The GO Equipped courses run by Global Intent and Tent International are hard hit by the Covid 19 travel bans. The two sister agencies are now working hard to make their training courses available online.

“Our GO Equipped-courses have been in higher demand than we have been able to deliver. For years we have wanted to make it possible to take the courses online. The increased number of ‘live’ courses has however slowed down the work of preparing things for a digital platform. Now it looks like course cancellations due to the Covid 19 outbreak may give us the needed time to bring the teaching online. Online courses will give us capacity to train more people, so something good will definitely come out of this crisis,” says Global Intent’s director Phill Sandahl.

Many cancellations

For now planned GO Equipped courses in Nigeria in March and South Africa in June have been postponed or cancelled. A course in Norway in May is pending until Norwegian authorities give further instructions on what people there may or may not do next month. GO Experience seminars in Liberia and Brazil have also been postponed or cancelled. 

“Our GO Equipped courses have been breaking new records in number of participants every year since 2015. In 2019 we had more than 400 participants at our courses worldwide. As soon as more authorities give signals on what restrictions we will face in the last six months of 2020, we will start planning our course schedule for this period. We also aim at having the full GO Equipped course established online by June this year,” says Sandahl.

YouTube channel

Global Intent has established a YouTube channels that gives regular updates on tentmaking issues. It can be found at http://www.youtube.com/globalintent.

The online GO Equipped course will be divided into six-weeks modules. The next run of Module 1 which focuses on the biblical basis for tentmaking, will start on May 4th. Registrations will be up and running from April 20 on http://www.tentinternational.org/goequipped

By Steinar Opheim