Tentmaking Courses Offered by GLOBAL Opportunities & TENT

People have attended GO/TENT courses from all the above 31 countries!

" GLOBAL Opportunities tentmaker training equipped me with the needed ministry skills and allowed me to meet with other future tentmakers. I strongly recommend it for those considering tentmaking missions"
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Four days of intensive, high quality training for people interested in tentmaking. The course is designed both for those who are planning on going as tentmakers and for those who are considering tentmaking. It will enable you to understand tentmaking and help equip you to be an effective tentmaker. You will receive training in these vital areas:
 

• Importance of tentmaking today
  the other track in missions & why it is needed
• Biblical basis of tentmaking
  it was good enough for Paul but is it relevant today?
• Culture shock & how to deal with it
  knowing it exists helps you to deal with it
• The international job market
  finding a job opening is the easy part, but there is a process
• Effective, sensitive evangelism
  stop hunting and start fishing!
• Leading investigative Bible studies
  helping seekers find answers
• Inductive Bible Study
  learn to feed yourself and others even in Timbuktu
• Bonding with the people
  learn to enjoy and thrive in a new culture
• Spiritual warfare and disciplines
  why a prayer team is so important
• Church planting
  the ultimate goal of tentmaking is to plant self reproducing churches
• Home church relationship
  a vital part of your overseas ministry
• Healthy team relationships
  being a team player is a key to effective ministry
• Preparing for effectiveness
  impacting people everyday is not an elusive goal
• Practical issues
  juggling everyday life with ministry goals - finding balance
• Business as Mission
  you need to include a ministry component to your business plan

Course materials - Course handbook & Course CD

You will receive a course handbook that has been updated and printed just in time for the course, with all sessions presentation notes, articles that complement the session and further resources. As this is an intensive course and we do not have the time to cover important issues as well as we would like, you will be receiving a course CD at the end of the course.

This course CD has all the presentations, more than 200 relevant articles to expand on what you have learned, video clips and tools for presenting tentmaking in your small group or church and much more.
Note that this CD is only available to those who attend our courses and is not for distribution elsewhere.

Do you enjoy seeing new things in Scripture?

Besides quality training in tentmaking, you will experience some powerful times in Bible study to undergird what we are learning.

GO Equipped Tentmaking Course
Florida Februdary 2009

 4050 Colonial Blvd.
 Fort Myers, FL 33966
 

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Tentmaking course at your location?

We will also take this course on the road wherever and whenever there is a group of 20 or more interested in hosting it.

Contact GO if your church or missions group would like to sponsor a class in your city. We will be delighted to come and work with you!

Gateway - Training for Cross-Cultural Service is a unique missionary training community that focuses on equipping the whole person for ministry in another context, country or culture. Located in British Columbia, Canada.

Mission Training International

Emmaus Road International

L.A. Missionary Internship
PO Box 41155, Pasadena, CA 91114
(626) 797-7903

Institute for Cross-Cultural Training
Billy Graham Center,  Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL  60187
(630) 752-7950
email: ldickers@wheaton.edu