Where: First Assembly of God, 4701 Summerlin Road, Fort Myers When: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 Time: 2:30 – 4:30pm & an encore presentation 7 – 9 pm Brought to you by the Discipleship School of Fort Myers and Global Intent Contact: Contact Phill Sandahl at phill@intent.org, or 239.243.0881 for more information. Click here to read…
How long does it take to become a pastor? Some people would answer that an aspiring pastor would first need to have a Bible degree (four years) or a seminary degree (three years) or a doctoral degree (three years) or an internship (two years) or ordination (one year). How long does it take to learn…
One of the biggest problems in recruiting new missionaries is “the tragic, trudging procession of college graduates who are too burdened with debts to allow them to go into missions. School debts interpose years of delay– and often end in denial of the mission call for tens of thousands of mission-minded college graduates.” So states…
Why I Chose Tentmaking? By Ruth E. Siemens, Founder of Global Opportunities (now Global Intent) On April 4, 1954, PanAm’s little prop plane finally deposited me in Lima, Peru, after a brief stop in Guatemala and an overnight in Panama. It was about 5 A.M. when I arrived, and at 8 A.M. I was in…
Prayer is essential for tentmakers because they are in the frontlines in this cosmic war for control of the world. They spend much time with outsiders and most serve in spiritually hostile countries. They fight many fierce battles. A few years ago, the U.S. government put pressure on Muslim Afghanistan to let tentmakers put up…
Some of our GO applicants who wish to serve the Lord abroad as tentmakers or missionaries come from churches with little or no missionary vision. Yet as they go abroad they need moral and prayer support from their home church, and maybe financial support as well. The fact that the applicants are missions-committed gives them…
You can multiply your church’s missions involvement with little or no increase in your church budget! Send tentmakers! Send lay people who support themselves abroad in secular jobs as they make Jesus Christ known, in the tradition of the Apostle Paul. They may be young graduates, professionals in mid-career, or retired people. They may even…
I have always been intrigued by Paul’s tentmaker team members, Aquila and Priscilla. We are not privileged to a lot of information about them. What we do know is that this power couple (Prisquila?) was among the earliest known Christian missionaries in the first century. Aquila and Priscilla were business people who made tents, and Paul was one of…
Workplace Evangelism: How to Fish Out Seekers Evangelism gives me joy! But I recall how I used to struggle to start a conversation. By the time I had planned my approach, my little sermon and my plea for a decision, I was so uptight that my surprised victim became embarrassed, too. But in a couple…
Fishing evangelism gives me joy! But I remember how I used to struggle. Most Christian workers struggle with evangelism and so rarely do it. Even missionaries and tentmakers (who support themselves in secular jobs abroad) minister mainly to other believers. Christians need to ask themselves, “How is God using me now in evangelism in my neighborhood,…