TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luke, Dan Victor 
TI  - Astrategy For Engaging Youth Incross-Cultural, Tentmaking Ministry Inthe Evangelical Church Winning All, Nigeria
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Johannesburg, South Africa
PB  - South African Theological Seminary
N2  - Cross-cultural  tentmaking  is  not  a  new concept  in  the  arena  of  missions.  In it, professionals carry out mission work in a cross-cultural setting, gaining access to their target country or context and earning their livelihood through the labour of  their  hands  by  a  missions  strategy.  It  has  become  potent  and  handy  in  a world where the numbers of career missionaries continue to ebb, as many are denied  access  into  several  creative  access  countries  (countries  that  are  not open  to  the Gospel).  Added  to  the  challenge  of  access  denial is  the  dwindling nature of the world’s economy, particularly in developing countries. The  Evangelical  Church  Winning  All  (ECWA),  birthed  by  SIM,  a  mission organization founded  in  1893  through  the  daring  effort  of  three  young  men: Rowland  Bingham,  Thomas  Kent, and  Walter  Gowans,  changed  its  name  in 2010 to reflect its quest to engage the nations of the world in missions. Although as the Evangelical Church Winning All it has one of the largest missions arms in Nigeria,  it  is  not  able  to  realize  effectively  its  stated  quest  primarily  due  to  its current  missionary  workforce,  which  was  not  originally  intended  to  attend to such a global ministry scope. This  research identifies  lay  professional Nigerian Christian youth  as  the  ideal workforce to  help  ECWA  realize  its  objective  of  reaching  the  world  with  the Gospel. It  is  concluded  that  this  can  be accomplished through  cross-cultural tentmaking. This  study prescribes  a  strategy which  is  rooted  biblically  and theologically,  using  the  Apostle  Paul  as  a  model. Following  the LIM  research methodology, it also borrows from the social sciences where ethnography helps define  culture  and  human  behaviour,  providing  cross-cultural  inroads  for  the viii Gospel. In the end, the cross-cultural tentmaking mission strategy for ECWA is about  IDENTIFYING,  EQUIPPING,  and  ENGAGING  its  youth  for  the  task  of winning the nations of the world for Christ
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