a strategic tool that would offer|entry-level equipping to the tentmaking force, particularly training based in the local church. May this workbook be a servant to the praise of the Lamb and the extension of his kingdom among all peoples!
--WILLIAM D.TAYLOR Executive Director, World Evangelical Fellowship, Missions Commission