I have the honor to represent Tent Mission an organization that is over 50 years old, yet just starting out in the USA. Moreover, I am proud that Tent Mission is a Christian organization started by relatively poor farmer woodsmen from Northern Sweden and that our Mission and Vision was born of the Gospel.
Everything began with a burning desire to proclaim the Gospel in Sweden and the Nordic countries and then throughout the world. My father, Erik Gunnar Eriksson, was the simple evangelist who fully relied on God’s will and wherever he preached the gospel, it became a result for the kingdom of God.
On this website, you can read a short history about my father Erik Gunnar Erikson and also how he founded, through many diversions, Tent Mission, and then Star of Hope, the humanitarian arm of Tent Mission.
Our work is to help the people in the field do their work; the national workers, the pastors, the leaders all those who help the 20,000 children we support but also the communities where our kids live. Yes, all of us want to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and support local missions work. Then, count the blessings for God of all those who reach salvation through Tent Mission.
Of course for me as with the staff all around the globe, our work is more than just work or a calling it is a biblical mandate from the Gospel. We all strive to be a blessing so we may be a blessing to Christ.
Tent Mission has always existed but we will ramp up operations in the US in January 2019 and I am looking for likeminded people to join me and my husband Mark, to do as my father always said, “put faith into action”.
Together with Star of Hope and the social work we do we can change nations one salvation at a time.
Maria Eriksson Presson