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 evangelization. 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)

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Wilson, Jr., J. Christy.
Today’s Tentmakers.
Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1979.
LIBRARY MISSION; SMALL BUSINESS
Due to the skyrocketing costs of missions tentmaking is becoming a more viable option. But this book also looks at the fact  that many people go overseas to work. People from many different professions. The book aims at educating these professional people to the understanding that they can become tentmakers—missionaries with professions. This is a major work  on tentmaking that has motivated many of the present world tentmakers.

Hamilton, Don.
Tentmakers Speak: Practical Advice from over 400 Missionary Tentmakers.
Regal Books, 1989. ISBN#: 0830713212.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
A significant proportion of the world’s population cannot be reached by traditional missionary methods. But millions of these same people can be reached with the gospel through the non-traditional ministry of tentmaking. This volume provides you with the invaluable insight of over 400 veteran tentmakers worldwide. TMQ Research, California, 1987, 99pp Source: Mission Books)
 

House Church Planting Resources

CHURCH MULTIPLICATION GUIDE: Helping Churches to Reproduce Locally and Abroad by George Patterson and Richard Scoggins. Brings into focus those Biblical discipling principles that have been used by the Holy Spirit for church growth by conversion and reproduction. The theory is combined with practical steps to start and maintain a movement of church reproduction. Dr. Ralph D. Winter highly recommends this book. This guide is available for purchase or as a free download Click Here

Business & Tentmaking

International Faith & Work Directory

New! The International Faith & Work Directory for 2003 has more than 1,200 listings including non-profit workplace ministries, businesses, churches and colleges that have an emphasis on faith and work mission. This editon reveals significant growth in the faith and work movement. Find a ministry in your area; there are more than 160 pages grouped alphabetically! 
A great resource! $25.00
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Gately, Ian & Jean
My Reasonable Service
Pentland Press, 1995.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
Experience-based and practical advice for those considering work abroad, includes resource list for training and jobs; bibliography and more.

Suter, Heinz & Gmur, Dr. Marco.
Business Power for God’s Purpose
published by VkG, CH-3280 Greng-Murten, Switzerland, 1997.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
An evaluation of the biblical, historical and contemporary use of business in fulfilling the task of the great commission. Major ethical ramifications are discussed.

Danker, William J.
Profit for the Lord.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1971.
LIBRARY BIOGRAPHY; MISSIONS
A surprising account of the various ways in which missionaries have utilised business enterprises to assist the planting of  the church and the benefit of new converts. It specifically studies the Moravians and the Basel Mission Trading Company, concentrating particularly on the economic structures they created to support their mission work. (Source: Mission  Books)

Biblical Vision and Purpose for Business

The Businessperson’s Handbook for Understanding and Practicing Business as Missions: Manual One

The Fourth Frontier - Exploring the world of work

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FOURTH FRONTIER
A new book exploring the institution of work.

by Dr. Stephen Graves & Dr. Thomas Addington

A new territory lies at the rim of the New Economy, a territory that has been around since the beginning of time but that is uncharted and foreign to most followers of Christ in the 21st century. It's the territory of work: the Fourth Frontier. Business strategists Stephen Graves and Thomas Addington approach this frontier with the outward observation that it is ripe with opportunity and the inward realization that we are commanded to do so by our King. Unlike other God-ordained institutions-church, family, and government-followers of Christ routinely treat work as a necessity: something we must do to make a living, a separate and disconnected entity of existence. Addington and Graves show that work, in fact, is ordained by God. By exploring such landscapes as calling, devotion, stewardship, influence, integrity and rest, readers can discover how to have a Kingdom influence in the marketplace while living an integrated life in the Fourth Frontier.

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Your Work Matters to God
by Doug Sherman, William Hendricks

Trying to determine what God wants you to do with your life is extremely tough. (An understatement!) Bill Hendricks and co-author Doug Sherman have done an excellent job telling the reader exactly why his or her work is important, and why it is important to THE Creator of all work. If you are "searching for significance", "Your Work Matters To God" is a definite read! www.faithpoint.com

Winter, Ralph D. (Editor)and Hawthorne, Steven C. (Editor)
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader
William Carey Library Publishers, 1992.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
This book is a multi-faceted collection of readings focused  on the biblical, cultural, and strategic dimensions of the task of world evangelization. The editors have pooled the contributions of over 70 authors to provide laymen and college students with an introduction to the history and potential  of the World Christian Movement.
http://www.uscwm.org/

Video - TENTMAKING : A Way of Life

SIM Missions - LIBRARY MISSIONS
What is tentmaking anyway? Why is it needed? What makes an effective tentmaker? Would I be suitable? What difficulties would I meet? These  and many more questions are answered to give a frank profile of the challenges and difficulties of being a tentmaker in today’s world. (This video may be hard to find)
 

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