[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Developing a healthy home church relationship
- Volunteering at your church
- Building relationships with key leaders (pastors, missions leaders, etc.)
- Praying & supporting financially
- Joining or starting a small group
- Sharing/teaching what you have to offer
Building tentmaking vision & understanding
- Communicating the tentmaking model
- Hosting a tentmaking event
- Sharing what you are learning in integrating life & fishing evangelism
- Sharing stories of God’s working through tentmaking
Developing a support team
- Forming a prayer support team
- Setting up an effective & secure communications channel
- Forming a crisis support team
Partnering with your church
- Drafting a simple agreement clearly stating commitments of both parties
Setting up an emergency fund, possibly a special needs fund (children’s education, ongoing training, etc) - Developing a clear plan/structure for communicating
- Getting your church to pay for partnership agreement with tentmaking organization or mission agency.
What if your church does not want to partner with you?
- Steps to take before giving up – one more attempt
- Steps to take when all is lost…last resort – look for a new church
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- What is a healthy home church relationship – the key components
- Forming a prayer team
- Joining or starting a small group – ESL class – Discipleship group – Alpha etc.
- Volunteering at your church
- Becoming an advocate for tentmaking
- Setting up an effective communication channel –
- What if your church does not want to send you? – Steps to take
- Forming a crisis team – what does it look like how do you build one?
- Getting your church to pay for the partnership agreement (TENT) and an emergency fund.
- Hosting a tentmaking event at your church
- Drafting a church/tentmaker written agreement – with obligations of both clearly stated.