About Us
TENT is a society founded in 1985, to train Christian workers in ministry and vocational skills.
OUR MISSION:
Achieve this vision by training women and men ministry workers in anthropology, theology, practical Biblical knowledge, community development, entrepreneurship, and technology skills for bi-vocational ministry in needy areas.
OUR VISION:
- To equip Christ-followers as tentmakers with Biblical knowledge, ministry methods, and technology skills to strengthen the Church in India.
MISSION - Achieve this vision by training women and men ministry workers in anthropology, theology, practical Biblical knowledge, community development, entrepreneurship, and technology skills for bi-vocational ministry in needy areas.
History
Training in Evangelism Needs and Technology (TENT) is an indigenous ministry founded in 1985 by Mrs. & Prof. B E Vijayam in Hyderabad, India. They received the inspiration from the Biblical model of Paul’s ministry method of tentmaking and an example set by Bishop Bunyan Joseph, Prof. Vijayam’s father, who followed the model of Paul. TENT was registered as a Society in 1985 under the Andhra Pradesh (Telangana Areas) Public Societies Registration Act. The purpose is to mobilize and equip pastors and evangelists with a twofold emphasis:
- Training Christian workers to communicate the good news of Jesus Christ
- Training in income-generating contextual technologies to make the Christian workers tentmakers
The goal of the ministry of TENT is
- To make grassroots workers partially or wholly self-supported for their work
- To promote holistic (spiritual, social and economic) development of the poor
