TENTMAKERS provides experiences that equips and empowers you with twelve life-giving character-building skill sets. What you learn will help you grow into your God-given potential. At each course you will experience:

  • Christ-centered Training Content for building practical skills for purposeful living

  • Unique Training Process which anchors skills & builds confidence

  • Unique Training Environments which promote spiritual growth & transformation

  • Unique Training Methods which build you up and encourage you

  • Unique, Passionate Trainers who seek to bring out the best in you

  • Growth in Confidence & Purpose in living your life on mission as a Biblical tentmaker

 

Character-Building Christian Leadership Skills Training

The curriculum for our courses has been developed & tested over 40 years to equip and empower participants with training in these skill set areas with Christ at the center. Some of the benefits of this training are:

Relational                                          

  • Confidence to initiate conversation and reach out to others

  • Become a compelling and active listener

  • Build lasting and meaningful relationships

  • Draw the best out of others, and learn to manage conflict

Communication                               

  • Become a compelling speaker

  • Build credibility and speak with clarity

  • The ability to create positive group environments enhanced with respect and understanding

Motivational                                      

  • Inspire others to dream and achieve

  • Be self-motivated while helping others overcome obstacles, disappointments, procrastination and fear

  • Live with more purpose, passion and enthusiasm

Personal Management                                        

  • Be who God called you to be and gain a clearer vision and direction for your life

  • Articulate your personal beliefs, convictions and your philosophy of life with confidence

  • Develop concrete strategies and plans to achieve desired results and build your own personal board of advisors

Organizational Management

  • Build people and help them succeed

  • Skills to plan, organize, delegate and achieve desired results with and through others

  • Help yourself and others to become accountable; servant leadership with humility, integrity and stewardship

  Decision Making                               

  • Gain the skills for problem solving

  • Use creative thinking skills to cultivate the imagination

  • Establish criteria for solutions

  • Reduce stress and anxiety

Learning and Thinking                       

  • Skills for lifelong learning and thinking for yourself

  • Skills to unlock the art of learning and to see and think in new ways

  • Critical thinking and discernment skills

  • Gain understanding of the classical liberal arts heritage

Wisdom Seeking                               

  • Discern wisdom from knowledge while gaining prudence and good judgment

  • Skills to gain wisdom from the experience of others through skillful listening and question asking

  • Skills to identify and meet the people you want to learn from

Following Jesus       

  • Practice the skills to know and understand the life, teachings and wisdom of Jesus.

  • Learn to share the Gospel and be a disciple of Jesus the Christ.

  • Acquire tools for Bible study

  • How to transform culture through the teaching and spirit of Jesus

  • How to deal with rejection, hardship and suffering

 Worldview

  • Discover truth by seeing the world through the heart and mind of Jesus of Nazareth

  • Understand how a Christ-centered Biblical worldview compares and contrasts with other prevailing worldviews

  • Expand your worldview by learning from the sufferings, failures and successes of others

  • Examine how thoughts and beliefs impact self-concept and behavior

Ministry

  • How to lead Bible study groups

  • Make disciples who make disciples

  • Skills to help others discover joy and freedom

  • Skills to help others experience inner-healing and transformation through Christ

Entrepreneurial                               

  • How to develop your own livelihood

  • Transform dreams into realities through creative thinking, planning and sound decision-making

  • Learn the fundamentals of implementing a start-up plan

Citizenship

  • Gain ability to articulate the founding values and principles of the U.S.A.

  • Understand the principles of self-government

  • Articulate the system of education that produced the American founders.

  • Communicate the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship

Developing the Spiritual Disciplines and Attitudes

In our longer courses, such as the 40-Day Leadership Training Experience and Year on Mission and Leadership Quest, we strive to develop some of the spiritual disciplines and attitudes.

Spiritual Attitudes

Spiritual Disciplines

  • Humility

  • Compassion

  • Courage

  • Confidence

  • Appreciative

  • Initiative

  • Others-focused

  • Christ-centered

  • Silence

  • Solitude

  • Prayer

  • Meditation

  • Forgiveness

  • Worship

  • Study

  • Fasting