Does LAM relate to any tentmakers?
The Latin America Mission encourages innovative alternatives for raising financial support, deploying missionaries representing four types of “tentmakers.” The most common case is the employment of the spouse, which provides supplemental income often used for children’s education. Many LAM missionaries receive some compensation from their associate ministry-seminaries, universities, schools, churches and national missions-that we factor into their total compensation package. A few LAM missionaries hold part-time jobs providing supplemental support, generating contacts for evangelism and discipleship and opening doors for ministry. There are also several LAM missionaries that came to the Mission with partial financial support from other sources such as retirement and inheritance. In each case, missionaries make full disclosure of the tent-making activity to the Mission and their associate ministries, and full member care and Mission services are provided.
