The Movement
From the archives – This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
We truly are referring to a movement. All round the world today, men and women are moving cross-culturally to use their professions and trades in the cause of world mission. There are several ways of looking at this movement. Each of these may have some truth in it, but if taken alone can be misleading or even damaging because they are only partial. For example:
- Tentmaking is a substitute for explicit missionary work, necessary because of reduced freedom to enter countries as “missionaries“.
- Tentmakers are just Christians who are simply part of the worldwide movement of people in trade, service industries etc.
- Tentmaking is a cheaper means of world evangelism, because self-supporting.
Each of the above distorts the true picture of what tentmaking is. Continue reading
She’s a nurse, a MENA Total Employment tentmaker serving in a closed country for over 14 years. She shares a brief window here into the countless opportunities God gives her–and the uncanny creativity she has for using them. She is totally employed in her God-given mission to touch others with encouragement, good advice, spiritual truth, and a picture of Jesus’ help in their great need.
If you had worked as the global sales manager for Coca-Cola this map would have been unacceptable.