Global Intent’s and Tent International’s on-site GO Equipped courses are finally back after the COVID pandemic. The next course runs in Sinsheim, Germany the end of October. 

40+ participants were present as the first post-COVID GO Equipped course kicked off in the city of Uyo in Nigeria last month. The Nigeria course was followed by a course in Liberia.

“It was amazing to meet participants face to face again,” comments Tent International’s director, Steinar Opheim.

“The GO Equipped course fills a vacuum in training people for missions,” says Ette Ettebong. The medical professor has held numerous courses on mission over the years. “Now I have found the tool that has been lacking,” says the Nigerian leader.

Ette Ettebong is the visionary behind the first post-covid, on-site GO Equipped course that was held in Uyo, Nigeria last month. 40+ participants took part in the training.

“For the first time students and young professionals in my denominational church have had their eyes opened to the immense possibilities and opportunities that await them if they yield their lives and their professions to God. People from other churches have also been impacted. Even people who missed the course, want to be involved. I could not have asked for more response than this, says Ettebong. He serves as an associate professor at pharmacology at the University of Uyo. He is also the acting dean of The Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences. The GO Equipped course was held on the university’s campus. 

It is read in more than 100 nations, and has been appreciated by thousands of professionals, businesspeople and students who are serving Jesus around the world. This issue of Tentmaking Today marks its 10-year anniversary.

“Our idea was to make a stand-alone tentmaking publication that could promote tentmaking and educate, inspire, and encourage tentmakers and tentmakers-to-be,” says Global Intent’s international director, Ari Rocklin. He was the visionary behind Tentmaking Today when everything started in 2011. Then the e-newsletter was named Tentemaking Briefs. Four years ago it was given its current name. The publication grew out of monthly, organisational newsletters sent by Global Opportunities (now Global Intent) and Tent International.

“We wanted to create a more general tentmaking newsletter that was not linked to any organization. Since we have readers from 133 nations, we must have done something right,” says Rocklin.

GO World was first published in 1995 by Ruth Siemens and Dave English of Global Opportunities. It was an 8 page journal which was mailed to some 8000 people. When it was discontinued a much shorter email and web version called Tentmaking Briefs was launched. It was then decided to rebrand and repurpose it as Tentmaking Today, which is what you are reading today. As of this week, above are the top 10 countries where it is being read.