Multiple ways of bringing Jesus to your workplace

Do you think that bringing faith to work mainly means that you must use your lunch breaks and other opportunities to speak about Jesus? Here are some additional perspectives that it may be good to grasp.

I attended a faith-at-work seminar recently. The speaker was engaging, and the audience responded well. The message was however just fueling the common idea that work is secular. Through Jesus we were told that it can be given a divine touch, though.

Global Intent’s and Tent International’s GO Equipped courses experienced exponential growth before Covid 19 hit the world. Now the courses are gaining speed again.

­“This course had a great impact on us and gave new perspectives when we took it six years ago. It has still been good to come back. Much of the course has been renewed. So even though many of the subjects are the same, it feels like we are at a new course,” say two sisters who came from France to take part in the recently held GO Equipped course in Bergen, Norway. 

They point out the teaching on biblical basis for tentmaking, hospitality and how to keep your life in balance had a big impact on them when they took the course in 2016.

With less than two percent Christians, Niger is regarded as a mission field among Jesus-followers worldwide. Still the Nigerien churches want to send people globally to serve in God’s mission. 

People from nine nations were celebrating together when Tent Niger was officially opened in Niger’s capital city, Niamey, on April 2. This is a new record in Tent. From Africa there were representatives from Benin, Togo, Chad, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Niger. In addition, both Germany and Norway had people at the event.  The opening also marked the end of the first-ever GO Equipped course in Niger. 25 participants took part in the training. Several of them are already operating cross-culturally as expatriate students in Niger. 

Liberia is used to receiving missionaries. Now initiatives are taken to make the previously war-torn country into a sending nation. Tentmaking will be a central tool.

The story behind the emerging tentmaking movement in Liberia stretches back to 2012. Visionary leaders received information about the All Africa tentmaking conference in Douala, Cameroon. For financial reasons, they decided to travel by bus. The journey takes close to two weeks. At one border crossing they got robbed. They still made it to the conference. As they listened to the teaching and talked with leaders from other nations, the idea to start sending tentmakers from Liberia was born.