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.

The Operation Mobilization (OM) Spanish division is offering tentmaker training in Spanish online. Enrolment is now open. For more information contact your local country office of OM.

Book

For centuries, God has called missionaries to cross cultures with the Gospel. Along the way, they have developed necessary skill sets for a cultural expression of the Good News.

Tentmakers, like missionaries, need to approach their adopted cultures with sensitivity to the differences when sharing the Gospel with their new friends.

This book shares the skills to help tentmakers be effective witnesses. Tools once accessible only to full-time Christian workers moving overseas are now available to anyone who desires to intentionally live missionally.

Now it is available in Italian and Spanish as well as English.

What happens when tentmakers return home after their job contracts have ended and their work visas have expired? In my 22 years of mobilizing tentmakers through mentoring, equipping and follow up, most end up off the radar which makes it hard to track their journeys. It is an unfortunate part of this ministry as the relationships that get built during the process are valuable.

Here are some of the stories of returned tentmakers

Some attend further tentmaker training courses and are urgently wanting to return to a new job so they can continue their mission. The return to the field rate is fairly high among them.

Most do not return. Many are disappointed in themselves feeling they have failed and have nothing to share about their time abroad. Yet, there are many stories of how God has taken the seeds that have been planted and made something miraculous. Discipleship movements have started even though the tentmaker has no recollection of having had a faith conversation with anyone. But that is another story.