The Tentmaker Group has launched to help church planters raise funding. For many, funding is a significant challenge to the pursuit of their calling. The Tentmaker Group provides opportunities to help fund these transitions and city-changing movements. The Tentmaker Group was created in answer the following questions:

How do you transition into ministry?
How do you create a sustainable movement?
How do you fund a church plant?
How do you change a city?

The Tentmaker Group assists movements, ministry leaders and church planters who seek to bring gospel-centered change to cities. The concept comes from the apostle Paul who worked as a tentmaker in Thessalonica, Corinth, and Ephesus (cf. Acts 18:3, 1 Thess. 2:9) in order to plant churches.

Church Planters & Ministry Leaders : The goal is to pair planters & ministry leaders with positions that allow them to provide for their families and transition with income into the ministry.

Movements: Start a tentmaker organization in your city to provide ongoing support for your first or future church plants and ministries. This model is similar to Agathos‘ plan of One Church One Village, who instead of asking for continual support to fund their ministry to the orphans of aids victims in Africa, seeks to buy farms to create ongoing support.

By focusing on self-sustenance, and requiring that each village be self-sustaining, costs to each participating church are limited to a specific amount – capital costs. No further funding will be needed for each village.

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