UNCONVENTIONAL CONNECTIONS
The following three experiences lllustrate unique but simple ways tentmakers have used their profession to connect with people for God.
PRAYER SKETCHING Brian
 A young girl watched me intently, but at a distance. As an artist, I had stopped along the side of the street and honored her two friends by asking to draw their portraits. It was an opportunity to befriend two young strangers and to encourage them with a sense of their value, their uniqueness. It was my privilege to affirm them, to treat them with honor. They drank it up with shy pride!
I don't know whether I did it for their benefit or for my own blessing, because I thoroughly enjoy any chance to reach out and relate. To read more
THE BOOKSHELF Mohammad
 I was young and athletic, so the cold rain didn't really bother me. In fact, I was enjoying the winter shower as I headed to my friend’s house to get a good deal on his old Karate suit, since it didn’t fit him anymore.
He wasn’t home. His mother was, though. She stood in the doorway, eyeing me through thick glasses as she plied me with questions about why I wanted to see her son. Her gaze felt far too long before she finally motioned down the street, as if I was a detective being sent to search a stranger’s house for a suspect. “He’s at the neighbor’s.” To read more
A BETTER WEAPON Byard
 I held the retired officer’s prized possession, a Winchester sniper rifle, in the air. That night he had told us story after story of all the people he had killed with this weapon, all while perched in trees and hiding among rocks along the high mountain passes. He was deadly, and dead earnest, in describing his “heroic” deeds.
By chance or Providence I was staying in this stranger’s home in the mountains, on his floor, next to his bed, intent on fulfilling my assignment as a writer-tentmaker. To read more
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