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 →

We are now seeing the birth of what can easily become a South American tentmaking movement, believes Gustavo Borges.

Gustavo aims at building a South American tentmaking movement

He is the father of four, owns a recently opened coffee shop, works in an insurance company, and has just started a tentmaking resource center in his own nation. Gustavo Borges still wants to see more things happening.

Last month he served as the keynote speaker at several tentmaking events in Ecuador. More than 200 people took part at the gatherings where they were introduced to tentmaking ideas. Continue reading →

33% of the world’s population have have no reasonable expectation to hear about Jesus

A new video answers the question, “why do tentmaking?” There are three main reasons.

• ACCESS – A way to enter parts of the world that deny visas and entrance for vocational religious workers. 3.1 Billion people have no reasonable access to the gospel. Most of the least reached live in areas that do not allow vocational religious workers. No wonder they are ignorant of the Gospel. Tentmakers have no closed doors.

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Since most tentmakers are not able to communicate openly with their home churches nor are their pictures displayed on church missions bulletin boards, it is all too easy for them to be forgotten. We’ve compiled a list of comments they have received on returning to their home churches. It is imperative that tentmakers ensure their home and sending church is on board with them and that a communication channel has been established before they leave. May you never hear the negative comments! Continue reading →