Resources available to equip Christians in the Marketplace who are interested in Missions and/or Mercy activity in the marketplace.

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Video - TENTMAKING : A Way of Life
SIM Missions - postmaster@sim.org.nz
LIBRARY MISSIONS
What is tentmaking anyway? Why is it needed? What makes an effective tentmaker? Would I be suitable? What difficulties would I meet? These  and many more questions are answered to give a frank profile of the challenges and difficulties of being a tentmaker in today’s world.
http://www.sim.org/new_zealand/videos.html
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Adeney, Miriam
God’s Foreign Policy: Practical Ways to help the World’s Poor
Available from Regent College Publishers. Formerly published by Eerdmans, 1984.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
Compassion for the poor propels Christians to action  Health care is often our point of entry. As more people survive, we find we need to help people produce more food. But what about those without any land? We need to help them create jobs. In the chapter, ‘Business: Helping People Support  Themselves,’ three kinds of business assistance are explored. Some people set up craft businesses for export. Others develop vocational training schools to train people in locally-needed skills. Still others give microloans to enable  local entrepreneurs to start or expand small businesses..

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Beckman, David M. and Donnelly, Elizabeth Anne.
The Overseas List.
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House. 1979
LIBRARY MISSIONS
Outlines opportunities for living and working in developing countries as tentmakers.

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Danker, William J.
Profit for the Lord.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1971.
LIBRARY BIOGRAPHY; MISSIONS
A surprising account of the various ways in which missionaries have utilised business enterprises to assist the planting of  the church and the benefit of new converts. It specifically studies the Moravians and the Basel Mission Trading Company, concentrating particularly on the economic structures they created to support their mission work. (Source: Mission  Books)

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Gately, Ian & Jean
My Reasonable Service
Pentland Press, 1995.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
Experience-based and practical advice for those considering work abroad, includes resource list for training and jobs; bibliography and more.

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Gibson, D.
Avoiding the Tentmaker Trap
WEC International, 1997, 155pp
LIBRARY MISSIONS
Tentmaking as a missionary strategy is more than a modern day fad. It is biblically sound with a long history of Christian practice, beginning  with the Apostle Paul. However, tentmaking today can be fraught with difficulties and disappointments. Drawing from many years of experience, Mr Gibson will guide you through some of the pitfalls that may await the would-be tentmaker.  Includes a resource list of over 130 book titles and over 100 addresses for further contacts and information. (Source: Mission Books)

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Griffiths, Michael
A Task Unfinished
Great Britian: Monarch Publications, 1996. pp. 122-139.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
A fresh look at self-supporting missionaries. Examines the history and biblical basis for self-support and encourages a  new way of thinking in the area of tentmaking. One chapter in this book titled, ‘A Fresh Look at Self-Supporting Missionaries,’ gives small accounts of self-supporting and bi-vocational missionaries in history as well as biblical accounts  and a defense of Paul’s profession as a tentmaker in the first century.
http://www.btc.co.za/missions/book01.htm
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Hamilton, Don.
Tentmakers Speak: Practical Advice from over 400 Missionary Tentmakers.
Regal Books, 1989. ISBN#: 0830713212.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
A significant proportion of the world’s population cannot be reached by traditional  missionary methods. But millions of these same people can be reached with the gospel through the non-traditional ministry of tentmaking. This volume provides you with the invaluable insight of over 400 veteran tentmakers worldwide. TMQ  Research, California, 1987, 99pp Source: Mission Books)

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Kane, Herbert.
Life and Work on the Mission Field.
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1989.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
A well rounded book dealing with the three major aspects of the missionary: preparation, life and missionary work.  It is in the third and final section of the book in which Kane addresses much of the traditional missionary work and brings about the need for a more conventional, more effective and more real missionary service. He deals not only with the  more traditional and obvious (medical, radio and literature) roles, but also into the more conventional areas such as community development. He sites the needs and potential effectiveness of moving our service toward such dimension. Life  and Work on the Mission Field is more than a book of facts and ideas. Kane has given many concrete examples of trend setting for the Master.

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Kane, Herbert
The Making of a Missionary
Deerfield, Illinois: Baker Book House. 1987.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
This book talks about: 1) Mission myths. 2) What a missionary is. 3) How important is the call 4) Obstacle and hang ups. 5)  Qualifications. 6) Trends with tentmaking. 7) Opposition to tentmaking. 8) Opportunities in tentmaking.

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Lewis, Johnathan.
Working Your Way to the Nations: A Guide to Effective Tentmaking
InterVarsity Press, 1997
LIBRARY MISSIONS
Tentmaking is a subject of strategic importance to world evangelisation. The concept is biblical,  historical precedents abound, and today’s missionary context demands it. This book will fill a gap in the area since it provides a set of essays on effective tentmaking by experienced and knowledgeable missions specialists from around the  world. Its concerns are practical but what makes this book doubly useful is the fact that it is designed as a study text either for individual or group use. Anyone contemplating the tentmaking role would be well advised to check out this  book. Edited by Jonathan Lewis, Wm Carey Library, 1993, 193pp (Source: Mission Books)

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Suter, Heinz & Gmur, Dr. Marco.
Business Power for God’s Purpose
published by VkG, CH-3280 Greng-Murten, Switzerland, 1997.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
An evaluation of the biblical, historical and contemporary use of business in fulfilling  the task of the great commission. Major ethical ramifications are discussed.

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Tucker, Ruth A.
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1983
LIBRARY MISSIONS
In one chapter (page 206 - 209) the author tells the story of Christian  Missionaries in the Hawaiian Islands who conducted business to support their ministry. These missionaries and their children eventually left the ministry to carry on business and exploited the land and people for profit. This is an  unhappy chapter in the history of business and missions.

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Wilson, Jr., J. Christy.
Today’s Tentmakers.
Wheaton, IL: Tyndale, 1979.
LIBRARY MISSION; SMALL BUSINESS
Due to the skyrocketing costs of missions tentmaking is becoming a more viable option. But this book also looks at the fact  that many people go overseas to work. People from many different professions. The book aims at educating these professional people to the understanding that they can become tentmakers—missionaries with professions. This is a major work  on tentmaking that has motivated many of the present world tentmakers.

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Winter, Ralph D. (Editor)and Hawthorne, Steven C. (Editor)
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader
William Carey Library Publishers, 1992.
LIBRARY MISSIONS
This book is a multi-faceted collection of readings focused  on the biblical, cultural, and strategic dimensions of the task of world evangelization. The editors have pooled the contributions of over 70 authors to provide laymen and college students with an introduction to the history and potential  of the World Christian Movement.
http://www.uscwm.org/
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Yamamori, Tetsunao
Penetrating Missions’ Final Frontier - A New Strategy for Unreached Peoples.
InterVarsity Press, 1993, 214pp
LIBRARY MISSIONS
In this fast-paced book, you will get a whirlwind tour of the world that remains  virtually untouched by Christianity. In addition, the author offers creative strategies for penetrating those parts of the world that have been most resistant. This book will be of special interest to would-be tentmakers. (Source: Mission  Books)
http://www1.gospelcom.net/ivpress/title/1370.html
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