Help your church identify and equip tentmakers, locally and abroad.

Tent South Africa comes alongside local churches to train facilitators and run a practical 6-week Go Discover small group. Go Discover introduces the tentmaker calling (often new language in South Africa) and helps members discern if God is calling them to live on mission through their work, right where they are, or in another place.

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What is “tentmaking”?

In many churches, “mission” is associated only with pastors or those who go into full-time ministry. Tentmaking is different.

 Tentmaking means living on mission through everyday work, using your profession, trade, business, skills, studies, or employment as a platform for Kingdom influence.

 It is not a label you force on people. It is a calling you help people recognize.

Why Go Discover?

Go Discover is a discernment journey.

It helps a church identify the people God is stirring and clarify:

  • What calling looks like for them

  • How to live mission faithfully in their current context

  • Whether God may be preparing them to serve as a tentmaker in their home town, or in another place

Go Discover is designed to give language, clarity, and next steps without hype, pressure, or guilt.

What is Go Discover?

Go Discover is a practical 6-week small group experience your church can run.

Each week combines:

  • Simple teaching

  • Guided discussion

  • Reflection that turns insight into action

 This is built for real church life, small groups, leadership cohorts, young adults, marketplace groups, and discipleship pathways.

TentSA Comes Alongside Churches

This is not TentSA “doing a program to your church.”

This is TentSA partnering with your church so you can equip your members.

 We train facilitators from your church. Your facilitators then host the 6-week Go Discover small group within your existing structures.

What TentSA provides:

  • Facilitator training and guidance (new in South Africa, built for local context)

  • A clear, repeatable small group framework

  • Practical support to help you launch a pilot and multiply

What the church provides:

  • Participants (members ready for discipleship and clarity)

  • A facilitator(s) who can lead a small group

  • A place in your calendar and community to run the 6-week journey

Outcomes (what churches will see)

Churches that run Go Discover can expect:

  • Members who connect Sunday faith to Monday work

  • A shared language for tentmaking and everyday mission

  • Clearer identification of those called to deeper equipping and next steps

  • A repeatable pathway that can multiply through trained facilitators

  • Practical discipleship that strengthens your church’s mission locally and beyond

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What GO Discover is NOTeal act.

Go Discover is not:

  • A recruitment tool that pulls people away from the local church

  • A pressure campaign to relocate

  • A program that glorifies career success or wealth

Sometimes obedience means staying and living mission faithfully in your current postcode. Sometimes it means going. Go Discover helps people discern with wisdom

Want to explore Go Discover for your church?

We will help you choose a pilot size, select and train facilitators, and plan an easy launch.

Go Discover facilitators program TentSA

Frequently Asked Questions

  • The purpose is to equip selected leaders to confidently facilitate the Go Discover journey so participants experience:

    • Identity in God

    • Personal growth and ownership

    • Confidence in calling

    • Practical planning for mission

    • Activation as tentmakers

  • Go Discover is an entry-point journey that helps people recognize they are already positioned by God, connect faith and work, and discover their Kingdom assignment and next steps (often realizing they may already be tentmakers).

  • No. Go Discover teaches that mission is bigger than geography. It includes going to your workplace, industry, neighborhood, and unreached spaces through competence and character. Going globally can be part of the story if called, but it starts where you stand.

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  • The selection criteria include humility, emotional maturity, teachability, consistency, spiritual depth, and good listening ability.

  • A Level 1 facilitator should be able to:

    • Understand Go Discover philosophy

    • Facilitate each module confidently

    • Lead discussions safely

    • Manage group dynamics

    • Use workbook/materials properly

    • Guide reflection exercises

  • It addresses internal tensions (stuck, lack of meaning, called but unsure how, feeling too ordinary, not fitting church ministry models) and external tensions (pressure at work, ethical tensions, isolation, lack of discipleship for professionals, no roadmap for faith and work integration).