The GO Equipped preparation course for tentmakers has had record attendance this year. The number of participants is up 70 percent since 2017.

We praise God for the great growth we are experiencing. Hopefully the increased number of course participants will give more cross-cultural Kingdom workers in the years to come, says Steinar Opheim, the director of Tent International.

The GO Equipped course is developed in a collaboration between Global Intent and Tent International and has been run annually in several nations the past 15 years. The past two years, the course numbers have grown rapidly, mostly due to the establishment of Tent resource centers in new nations.

Samuel Olatunbi (to the right), director at Nigerian Evangelical Mission Institute, was one of the keynote speakers when 68 mission- and church leaders from eight nations gathered for a West African consultation on tentmaking in August.

Reaching the nations is our goal. Tentmaking is our strategy, states the leader of one of the world´s most powerful mission networks.

The audience coming from ten nations, listens carefully as Samuel Olatunbi continues to explain how Nigeria Evangelical Mission Association (NEMA) will operate to send people to North Africa, the Middle East and the rest of the world. Olatunbi is the director of NEMA´s mission school and heads the training branch of this mission network that gathers a great number of Nigerian churches and organizations. Nigeria is a powerhouse in African missions, and NEMI´s member bodies currently has around 7000 people on the mission field. Continue reading →

New policies from the Saudi-Arabian leaders may reduce the opportunities for foreign workers to find jobs in what is still regarded as one of the most closed nations for the gospel.

 Most likely it is the unemployment rate of 13 percent that is now causing the Saudi government to make changes. The Economist write that  Ahmad Kattan, Saudi´s deputy labor minister, hopes to reduce the unemployment to 10 percent in the coming four years. To do so he has barred foreigners from 12 sectors in the economy. Baking and optometry are two of them.

Death penalty

For many years Saudi-Arabia was on top of Open Doors´ World Watch List displaying the worst persecutors of Christians. Over the years the situation has improved a bit, and the Arabian kingdom is now ranked as number 12. The situation for followers of Jesus is still difficult. Continue reading →

Behind these red supporter scarfs is a strong story of faith.

Liverpool-fans will turn the National Sports Complex in Kiev red when they get ready for the Champions League soccer final later on this month. Their German manager, Jürgen Klopp, has brought the pride back to what was one of Europe´s major soccer clubs 30 years ago. His Christian faith is one of his driving forces, and a solid foundation also in times when the results are not as good as expected.

Faith and soccer

Klopp sees no need to hide that he is a Christian, and he openly shares about his faith in public interviews. It even forms the backbone of his soccer philosophy. Continue reading →