Ministry: Tentmaker Project
The TentMaker Project
From Nate Wilson
http://www.tentmakerproject.org
Micro-enterprise development is a fast-growing trend in mission strategies today. By extending modest loans to stimulate the productivity of small businesses, micro-enterprise development agencies offer financial help to the poor while minimizing dependency upon foreign money.
The TentMaker Project offers a model of this kind of development, using the resources of local churches to make the process work with low overhead, high repayment rates, and constant opportunities for discipleship. It grew out of a short-term mission trip to Uganda taken by a pastor in Carbondale, IL, & has been enthusiastically endorsed by long-term missionaries as they have seen the model in action.
Learn more at the ministry’s web site:
http://www.TentMakerProject.org
HIGHLIGHTS:
Profiles of micro-loan recipients: http://www.carbondalepca.com/tentma
[Photos, text, and video interviews - show how people's lives
have been impacted by small business financing loaned church-
to-church.]
Simulation of how it works:
http://www.carbondalepca.com/tentma
This document describes a simple group activity that can help Westerners begin to relate to the reality of poverty and the usefulness of micro-enterprise development. (in .PDF)
A Sample Policy Document:
http://www.carbondalepca.com/tentma
This policy statement produced by African leaders outlining the
logistics of church-based micro-loans. (in .PDF)
Nate Wilson is the servant-hearted man of God who led Missions-Catalyst (before it had that name) for ~ the first eight years.
To learn about their family:
http://www.NateWilsonFamily.Net
From Nate Wilson
http://www.tentmakerproject.org
Micro-enterprise development is a fast-growing trend in mission strategies today. By extending modest loans to stimulate the productivity of small businesses, micro-enterprise development agencies offer financial help to the poor while minimizing dependency upon foreign money.
The TentMaker Project offers a model of this kind of development, using the resources of local churches to make the process work with low overhead, high repayment rates, and constant opportunities for discipleship. It grew out of a short-term mission trip to Uganda taken by a pastor in Carbondale, IL, & has been enthusiastically endorsed by long-term missionaries as they have seen the model in action.
Learn more at the ministry’s web site:
http://www.TentMakerProject.org
HIGHLIGHTS:
Profiles of micro-loan recipients: http://www.carbondalepca.com/tentma
[Photos, text, and video interviews - show how people's lives
have been impacted by small business financing loaned church-
to-church.]
Simulation of how it works:
http://www.carbondalepca.com/tentma
This document describes a simple group activity that can help Westerners begin to relate to the reality of poverty and the usefulness of micro-enterprise development. (in .PDF)
A Sample Policy Document:
http://www.carbondalepca.com/tentma
This policy statement produced by African leaders outlining the
logistics of church-based micro-loans. (in .PDF)
Nate Wilson is the servant-hearted man of God who led Missions-Catalyst (before it had that name) for ~ the first eight years.
To learn about their family:
http://www.NateWilsonFamily.Net
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