Ministry, Profits and the Schizophrenic Tentmaker
Today thousands of people, inspired by tentmaking pioneers like J. Christy Wilson and Ruth Siemens, are using their professional skills as a vehicl…
Category: Volume 36 – Issue 3
Professional Tentmakers Open Doors for Ministry
Professional involvement in a credible job opens doors to in-depth interaction within our circle of activity and influence.
Begging and Beggars: A Missionary’s Dilemma
Responding appropriately to requests for money, especially from desperately poor beggars on the streets, is one of a missionary’s most difficult pro…
Wanted: Venture Stewards
Underwriting dot.coms and then going public is but the latest winning formula for hundreds of venture capitalists who have known decades of success in…
A Call to Arms: Forming a Christian Worldview of Teaching English as a Second Language
I want to challenge Christian ESL professionals to formulate a Christian worldview of this discipline and thereby begin influencing research and curri…
Mission Societies: Are They Biblical?
Are mission societies really necessary? Or are they, at best, “an historical accommodation for accomplishing missions due to the negligence of the c…
More than a Virtual Church: Church-Planting Resources on the Web
Prior to the Internet, inexperienced church planters often faced the prospect of a lonely job in a new location struggling to know how to launch a chu…
Global Report: A Woman’s Place in Missions
Women have always been the backbone of the missionary effort.
Budgeting for the Future
Perhaps it is time to move beyond our individual budgets and take stock of the broader financial resources God has given us for the task of world miss…
Toward a Theology of Evacuation
"Remember your T.P." That was the code word for "Pack your one suitcase; we are evacuating!" The Evangelical Covenant Church has devised and revised a…