A cross-cultural witness who works at a paying, usually secular, job. Often they are able to gain entry into “closed” countries which restrict traditional mission efforts. Tentmakers rarely make tents for a living, like the apostle Paul did, but they all should have the intention to further God’s work.

Can refer to the length of a missionary’s time commitment to a mission organization. Many career missionaries serve successive terms of two to five years. Often they spend a period of months in their home countries between terms, usually called a furlough. A short-term can be as short as two weeks or as long as three years.

Also called T4T, the training program developed by John Chen that led to the largest Church Planting Movement in history.