Free Training Materials

GO Papers deal with a variety of topics essential to effective ministry. Below we offer some of our key papers for those considering tentmaking. 

Print off copies of your favorite articles from our website and hand them out or send them electronically to those on your e-mail list. Reprint articles from the GO Website in your non-profit newsletters, magazines etc. No written permission or prior permission is required - Simply include Global Opportunities credit with the article and a link to GO's website, www.globalopps.org, so people can find further help.

• Give Jesus your profession - Dave English
• Guidance - Understanding God's will - Ruth Siemens
• New Millennium Missions - Catching up with Paul - Dave English
• Why Did Paul Make Tents? - Ruth Siemens
• Paul's Secret - A First-Century Strategy for a 21st Century World - Dave English
• Tentmaking and the Global Job Market
• The Tentmaker's Motivation
• The Tentmakers Preparation
• Workplace Evangelism - Fishing Out Seekers (condensed version)
• The Divorced Christian
• Retirees: A Force for Missions!
• Student's and Graduates: Financing an Education
• The Tentmaker and prayer
• A workable Tentmaker Definition? - A response to Lai's search - Dave English
• The Tentmaker and inductive Bible study
• Investigative Bible study discussions
• Tentmaking: Antidote to paternalism?
• Why did Paul make tents? (in Japanese - pdf file)
• Workplace Evangelism (in Japanese - pdf file)

• Ministry, profits, and the schizophrenic tentmaker - Steven Rundle
• Kingdom Professionals; An Old Idea In New Wineskins - Gary Ginter
• A call to Integrity - Michael Roemmele
• Mission, marketplace and making tents - Derek Christensen